Atea and nvALT

[samuelcotterall]

I’d like to use Atea with nvALT, synced with Simplenote. I configured this accordingly:

{:file "/Users/samuelcotterall/Library/Application Support/Notational Data/todo.txt"}

Atea picks up the changes made in nvALT, but I noticed that the UI doesn’t respond to click events (start Time tracking, quit, for example). This isn’t a problem when I point Atea to a file on my desktop.

I could, I’m sure, move my nvALT notes out of /Library/, but I was wondering if this is a fixable issue.

[pkamenarsky]

Sounds like a bug - could you post a minimal example of a todo.txt that triggers that behavior?

[samuelcotterall]

Sure thing. Here’s the contents of the file https://gist.github.com/1879697:

Order headphones
Return t-shirt
[Wedding] Call printer

And here’s a screenshot: http://cl.ly/3Z31104610102v320F35

Let me know if you need any more information.

[pkamenarsky]

That's strange - the todo file works for me (I can start / stop time tracking etc). Also there is no problem when I place it in an arbitrary folder in Application Support. The only thing I can think of is that particular folder has some kind of special permissions so that the *csv file can't be created...

[samuelcotterall]

The CSV gets created without any problem (sorry, I should have mentioned that).

I will have a play around with it tomorrow and see if I can pinpoint what’s causing the problems; I guess there are a lot of variables here.

[pkamenarsky]

That'd be great - I just can't reproduce the problem locally. Also maybe try to quit nVALT and see if it works then?

[samuelcotterall]

I’m sorry; this was my fault.

At one point I accidentally renamed the file to todo.txt.txt (hidden extensions in Finder). Fixing this filename (and confirming in Terminal) meant that it updated the Atea menu item correctly, but failed when I interacted with it. This threw me off.

I just trashed the file, started again, and it worked fine. Something must have gotten mixed up along the way.