Comments on: iPod Photo support, preferences, and not just JPEGs anymore

by: flagar

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:54:53 +0000

OK Ian,
good to know that you was able even with older dependencies, but 30 minutes for an image it is a century! You had such a patience!
It has been really worth upgrading!!!

by: Ian

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:36:56 +0000

OK, I found a SRC RPM for python2.4 for FC3 and rebuilt that on my box. Now the toInterlacedUYVY takes about 10 seconds instead of 20+ minuted on python2.3. Much better!
I didn’t bother with GTK 2.8 because that would just be a nightmare and a half..

by: Ian

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:07:46 +0000

Oh, and by the way, 0.3.1 did work with my older GTK and Python, but a single small image (186×300) took over 30 minutes to convert on my 2.4GHz P4. It did finally add it to the iPod properly and I was able to view it fine.

by: Ian

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:00:01 +0000

Where can I find GTK/PyGTK 2.8 for either FC2 or FC3 or CentOS 4?

by: pugpuppy

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:10:03 +0000

Just installed SuSE 10.0 and works like a charm… and with the iPod Nano. I have had no errors or odd behaviour.

Great app.

by: flagar

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:00:24 +0000

Paul,
for now please upgrade to GTK/PyGTK 2.8 and please tell me if everything works with the original unmodified python code. In the meanwhile I try to support properly even PyGTK 2.6 - as I thought it was.
Flavio

by: flagar

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:55:22 +0000

Paul,
I have just contacted Abaakouk Mehdi who contributed the iPod HAL autodetection script for GPixPod. He answered to me:

Hi,
paul need the gobject.type_regsiter() because it use pygtk 2.6
since pygtk 2.8 gobject.type_regsiter() is deprecated, the gobject
subclass are automatictly register
I have no way to detect what version of pygtk is installed (If you found
one i'am interested)

You can see the changelog of pygtk 2.8 at :
http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew28
/(...)Now GObject's are better integrated into python. For one thing, it
is no longer needed to call gobject.type_register(MyClass) on
subclasses, ever; this is now done automatically, through the use of
metaclasses. Programs still using gobject.type_register will continue to
work, but receive a deprecation warning.(...) /

For now you can add the "gobject.type_register()" if you want support
pygtk <=2.6

by: Paul Harris

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:16:23 +0000

Ahh - i’ll wait for testing to include the latest gtk libs then!

Thanks,
Paul

by: A.Slocum

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:07:34 +0000

Python 2.4.2
python2.4-gtk2 Version 2.8.4-0
libgtk2.0.0 Version 2.8.11

by: Paul Harris

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:00:21 +0000

I am now getting this message when i mount my ipod:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/squarris/dev/ipod/GPixPod-0.3/ipodhal.py”, line 64, in __volume_mounted_cb
device_dbus_obj = self.bus.get_object(”org.freedesktop.Hal” ,device_udi)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py”, line 145, in get_object
return self.ProxyObjectClass(self, named_service, object_path)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py”, line 120, in __init__
(result, self._pending_introspect) = self._Introspect()
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py”, line 132, in _Introspect
message = dbus_bindings.MethodCall(self._object_path, ‘org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable’, ‘Introspect’)
File “dbus_bindings.pyx”, line 1630, in dbus_bindings.MethodCall.__init__
File “dbus_bindings.pyx”, line 1443, in dbus_bindings.Message.__init__
TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found

I think the device_udi returning from this call:

device_udi = volume.get_hal_udi()

Is set to null for some reason… any help would be great:

I am using:

ii python2.4 2.4.2-2 An interactive high-level object-oriented la
ii python2.4-dbus 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging system (Python
ii python2.4-glade2 2.6.3-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python2.4-gnome2 2.10.0-4 Python bindings for the GNOME desktop enviro
ii python2.4-gnome2-extras 2.12.1-2.1 Python bindings for the GNOME desktop enviro
ii python2.4-gtk2 2.6.3-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set

Thanks a lot …
Paul