[sugar] Starting activities programmatically

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:57 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 20:17 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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> >> In my push to make Develop into a halfway serviceable IDE in time for
> >> the GDC talk, I want to make the Run button actually work.
> >>
> >> I just want to start an arbitrary (and not necessarily registered in
> >> with sugar in one of the standard directories) Activity bundle
> >> (unpacked, of course. Develop would be editing it).
> >>
> >> Can I do this right now?
> >>
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > sugar-activity-factory webactivity.WebActivity
> > --bundle-path=/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/activities/Web.activity
> > 
> > There might be problems if the bundle is not inside the sugar activities
> > path, but I'm sure we can solve them.
> > 
> > Marco
> > 
> 
> Awesome, thank you!
> 
> One thing that worries me, though, is that if you start an activity
> normally in sugar, close it, change it, and restart it, the new changes
> don't take effect.  It looks like the activity remains resident even
> after you close it.
> 
> What's up there, and how can I cope with it?

Change the code or change the .info?

Marco