Re: getting started question

Great thanks, I had mistaken the inherited phone for the phone i was
replacing in the file.

Sandy

On 8/13/07, Nathan Hjelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks to me like your Phone class is inheriting from itself which is a problem. Your phone module should inherit from com_phone.Phone or the module for a phone that is similar to yours. Welcome to python hell ;)
>
> As for adding the phone, __init__.py is the proper file to add the phone to.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Monday, August 13, 2007, at 02:57PM, "Sandy Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm interesting in helping to add support for my samsung m500 phone.
> >I'm having a little trouble getting started however.
> >
> >I followed the directions in dev-doc/phonespec.html, but got confused
> >when it mentioned:
> >
> >> To make your phone appear in the list of supported phones edit guiwidgets.py. Find the
> >> ConfigDialog class (~ln 340) and add your new phone to the list, the second field in the list
> >> is the filename of the new file you just created without the extension.
> >
> >I added the two files (com_samsungsphm500.py and p_samsungsphm500.p
> >and changed the model names in the files), generated the third for the
> >phone, then I couldn't figure out what to do about the above line, so
> >I went into __init__.py and created an entry for the phone there. This
> >added the phone to the list in the settings dialog, but I get an
> >exception when it tries load the module.
> >
> >I can recreate this error by simply going to the console and typing:
> >
> >>>> import phones.com_samsungsphm500
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> >  File "C:\home\aiv\phonestuff\bitpim\src\phones\com_samsungsphm500.py",
> >line 30, in <module>
> >    class Phone(com_samsungsphm500.Phone):
> >NameError: name 'com_samsungsphm500' is not defined
> >
> >
> >Is there someplace I need to define this? am I missing something? is
> >the how-to file out of date? I feel like I'm doing something stupid.
> >I'm afraid I'm new to python :( but know other languages.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Sandy
> >
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