Re: file info feature

> So for things like pim/pbgroups.dat the column would contain a brief
> description of the purpose of the file like "Supported phonebook groups".

Good idea :-)
 
> An alternative would be to have the description appear as a tooltip instead
> of adding a column, this would work better with the new file view.

Columns are nicer because you can sort by them and you can take
screenshots.

> Each file would be have a type (unknown, binary, text, audio, image, video)
> the file icon would represent the type.

Note that we can't work out the type unless we suck the file over.

> I have some ideas about implementation, but I'd like to make sure that the
> ideas and features are OK before going into those details.

Sounds good to me.  I suggest a file in the resource directory.  If you want
to fluff up your resume you can use XML format.  Try writing a non-trivial
amount of the file before doing any code.  Here is a starter using mailbox
header format with commentary after pound signs:

Pattern: /sms/inbox*.dat              # filename pattern
Phones: com_lgvx*,com_audiovox1234    # which phones do this
Exclude: com_lgvx1234                 # except this model
Summary: Incoming SMS messages
Description:  Received SMS messages.  They are initially in
   numerical order, but holes will appear as messages are
   deleted.
Analyser: self.protocolclass.sms_in

Note that matching patterns could occur multiple times.  For example
all the phones have the nvm files but they mean completely different
things on each model.  I don't know how you'd express the type (binary,
text, audio etc) since you could put in the above but in many circumstances
you have to have the file.  Maybe a display submenu with options of
'auto' (ie we pick the best possible format), 'analyser', 'hex', 'text'
etc would work?

Roger


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