[mergext] Help with Dropbox external

[Monte Goulding]

They now have two ios and android SDKs. It looks like I might be doing sync for a client so that will hopefully make it into mergExt too but it would be a separate external. Should be much simpler if you want a local cache to be auto synced with the app folder.

On 11/03/2013, at 5:23 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Hi Monte:
> 
> Not sure if this is relavent to your external or not but I recently
> received a notice from Dropbox about their Sync API:
> https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync
> Maybe your add-on is already based on this but just thought I'd mention it
> since they sent out the notice 3 days ago.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/10/13 5:16 PM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ooo... You're testing me by asking a mergExt question here instead of
>> StackOverflow ;-)
>> 
>> It's definitely not a production/development issue because my demo app is
>> development. Have you tried using your app key and secret in the demo?
>> 
>> The most common reason for dropbox not linking would be people forgetting
>> to handle urlWakUp with the mergDropboxHandleOpenURL command.
>> 
>> on urlWakeUp pURL
>> mergDropboxHandleOpenURL pURL
>> end urlWakeUp
>> 
>> On 11/03/2013, at 12:06 PM, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> I can't seem to get a response from Dropbox when I call any of the
>>> mergDropbox commands. I've setup an app on Dropbox, so I have an app key
>>> and secret to pass in the mergDropbox setup command but nothing happens
>>> when I do. All this works fine in the demo stack that comes with the
>>> external (which links me to Monte's demo Dropbox app) BTW.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that my Dropbox app
>>> status is 'development' rather than 'production', but if it is then I'm
>>> unsure how to proceed as I am unable to apply for production status
>>> until I have successfully linked to the app - which seems like a catch
>>> 22 situation to me.
>> 
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>> Monte Goulding
>> 
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