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Edita + pFTP

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Nov 22, 2006
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I've uploaded Beta version 0.3 of pFTP:
http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pftp.htm

I believe I fixed the problem with two ".." entries, got all the
resize logic working, change (remote) attributes, and it now shows
hidden files (on the remote site).

Assumption #1:
  pFTP will be installed into same location as edita.exw/e, hence:
	pFTP can read/update edita.edb
	Edita can read/update pFTP.edb
	pFTP can invoke Edita if not already running
	Edita can invoke pFTP if not already running
	pFTP and Edita will "speak the same language".

Now, what mods are needed to Edita "FTP-enabled"?
What buttons/options are missing from pFTP?
What buttons/options are missing from Edita?
Do you want to flag files as 'local=master', 'local=none', 
'remote=master', [remote=none makes no sense, does it?]
 and/or directly tie local<=>remote?
(Perhaps I should explain that: local=none would mean 'edit it in a  
 temp directory under a unique[idx'd] name'. Eg If I edit two 
 index.htm, then Edita will show index.htm[2] (or maybe index[2].htm)
 for the second, but put it back where it belongs on save/close. No 
 equivalent for remote.)
Better, do you want to mark selected remote files[&sites] as
'editable'?
(obviously there's little point allowing download/edit[a] of .zips)

What safeguards are needed such that if either or both crash, then 
after a system reboot things generally pick up where they left off?
(I am of course already thinking of storing state/to-do lists in one 
 or  both of those .edb files, more/very specific details are 
 required, and actually I'm asking myself that question mostly.)

Basically, I think I've licked the hard bit, someone else write spec.
One thing I will say, is that while I feel no need to allow someone in
Edita to enter ftp site/port/username/password on-the-fly, it is not
technically difficult to swap between apps like I do with print 
preview, window painter, and database viewer/verify, virtually 
seamlessly.

Meanwhile, I'm off to play with treeviews for a while, no doubt 
there'll be an associated round of updates I'll want to make to Edita

Regards,
Pete