[Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

[Wade Brainerd]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 19:16,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> > i promised simon on irc that i'd raise this on the sugar devel
> > list, so thanks for replying and reminding me.
> >
> > (to recap:  my "legacy" activity would like to be able to present
> > help and documentation info to the user via the local browser.)
> >
> > s page wrote:
> >  > pgf at laptop.org wrote:
> >  > > can someone remind me if there's any reasonable way for an
> >  > > activity to display html help or documentation using Browse?
> >  > >
> >  > > normally i'd simply have the app run "firefox file:///path-to-file",
> >  > > but that won't work.
> >  >
> >  > In candidate-800, Browse can view
> >  > file:///home/olpc/Activities/Maze.activity/activity/activity-maze.svg
> ,
> >  > so you would think you could tell it to launch and show your HTML
> help.
> >  >
> >  > I dunno if Rainbow restricts one activity from launching another.
> >
> > i believe it does, which has always been the problem for doing what
> > i would like to do.
> >
> > i think what might be useful (if rainbow is to be accomodated) is
> > a minimal-functionality html viewer.  i'd be okay, in my
> > activity, if the viewer didn't allow any off-page clicks or
> > scripts -- just html rendering.  doesn't seem like that would
> > cause a security issue, would it?
>
> Another possibility is for Sugar to provide a dialog similar to the
> object chooser and view source windows with the mozilla widget
> embedded there.
>

This would be my preference.  A standard "Help" toolbar button that opens a
modal (Object Chooser-like) HTML window which displays a html file from the
bundle.  An activity callback could be provided to return the base html
filename at runtime, for context sensitive help.

-Wade
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