Re: FW: New developer - Trying to add Kyocera K433L support

> Take a look at the save functionality in com_lgvx4400.py and you can see all 
> of the rewriting of entries for even a "trivial" change.  Basically 
> everything is written back to the phone as far as I can see.  

That is a feature of the LG phonebook protocol.  It is record oriented and
has a cursor.  The only operations available are to advance to the next
entry (which wraps around at the end), reset to begining (which doesn't
work reliably), update the entry currently at the cursor, delete the
entry at the cursor, and add an entry.  Deleting or adding entries 
causes shifts in the entry ids.  Consequently the rather convoluted
logic is to ensure that we always do safe things and have deterministic
results, and made it work on all LG phones.

> And there are comments that some of the calls cause a reset.  

Examples are updating the speed dials or group files.

> After I got read 
> working I exported to vCard format and now if I screw up I can easily 
> restore the phone book by re-importing the vCards and using that to get my 
> phone back to a "last known good" state.

For the LG phones you can take a backup of the pim directory and restore
it later.  Make sure to reboot after the restore.  That gets you back to
exact earlier known good state.

> There is a paint problem with the log windows, 

Actually there isn't.  It used to always used to ensure that the last
output is visible (ie around a page full).  That consumes significant
extra CPU especially at high rates of output.  Now it does the
default behaviour which is to scroll the window on each page of
output.

It is just a plain wx.TextCtrl being used which isn't too appropriate
for the task.  I'd gladly replace it with a custom widget if someone
cares to write one.

>    python analyser.py protocol.txt

BTW if you don't provide a filename it will read the contents of
the clipboard.  That can make getting from notepad to analyser
even quicker.

Roger


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