Adds persistent read-memory ie Remembers which links you opened

Uses json format for remembering (~/.hackertray.json)

README.md

@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ because nw doesn't support AppIndicators yet.
 4. Shows Points/Comment count in a simple format
 
 ##To-Do
-- Implement a way to remember which stories have been read
-- Ideally app-memory should be persistent (save on disk)
 - Auto Start
 - Convert to a Python Module
 - Try to convert right click to comments link

__main__.py

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import gtk
 
 import requests
 import webbrowser
+import json
+
+from os.path import expanduser
 
 try:
     import appindicator
@@ -14,6 +17,17 @@ except ImportError:
 
 class HackerNewsApp:
 	def __init__(self):
+		#Load the database
+		home = expanduser("~")
+		with open(home+'/.hackertray.json', 'a+') as content_file:
+			content_file.seek(0)
+			content = content_file.read()
+			try:
+				self.db = set(json.loads(content))
+			except:
+				self.db = set()
+
+		# create an indicator applet
 		self.ind = appindicator.Indicator ("Hacker Tray", "hacker-tray", appindicator.CATEGORY_APPLICATION_STATUS)
 		self.ind.set_status (appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)
 		self.ind.set_label("Y")
@@ -21,7 +35,7 @@ class HackerNewsApp:
 		# create a menu
 		self.menu = gtk.Menu()
 
-		# create items for the menu - labels, checkboxes, radio buttons and images are supported:
+		# create items for the menu - refresh, quit and a separator
 		menuSeparator = gtk.SeparatorMenuItem()
 		menuSeparator.show()
 		self.menu.append(menuSeparator)
@@ -41,9 +55,17 @@ class HackerNewsApp:
 		self.ind.set_menu(self.menu)
 		self.refresh()
 
+	''' Handler for the quit button'''
+	#ToDo: Handle keyboard interrupt properly
 	def quit(self, widget, data=None):
+		l=list(self.db)
+		home = expanduser("~")
+		#truncate the file
+		file = open(home+'/.hackertray.json', 'w+')
+		file.write(json.dumps(l))
 		gtk.main_quit()
 
+	'''Opens the link in the web browser'''
 	def open(self, widget, event=None, data=None):
 		#We disconnect and reconnect the event in case we have
 		#to set it to active and we don't want the signal to be processed
@@ -51,27 +73,35 @@ class HackerNewsApp:
 			widget.disconnect(widget.signal_id)
 			widget.set_active(True)
 			widget.signal_id = widget.connect('activate', self.open)
+		self.db.add(widget.item_id)
 		webbrowser.open(widget.url)
 
+	'''Adds an item to the menu'''
 	def addItem(self, item):
 		if(item['points'] == 0 or item['points'] == None): #This is in the case of YC Job Postings, which we skip
 			return
 		i = gtk.CheckMenuItem("("+str(item['points']).zfill(3)+"/"+str(item['comments_count']).zfill(3)+")    "+item['title'])
+		i.set_active(item['id'] in self.db)
 		i.url = item['url']
 		i.signal_id = i.connect('activate', self.open)
+		i.item_id = item['id']
 		self.menu.prepend(i)
 		i.show()
 
+	'''Refreshes the menu '''
 	def refresh(self, widget=None, data=None):
-		self.data = reversed(getHomePage()[0:20]);
+		data = reversed(getHomePage()[0:20]);
+		#Remove all the current stories
 		for i in self.menu.get_children():
 			if(hasattr(i,'url')):
 				self.menu.remove(i)
-		for i in self.data:
+		#Add back all the refreshed news
+		for i in data:
 			self.addItem(i)
 		#Call every 5 minutes
 		gtk.timeout_add(5*60*1000, self.refresh)
 
+'''Returns all the news stories from homepage'''
 def getHomePage():
 	r = requests.get('https://node-hnapi.herokuapp.com/news')
 	return r.json()