[Microbit-Python] A native editor

[Naomi Ceder]

Ooops! My apologies! I see from looking at the code that new, open and save
are not yet implemented, just stubbed out, it appears.

I misunderstood that. Never mind.

Naomi

On 6 December 2015 at 16:43, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reference Carlos. That makes sense...
>
> At any rate, when I removed that permission, the warning of course went
> away. However it still coudn't find my micro:bit, since the port objects
> have neither a productId nor a vendorId on my system, only a path. When I
> matched on the path to what I knew to be the right path, I could get a repl
> working just fine. Which would imply that a different way of finding the
> right port is needed.
>
> I suppose the next thing is to look at the load/save issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Naomi
>
> On 6 December 2015 at 16:25, Carlos P.A. <carlos.p.a.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like RequestFileSystem might only be supported in ChromeOS, is that
>> the platform you've been using Nicholas?
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/apps-dev/LEne7qedZrc/7ZEY0uwfDgAJ
>>
>> On 6 December 2015 at 22:09, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sadly I can't get the extension to work on either OSX or Linux -
>>> instead, the extension reports
>>>
>>>  There were warnings when trying to install this extension:
>>>
>>>    - 'fileSystem.requestFileSystem' is not allowed for specified
>>>    platform.
>>>
>>>
>>> So the result for me is that the new, open, and save functions don't do
>>> anything at all, and the repl says it can't find the microbit.
>>>
>>> I'm not finding any explanations of line, but I've attached a screen
>>> shot of the warning...
>>>
>>> I'm also not seeing any setting for Chrome that would seem to help.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Naomi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 December 2015 at 15:15, Carlos P.A. <carlos.p.a.87 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excellent work Nicholas!
>>>>
>>>> Will the pluggin also automatically work when the interface is accessed
>>>> from the https://www.microbit.co.uk/create-code python link? (once it
>>>> is implemented in the webiste).
>>>>
>>>> As a small suggestion, probably with a low priority, is that having
>>>> some visual feedback on the page that the program is being flashed would be
>>>> ideal, even better if there was a tiny progress bar on the button.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>> On 6 December 2015 at 20:34, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Basically, this:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MGFVuZrrs
>>>>>
>>>>> ...is a first draft and the source code is here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/ntoll/python-native-editor
>>>>>
>>>>> There's no documentation and I'll be working on it over the coming days
>>>>> with a view to showing it on Wednesday to a bunch of teachers.
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI - working out how to flash the device took several tortuous days.
>>>>> Chrome has a USB API that was documented to appear to be exactly what I
>>>>> needed (pushing file based data to the device). I spent far too much
>>>>> time learning about USB and getting permission to write to the device
>>>>> to
>>>>> work.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the end I gave up when I realised there was a really easy hack that
>>>>> was right in front of my nose... just copy the damn .hex file to the
>>>>> device via the built-in file-system API.
>>>>>
>>>>> It worked first time..! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> That's several hours of my time I'll never get back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Early days. Collaboration welcome!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nicholas.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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