Re: Functionality of Controls

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Lutz,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Lutz Mueller wrote:
> The CVS-version of GnoCam now uses bonobo extensively - there is a
> bonobo-moniker-camera that handles urls like
> "camera://camera/032774.jpeg". Through this moniker, you are able to get
>  - "IDL:Bonobo/Stream:1.0"
>  - "IDL:Bonobo/Storage:1.0"
>  - "IDL:Bonobo/Control:1.0"
>  - everything else through the moniker-extender

	Nice work - where do I get gnocam from ?

> The control has a menu for the configuration of the camera/file/folder
> (for example "delete all" or "protect image", depending on the
> functionality of your digital camera). In addition, it will display
> the contents of the folder or, in case of a file, the file through the
> moniker-extender. Here my question:
>
> Which control should give the user the possibility to save the file to the
> disk (that is, creating the entries in /menu/File/)? Is it
> 1) the highest level program (for example "moniker-test"),
> 2) the bonobo-moniker-camera, or
> 3) the lowest level program (in my case, EOG)?

	Well; I think there are several possibilities, I would imagine
that a good place to put it is inside eog, ie. just using the Storage
interface to create a stream and store it on the camera if possible - how
does that sound ?

	Regards,

		Michael.

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