[IAEP] guidance for developing activity

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Tue Mar 2 02:57:23 EST 2010


On 03/02/2010 04:31 AM, James Simmons wrote:
> Parichay,
>
> Flash is problematic for developing Sugar Activities.  Because it is a
> commercial product it cannot ship pre-installed with Sugar, although
> it can be installed later (but not as easily as you would like).  As
> an alternative Sugar supplies Gnash, which supports a subset of Flash.
>   It cannot display movies that use proprietary codecs like DivX, etc.
> but it does allow some existing Flash plugins to run in the Browse
> Activity.

If you go down the gnash way, you might want to have a look at these 
blog posts from Tomeu:

http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/progress-on-sugar-activities-with-swf.html

http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/04/embed-flash-movies-with-gnash-in-your.html

Regards,
    Simon


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