Re: [Evolution-hackers] ebook API

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:31, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > e_book_async_get_book_view(...) doesn't allow me to specify the maximum
> > number of records, whereas e_book_get_book_view(...) does.  Should the
> > async version be extended to take the extra argument?  This looks like a
> > trivial patch to me.
> 
> Yeah, that was basically laziness on my part.  I didn't expect many
> people (anyone, really) to use the async api so I figured it'd be less
> work to not change the parameters from the old get_book_view ebook call.

Would you accept a patch to change this?

> As Dan mentioned, a book view is definitely what you want if you want to
> avoid blocking the UI.  The old CardCursor stuff basically fit someplace
> in between the current get_contacts() and get_book_view() on the
> ease-of-use/blocking-the-ui spectrum.

My EBookView code is crashing inside e_book_get_book_view() at the
moment :(  Once I have the disk space to rebuild e-d-s (epiphany took
over for a day) I'll get a stack trace.

Regards,
Ross
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