[APBeta] Audio attachments possible?

[Roberto Abraham]

Thanks Paul, though I honestly didn't want to lumber
you with an additional feature request at this late
stage, so I feel a little bad even mentioning it!

I've got no big plans to modify any of the database files at
the moment, but it's nice to know that one will always be able
to parse them... more than can be said for many files based on
proprietary storage formats.

Thanks again,

Bob

On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Roberto Abraham wrote:
>
>> Yep, I was indeed talking about adding attachments to old
>> observations from the observation database window... sorry if
>> I was unclear. I figured working in the observation database
>> window was the most direct way to edit old observation database
>> entries. Maybe I should instead just do it the way you've just
>> suggested though... certainly as long as it's possible to do
>> it somehow that's plenty good enough!
>
> I'm modifying things so that you will be able to edit attachments  
> from the observation database window.
>
>> By the way, it's an inspired choice to store the observation
>> database as a generic sqlite database. Picking something standard  
>> like
>> this is a nice way to "future proof" this important file, and makes
>> it fairly straightforward to get at the data using a range of
>> tools.
>
> So are plan documents, resource database, image database,  
> annotations database, etc. However, be wary of modifying any of  
> these outside of AstroPlanner: there might be dependencies that can  
> be broken. If you (or anyone else) has thoughts of modifying any of  
> these documents/databases, speak to me first. Reading them is no  
> problem, although you might find some of the fields non-obvious  
> (both in intent and content).
>
> SQLite is a very robust, compact, fast, cross-platform (and free/ 
> open source) database system. It's used in many places, including as  
> the primary storage system for Mac Cocoa and iOS apps.
>
> Paul R.
>
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