[Microbit-Python] A native editor

[Carlos P.A.]

Looks like RequestFileSystem might only be supported in ChromeOS, is that
the platform you've been using Nicholas?

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/apps-dev/LEne7qedZrc/7ZEY0uwfDgAJ

On 6 December 2015 at 22:09, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly I can't get the extension to work on either OSX or Linux - instead,
> the extension reports
>
>  There were warnings when trying to install this extension:
>
>    - 'fileSystem.requestFileSystem' is not allowed for specified platform.
>
>
> So the result for me is that the new, open, and save functions don't do
> anything at all, and the repl says it can't find the microbit.
>
> I'm not finding any explanations of line, but I've attached a screen shot
> of the warning...
>
> I'm also not seeing any setting for Chrome that would seem to help.
>
> Cheers,
> Naomi
>
>
>
> On 6 December 2015 at 15:15, Carlos P.A. <carlos.p.a.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Excellent work Nicholas!
>>
>> Will the pluggin also automatically work when the interface is accessed
>> from the https://www.microbit.co.uk/create-code python link? (once it is
>> implemented in the webiste).
>>
>> As a small suggestion, probably with a low priority, is that having some
>> visual feedback on the page that the program is being flashed would be
>> ideal, even better if there was a tiny progress bar on the button.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Carlos
>>
>> On 6 December 2015 at 20:34, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Basically, this:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MGFVuZrrs
>>>
>>> ...is a first draft and the source code is here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ntoll/python-native-editor
>>>
>>> There's no documentation and I'll be working on it over the coming days
>>> with a view to showing it on Wednesday to a bunch of teachers.
>>>
>>> FYI - working out how to flash the device took several tortuous days.
>>> Chrome has a USB API that was documented to appear to be exactly what I
>>> needed (pushing file based data to the device). I spent far too much
>>> time learning about USB and getting permission to write to the device to
>>> work.
>>>
>>> In the end I gave up when I realised there was a really easy hack that
>>> was right in front of my nose... just copy the damn .hex file to the
>>> device via the built-in file-system API.
>>>
>>> It worked first time..! :-)
>>>
>>> That's several hours of my time I'll never get back.
>>>
>>> Early days. Collaboration welcome!
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Nicholas.
>>>
>>>
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