Implemented status bar messages for new tweets, and for successfully posting a tweet.

README

@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ For the twitter module, you can download and install it with:
 hg clone https://python-twitter.googlecode.com/hg/ python-twitter
 cd python-twitter
 hg update dev
-patch -p1 < ../mytwitter/python-twitter-GetListStatuses.patch
-patch -p1 < ../mytwitter/python-twitter-retweet-3.patch
+for i in ../mytwitter/python-twitter-*.patch; do patch p1 < $i; done
 python setup.py build
 python setup.py install --user
 

mytwitter.py

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.tweets = []
         self.list = None
         self.reply_id = None
+        self.latest_tweet = None
 
         # Authenticate with twitter, set up the API object
         self.api = twitter.Api(username=self.username, password=self.password)
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.tweet_box = self.widget_tree.get_widget('tweet_box')
         self.update_entry = self.widget_tree.get_widget('update_entry')
         self.update_count = self.widget_tree.get_widget('update_count')
+        self.status_bar = self.widget_tree.get_widget('status_bar')
 
         # Build us some labels...
         for i in range(0, self.num_entries):
@@ -80,12 +82,26 @@ class MyTwitter():
         else:
             statuses = self.api.GetListStatuses(self.list, per_page=self.num_entries)
 
+        # If this is our first load of this list, don't treat anything as new!
+        if self.latest_tweet is None:
+            self.latest_tweet = statuses[0].id
+
+        # Keep count of the new tweets for posting a status message
+        num_new_tweets = 0
+
         for i in range(0, self.num_entries):
             if i < len(statuses):
+                if statuses[i].id > self.latest_tweet:
+                    num_new_tweets += 1
                 self.tweets[i].set_status(statuses[i])
             else:
                 self.tweets[i].clear_status()
 
+        self.latest_tweet = statuses[0].id
+        self.status_bar.pop(self.status_bar.get_context_id('new_tweets'))
+        if num_new_tweets > 0:
+            self.status_bar.push(self.status_bar.get_context_id('new_tweets'), str(num_new_tweets) + ' new tweets')
+
 
     def update_window_callback(self, widget):
         self.update_window()
@@ -96,6 +112,8 @@ class MyTwitter():
         self.update_entry.set_text("")
         self.api.PostUpdate(text, in_reply_to_status_id=self.reply_id)
         self.reply_id = None
+        self.status_bar.push(self.status_bar.get_context_id('update'),
+                             'Tweet Posted')
         
 
     def update_status_callback(self, widget):
@@ -123,6 +141,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
     def on_list_select_changed(self, widget):
         self.list = widget.get_active_text()
+        self.latest_tweet = None
         self.update_window()