[Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

[David Farning]

Art,

Would you mind taking a look at the bug tracker[1] and adding this
issue as new bug if it is not already there.

dev.sugarlabs.org

david

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Second of two responses:
>
> Attached is my activity, OurMusic-1.xo.
>
> As it is, it gives a partial display on SoaS of the reduced screen layout
> (upper-left corner). The basic python script that illustrates my (very)
> basic coding is ourmusic.py. (Notice my dependence on text!)
>
> It, of course, doesn't actually "work" because of the problem of Csound with
> python.
>
> If you'd like to see it running as intended, install it on the XO - but
> first enable three lines in csndsugui.py:
> take out the leading #'s in these three spots:
> in the "install csnd" toward the beginning;
> in the two lines toward the end of the file.
>
> In terms of my "coding style", except for the opening header text, it's
> basically boxes packed within boxes all the way through.
>
> FWIW, if the text remains the size it is (with SoaS on the XO), I'd guess
> this activity just wouldn't work in this context.
>
> I'd appreciate any and all suggestions/comments - of course, *especially*
> how best to deal with screen reposition (if not default type size).
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?
>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 21:13, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I finally managed to see a mockup of my XO Activity on one of my SoaS
>>> setups
>>> (large monitor).
>>>
>>> As I feared, everything displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.
>>>
>>> I know this issue has been frequently discussed here.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to the simplest python code for placing an XO
>>> screen-full square in the middle of any monitor display? No resizing (at
>>> least, not necessarily), just placement in mid-screen (vertically and
>>> horizontally).
>>>
>>> I've got some general ideas, but am not a coder - and my knowledge of
>>> PyGTK
>>> is skin-deep.
>>
>> If I understood correctly what you are asking, it will depend on how
>> you are doing your drawing. Maybe you have the code online somewhere
>> where we can see it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
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