Hey Stefan, That's great!! This is going faster than expected :-)
Cheers, Philipp On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> wrote: > Committed another patch, this time there is one thing to note: > 1) File.renameTo behaves differently on Linux and Windows. On Linux if the > destination file exists, it will be overwritten. On Windows the rename is > silently discarded if the destination name already exists. To fix this, I've > started to check to see if destination.exists() beforehand and deleting it. > I haven't changed this for all plugins though. > Managed to get a local and Amazon S3 backend working, awesome!! On to more > shell enhancements. > Thanks, > Stefan > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ok, sorry about this but I accidentally committed to the mainline branch >> (new to Bzr). From now on you'll see my changes at >> lp:~ubuntu-iamnafets/syncany/windows. Still a lot to work out, but making a >> solid start. >> >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I've made some progress which I'll be committing (though I'd suggest you >>> avoid installing it unless you are privy to removing the com registration as >>> it will create obnoxious icons on every file at the moment. I'm going to >>> move forward to utilize TortoiseOverlays.dll which should prevent us from >>> having collisions with people using Tortoise{SVN,BZR,Git,etc} as Windows >>> currently only supports a small number (12?) of icon overlays and will take >>> advantage of all the compatibility code they've written for Vista, XP, and >>> Windows 7. >>> >>> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've started, but it's mainly me getting familiar with the API's and COM >>>> programming in general. Tomorrow (Monday) is a holiday in the US and I'm >>>> looking forward to getting some good work time in (I've had visitors this >>>> weekend). I'll be posting my progress to my branch and will make periodic >>>> announcements. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Stefan >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Philipp Heckel >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hey Stefan, >>>>> >>>>> How is the Windows Explorer Integration coming? Did you make any >>>>> progress? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Philipp >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Philipp Heckel >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > Hey everyone, >>>>> > >>>>> > I already sent his information to Stefan yesterday, but I think it >>>>> > might be interesting for other potential Mac and Windows version >>>>> > makers: >>>>> > >>>>> > ----------- snip ---------- >>>>> > The core thing that's missing for the Windows version is the >>>>> > integration in the Windows Explorer -- so the little blue and green >>>>> > icons that indicate that something is going on in the background. On >>>>> > Linux, I could just use the GPL'd Dropbox extension for the linux >>>>> > file >>>>> > manager Nautilus, -- on Windows, this extension has to be coded from >>>>> > scratch. >>>>> > >>>>> > The Windows Explorer extension must be written in C or C++ I think. >>>>> > Well there is an API for it, and I have really no idea how to do it, >>>>> > because I have no idea how to write proper code in C ... >>>>> > >>>>> > Here are a little more details (in case you're interested): >>>>> > >>>>> > The basic communication between Windows explorer and Syncany should >>>>> > be >>>>> > like this: >>>>> > WinExplorer "Plugin"/"Handler" <----------TCP Socket---------> >>>>> > Syncany Server >>>>> > >>>>> > ^^ This is how the Linux version works, and how the Windows/Mac >>>>> > version should therefore also work. >>>>> > >>>>> > For that to work, you have to: >>>>> > 1) add a couple of registry keys (= for each overlay icon one key, i. >>>>> > one for "Up-to-date", one for "Syncing" and one for "conflict") >>>>> > 2) implement three Explorer API methods: GetOverlayHandler, >>>>> > GetPriority und IsMemberOf (see [1] for details) >>>>> > >>>>> > IsMemberOf checks for every file that is displayed in the Explorer, >>>>> > whether or not this file displays a certain overlay icon, i.e it >>>>> > checks >>>>> > 1) whether file X is member of the group "Up-to-date" >>>>> > 2) whether file X is member of the group "Syncing" >>>>> > 3) and so on ... >>>>> > >>>>> > As you can see this is quite inefficient, but that's how Microsoft >>>>> > does it... >>>>> > >>>>> > Here is the MSDN entry of Microsoft: >>>>> > [1] >>>>> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144123%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >>>>> > >>>>> > And here is a complete implementation of TortoiseSVN: >>>>> > >>>>> > http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#XJa9F1p-bAg/trunk/src/TortoiseShell/IconOverlay.cpp&q=IShellIconOverlayIdentifier%20tortoise%20ismemberof&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc >>>>> > >>>>> > A sample communication between the Syncany server and the Explorer >>>>> > plugin would look like this: >>>>> > CLIENT > get_emblems >>>>> > CLIENT > path <tab> C:\Users\username\Syncany-Folder\ >>>>> > File12.jpg >>>>> > CLIENT > done >>>>> > SERVER < ok >>>>> > SERVER < emblems <tab> syncing >>>>> > SERVER < done >>>>> > >>>>> > Find attached a small PHP script that demonstrates how the >>>>> > communication works (on linux -- but i guess the windows version >>>>> > works >>>>> > similarly) >>>>> > ----------- snip ---------- >>>>> > >>>>> > Cheers, >>>>> > Philipp >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >> All, >>>>> >> I'm working on a Windows port of Syncany, starting with the shell >>>>> >> extension >>>>> >> then moving on to other parts of the code. If anyone is interested >>>>> >> in >>>>> >> helping or has some free cycles for the effort, let me know. >>>>> >> Thanks, >>>>> >> Stefan >>>>> >> -- >>>>> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>>>> >> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >>>>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks, >>>> Stefan Mai ([email protected]) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Stefan Mai ([email protected]) >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Stefan Mai ([email protected]) > > > > -- > Thanks, > Stefan Mai ([email protected]) > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
