Re: Libnotify support

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/26/05 01:27:05, Johan Brannlund wrote:
> --- Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se> wrote:
>
> > On 07/20/05 10:50:26, Johan Brannlund wrote:
> > > For instance, what if several messages arrive simultaneously?
>
> > Good question - you have got a decision to make!
>
> Right, that definitely requires some thinking. I'll try to put
> something together soon and then people can try it out and we'll see
> what they think.
>
> For now, my question was mostly a practical programming matter,
> though:
> once I have the message pointed to by first_unread, how do I get the
> other ones? I was expecting to find a pointer to the next message in
> the LibBalsaMessage struct, but didn't see one. I may be missing
> something obvious... should I use bndx_select_next_with_flag() ?

You should also consider whether you really want to use first_unread -  
perhaps you want to ignore "old" unread messages and just find out the  
most recently appended ones - would you agree? struct count_info should  
probably be extended with a "guint last_msg_count" or an equivalent one  
to keep track of that.

Re bns_select_next_with_flag(): Searching for unread messages is done  
best with libbalsa_mailbox_search_iter() and friends.  
bndx_select_next_with_flag() has way too many side effects.

Pawel