Updated: 4/23/2002; 4:44:22 PM.

My Picture Plan

Goal  

Looking at the myPictures tool. I think integrating this with the app is long overdue. I'm going to look into what's required to make this work. Looks reasonably straightforward. Here's the plan.

Tactics 

1. The data goes into user.radio.pictures.

2. The code goes into radio.pictures.

3. A call to the threadScript goes in radio.thread.agents.

4. A new prefs panel.

Questions 

Key question, how to transition? What about people who are already using the myPictures tool? Moving the data is easy. Should we do it automatically? What if the user is running a customized version of the myPictures tool?

Here's the approach I want to take. If myPictures.root is present, as usual, we copy the prefs and settings into user.radio.pictures, but we don't enable the new code, and leave myPictures.root alone. It continues to manage pictures.

If the user chooses to enable the built-in pictures functionality, we disable myPictures.root. (By adding a #enabled false at the top level of the file.)

If the user does not have myPictures.root, then we enable the built-in functionality.

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