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| akiva-thinkpad | !ping | 10:05 |
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| ubot5 | pong! | 10:05 |
| akiva-thinkpad | cool | 10:05 |
| akiva-thinkpad | ports no longer blocked | 10:05 |
| aquarius | OK, who, other than Ken, knows about the Content Hub? I can't work out for the life of me how to use it :( | 18:09 |
| ahayzen | aquarius, what are you trying todo with it? | 18:33 |
| aquarius | ahayzen, I have a list of the filenames of files in my app's data folder, and I show them in a ListView. I would like tapping a filename to show a list of apps on the phone which I can share that file to, and then choosing an app to open that file in that app. | 18:51 |
| ahayzen | ok | 18:51 |
| aquarius | ahayzen, and I cannot work out how. A ContentPeerPicker presumably has something to do with it. | 18:51 |
| ahayzen | yeah it will do... i've only done an import (need to still implement export for music)..but this may be useful.. | 18:52 |
| aquarius | Also, every example I can find shows a Page with a ContentPeerPicker in it, and the app pushes that Page onto a PageStack. But my app doesn't have a PageStack, it has Tabs, so I don't know how to even show the Picker, even if I could get it working, which I can't. :) | 18:52 |
| ahayzen | https://code.launchpad.net/~ken-vandine/+junk/hub-exporter | 18:52 |
| aquarius | Yeah, I've done import; Readability appears in the browser's Share menu. It's being a source for sharing (without being a source for other apps that want to import a file) that I can't work out. | 18:53 |
| aquarius | Yup, I've been looking at the hub exporter code, which as far as I can tell is the nearest thing to actual documentation of this stuff, but it's pretty impenetrable :( | 18:53 |
| ahayzen | so what have you got working so far? | 18:54 |
| aquarius | nothing. The actual ContentHub code is complaining about not having peers, but Ken's hub-importer doesn't even *mention* PeerModelLoader, so I have no idea where one of those comes from | 18:55 |
| aquarius | I can't even get started -- I can work out so little about this stuff that I don't even know what I don't know, if you see what I mean! | 18:55 |
| ahayzen | he has a ContentPeerPicker {} | 18:56 |
| ahayzen | IIRC the way his works is to load up activeTransfer with the items to transfer | 18:57 |
| ahayzen | then it then picker is shown | 18:57 |
| ahayzen | then it calls __exportItems(url) | 18:57 |
| aquarius | He does, and I have one too, but when I try to use it, I get "file:///usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Content/ContentPeerPicker.qml:229: TypeError: Cannot read property 'peers' of null"... and that code line is "model: customPeerModelLoader ? customPeerModelLoader.item.peers : peerModelLoader.item.peers"... that is, it's expecting to have a PeerModelLoader or a CustomPeerModelLoader, and Ken doesn't | 18:58 |
| aquarius | have one, so I don't get how any of it works :) | 18:58 |
| ahayzen | ugh i fear i'm going to have to figure this out for music soon as well :-) | 19:01 |
| * ahayzen wonders if that is a type "customer" https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/Ubuntu.Content.ContentPeerPicker/#customerPeerModelLoader-prop | 19:03 | |
| ahayzen | *typo lol | 19:03 |
| aquarius | I have been assuming that that's meant to be "custom", yeah :) | 19:03 |
| ahayzen | it says *optional* | 19:03 |
| aquarius | but that is far from the worst fault in the documentation | 19:03 |
| aquarius | ya, I *think* that if you want to provide your own peermodelloader you can set that to override the system one | 19:04 |
| aquarius | but I don't seem to *have* the system one, and I don't know how to set it up, because the hub-importer never mentions it! | 19:04 |
| ahayzen | when you look at this page https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/Ubuntu.Content/ your just like which Content* thing do i want?! | 19:04 |
| aquarius | this stuff is totally indecipherable; the docs are either low-level API docs or high-level handwavy "the content hub is for exchanging files between apps" stuff. There are no explanations of *how to use it* :( | 19:05 |
| ahayzen | what does you code look like currently? | 19:05 |
| aquarius | http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/11868377/ | 19:06 |
| aquarius | but that's not useful | 19:06 |
| aquarius | because I'm literally just altering stuff at random ;) | 19:06 |
