[Microbit-Python] A native editor

[Tom Viner]

I'm opening python-native-editor/index.html in Chrome and I don't see how
to get any extension (and there doesn't appear to be unpacked extension to load
in developer <https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#unpacked>
mode either).

I just get:
repl.js:75 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'sync' of undefined

on the line:
hterm.defaultStorage = new lib.Storage.Chrome(chrome.storage.sync);

On 6 December 2015 at 22:53, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ooops! My apologies! I see from looking at the code that new, open and
> save are not yet implemented, just stubbed out, it appears.
>
> I misunderstood that. Never mind.
>
> Naomi
>
> On 6 December 2015 at 16:43, Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reference Carlos. That makes sense...
>>
>> At any rate, when I removed that permission, the warning of course went
>> away. However it still coudn't find my micro:bit, since the port objects
>> have neither a productId nor a vendorId on my system, only a path. When I
>> matched on the path to what I knew to be the right path, I could get a repl
>> working just fine. Which would imply that a different way of finding the
>> right port is needed.
>>
>> I suppose the next thing is to look at the load/save issue.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Naomi
>>
>> On 6 December 2015 at 16:25, Carlos P.A. <carlos.p.a.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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