Re: telling a data engine to reload a source

2012-02-09 Thread Weng Xuetian
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Eric Mesa wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> >> >> the plasmoid (almost) never tells the engine when to reload. how can it >> when >> it is simply a visualization of the data? if the visualization knows such >> things, it is not long

Re: telling a data engine to reload a source

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Mesa
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > the plasmoid (almost) never tells the engine when to reload. how can it > when > it is simply a visualization of the data? if the visualization knows such > things, it is not longer a visualization. if the dataengine does not know > such >

Re: telling a data engine to reload a source

2012-02-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 13:56:32 Eric Mesa wrote: > I have a data engine that grabs some data off the web, chugs it and then > presents it to my plasmoid. How could my plasmoid tell the data engine > that its data is now out of date and it should regrab its data? Even > better would be the a

telling a data engine to reload a source

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Mesa
I have a data engine that grabs some data off the web, chugs it and then presents it to my plasmoid. How could my plasmoid tell the data engine that its data is now out of date and it should regrab its data? Even better would be the ability to tell it to update only one of its 20 sources. Thanks