| aquarius | and clicking the listitem throws "ContentPeerPicker.qml:229: TypeError: Cannot read property 'peers' of null" | 19:06 |
| ahayzen | "ContentType.Uknown" https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/Ubuntu.Content.ContentType/ | 19:08 |
| ahayzen | who wrote these docs ? lol | 19:08 |
| aquarius | is there an app which can share a file to other apps, so I can look at the source? mzanetti's Tagger does it, I think, but I don't understand that either :) | 19:08 |
| ahayzen | yeah camera, gallery do as well IIRC | 19:09 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, huh? you mean content hub? | 19:09 |
| ahayzen | yup | 19:09 |
| aquarius | mzanetti, I do | 19:09 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, ~mzanetti/+junk/contenthubtest | 19:10 |
| mzanetti | this is a test app I use when I do something with contenthub | 19:10 |
| aquarius | ooh, that sounds useful ;) | 19:10 |
| mzanetti | it can share and receive anything | 19:10 |
| mzanetti | not 100% finished yet | 19:10 |
| aquarius | thank you! I shall look at that | 19:10 |
| mzanetti | I plan to publish to store once it's ready... but should work fine for most parts already | 19:10 |
| ahayzen | aquarius, also just found this which is a text only exporter http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ken-vandine/+junk/hub-text-exporter/view/head:/Main.qml which looks quite simple compared to the others | 19:12 |
| aquarius | mzanetti, what's the difference between "share" and "export"? | 19:15 |
| ahayzen | haha | 19:15 |
| aquarius | that's in the content hub api, it's not a peculiarity of mzanetti's app. But nothing describes what the difference is! | 19:16 |
| ahayzen | i did know the difference at one point... | 19:16 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, export is to "save" a file, share is to post it to facebook etc | 19:19 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, depending on which one you select you'll notice different apps showing up in the ContentPeerPicker | 19:19 |
| ahayzen | mzanetti, how does that filter it? by the type of content? | 19:20 |
| mzanetti | two things. ContentType and handler (share vs export) | 19:20 |
| ahayzen | ah ok so by having destination: [music] .. we only appear under export IIRC ? | 19:21 |
| mzanetti | not necessarily... every app accepting content can specify both | 19:21 |
| mzanetti | you can also write an app to share music | 19:22 |
| ahayzen | yeah i need to make music a source of music at some point | 19:22 |
| ahayzen | so then you could go from the Clock and pick a track for your alarm | 19:22 |
| ahayzen | or your ringtone whatever | 19:23 |
| aquarius | since my app is basically like the file manager, I think I'd want a combination of both, but I don't know how to do that either.. | 19:26 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, for sending things to other apps you need: the apparmor policy content_exchange_source | 19:28 |
| mzanetti | in your app have a "share" button, onClicked show a ContentPeerPicker with contentType: ContentType.All (or restrict to whatever) and handler ContentType.Share | 19:29 |
| mzanetti | onPeerPicked, create a new ContentItem, set the url property to your file and and set it's state to Charged | 19:30 |
| aquarius | ok, that makes sense; let me try that | 19:31 |
| mzanetti | then you can add a "save" or "open with..." button and do exactly the same, but set the picker's handler property to ContentHandler.Destination | 19:33 |
| mzanetti | for receiving content it's a bit different then... | 19:33 |
| aquarius | Simplest imaginable approach: all I want to do is show a ContentPeerPicker (I'm not even trying to do the transfer yet, so we'll screw up when a peer is picked), code at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/11868561/ and it throws error "ContentPeerPicker.qml:229: TypeError: Cannot read property 'peers' of null" on startup... presumably because I don't set a PeerModel? Or something? Confused | 19:42 |
| mzanetti | aquarius, hmm... are you running it on the desktop? | 19:50 |
| aquarius | ah. I am. That may be it. I'll try it on the phone, then... | 19:51 |
| aquarius | same error... | 19:54 |
| aquarius | ContentPeerPicker10.qml:186: TypeError: Cannot read property 'peers' of null | 19:55 |
| aquarius | let me try your contenthubtest and work out what's different :) | 20:12 |
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