On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:27:59PM +0000, Matthew Allum wrote: > Hi; > > I've quickly hacked togeather a couple of simple utilitys for the treo > 600 with the help of the very nice pilot-link lib. > > > 'treo-grab-imgs' will transfer any camera images from the phone to the > current directory as jpegs. get it from; > > http://freedesktop.org/~mallum/treo-grab-imgs.c Seems the Treo 600 does indeed do things quite differently than the PalmOne devices. That's too bad, modifying pilot-foto to work also with the Treo is non-trivial. =( Musings on this and pilot-foto: - No way to delete any or all images from PDA - No way to install images - Despite being ugly Palm-side, the user experience should be consistent across photo apps - Since that's not possible here, this should probably be treo-foto or something similar and behave as closely as possible to the pilot-foto app for now. - Whenever it happens that a daemon feeds conduits which use XML to store most data (the images themselves would be jpeg, naturally), there will probably need to be seperate conduits because the Palm-side way of handling these things is wildly divergent. Config should be common though. Sclarg. > 'treo-grab-calls' will tranfer your call logs and dump them to stdout > as csv data. get it from; > > http://freedesktop.org/~mallum/treo-grab-calls.c This seems to be one of those things that would only be useful to you, as a user of a smartphone PDA. It may apply to others, but I can't know if other models of Treo work this way, if non-Treo smartphones work this way, etc. I didn't look at this one, but I can imagine wanting to be able to clear out the call lists. > Both pieces of code are in a 'works for me' state. I'll happily > improve based on any feedback. I'm mostly blathering above for the benefit of David, Nicholas, and a couple of others who are aware of the Lunatic Plan, such that it is. Following the Lunatic Plan model, you would automagically download the call lists (accounting for the fact that you might have part of the list already from a previous sync and that the phone might have had old entires removed), and scribbled out to something in your home directory in XML format. You might then, if so configured, throw out anything that you have concluded is too old to care about. If you need it in CSV, some other thing would be responsible for spitting out the XML, no PDA need be connected to do it. Obviously nothing is set up for that yet and it involves changing lots of things for lots of things. And then there are logistics issues like .. maybe you actually want to talk to the PDA directly rather than some XML thing for all of the reasons you might want to do that. There's also the bandward compatibility issue and a whole bunch of others. All the same, this is what I want to see. =)
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