Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed-devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 29

[Karsten Hilbert]

>>> Another scenario is that there is a network failure or server failure,
>>> during the day,
> 
> I think Syan has an excellent point, and I remember we discussed this already 
> a year ago.
I do understand the use case.

> I would propose the client stores it's state in an XML file of the format
> <path>
> author/location/timestamp/server
>         <module>
>                 <widget>
>                 </widget>
>         </module>
> </path>
> This file is erased when the client exists cleanly.
> When a client starts up, it checks whether a file with
> <user>.gnumed.xml exists
> If so, it checks if it has connected to the same server (from path statement)
Ay, there's the rub.

> If so, it asks the user whether it wants to retore state
> 
> During usage, every widget has a "save_state" method, which should be
> triggered by a "on_timer" method as well as a "on_backend_failure" and a 
> "on_crash"
   ^^^^^^^^
:-))

For some very strange reason THIS makes a lot of sense to me
while I was unable to fully follow Syan's explanations. Maybe
I am dumb or something.

Karsten
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