[Sugar-devel] customizing activity launch (was Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?)

[Bert Freudenberg]

(moving to devel-list)

Yes indeed, but we still have no obvious technical solution for this  
in Sugar.

Adding a pre-made project to the Journal might work, but currently it  
would be resumed regularly and modified on stopping. It would need to  
be marked as a template so that when keeping it, a copy is saved by  
default. However, finding this template in the Journal would be hard.

Making it into a separate activity bundle seems somewhat pretentious  
to me, it would just be Etoys under a different name, right? And it  
would suffer from the same resume-by-default problem like Etoys, in  
that the Sugar UI makes it not easy enough to launch a fresh instance.

Ideas welcome.

- Bert -

On 02.07.2009, at 14:51, Walter Bender wrote:

> I still wish there was a
> launch-this-project-and-we'll-have-taken-care-of-steps-1–5-below-for- 
> you
> Etoys bundle kicking around that we could just ship with the Journal.
>
> -walter
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bert  
> Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> Since this does not seem to be obvious: It's really simple to create
>> nice presentations in Etoys, there is not even scripting involved:
>>
>> 0. Start a fresh Etoys copy (in Strawberry, right-click the Etoys  
>> icon
>> and choose "start" rather than resuming the latest project)
>> 1. click "new project"
>> 2. From the "supplies" box in the toolbar, drag out a "book".
>> 3. Use the top-left button to toggle more book controls
>> 4. Use the "+" button to add pages
>> 5. Place text on a page by dragging out a Text from the "supplies"
>> box, resize after right-clicking by dragging the yellow handle
>> 6. Import images either via the clipboard or directly from the  
>> Journal
>> (using the Journal icon in the top right)
>> 7. Add annotations using the paint tool
>> 8. Add visual and sound effects for turning pages in the book's menu.
>> 9. Play with the options in the book's menu (like "view pages full
>> screen") etc.
>>
>> ... and of course you can place scripted objects / animations on the
>> pages too if you like.
>>
>> Also, the Etoys QuickGuides (accessible from the left-most button in
>> the toolbar) have an entire section on Books.
>>
>> - Bert -