From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-07-22T04:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Refactoring Tycho API - Opinions wanted

>> http://handhelds.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/rb-pim/
>
> You're eventually targeting the handheld? Coolness.

I was targeting the iPAQ before; but UI kept bothering me.
It's just that my contacts list need better maintainability and
flexibility that I picked up the topic again. and then you interfered
:)

>> app.find_note vs app.find_topic vs topic.find_note
>>  this distinction necessary? isn't it 'just' an additional
>> lter? (you probably have a reason for this, I'd like to know)
>
> The distinction between notes and topics is necessary. Think of
> the Unix find, how it can do "-type d" or "-type f" for an analogy.

does it?
I'll accept it as classification; notes should be able to fit more than
one class/topic, I suppose?
(does this match the aspects from Clifford?)

>> Dunno whether I "get it". Part of it, at least :)
>
> The version on rubyforge *should* work -- it's just old and not full-
> featured by any means. But you can do searching and sorting and
> add/delete notes and such. And it comes with several hundred
> notes already -- all the 'ri' data, a snapshot of rubyforge, and the
> TOC
> for _The Ruby Way_. Also a few little demo notes.

trying to get foxruby working now...

>> See some 'find' CLI session example below.
>
> This is the sort of thing Tycho would be good for, *except* that you
> would either have to enter the addresses free-form or wait for some
> kind of "template" or "field-oriented" feature to be added (which is on
> my list).

some things are free form. I play a trick so address/code/city in a
Location are 'always there', but arbitrary key/value pairs can be added
(you have always funny info about some persons that won't be in any
fixed list of keys (attributes)).

PS: as coincidence, I saw "Lost in Translation" last Tuesday, which
features on one of your screenshots :)

+--- Kero ------------------------- kero@chello@nl ---+
|  all the meaningless and empty words I spoke        |
|                       Promises -- The Cranberries   |
+--- M38c --- http://members.chello.nl/k.vangelder ---+