[Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity

[Art Hunkins]

Tomeu and Gary,

Thanks for your advice and interest.

I've attached my complete activity (OurMusic) in the form of an .xo archive.

Note that it requires csndsugui.py (included), Victor Lazzarini's "Csound 
GUI toolkit." It's barely possible that the color issue lies therein (but 
unlikely).

The background color issue is the only issue when the activity is run on 
OLPC; on SoaS, there is another as well: an "unavailable" csnd or _csnd 
module (from python 2.6). For the latter issue, Aleksey suggested a 
Scons-related fix (that I've yet to be able to implement, unfortunately, as 
my technical expertise is *highly* limited).

If you manage to get an initial display on a white background, I'd be most 
grateful.

If you do have/get a display, probably options 2 and 4 will work for you; 
they use only the ASCII keyboard, no MIDI controllers (unlike 1 and 3). I'd 
be delighted if these worked on SoaS.

Gary, I'll be trying your code as well. I presume it should go near the 
beginning in my main loop? (Sorry, my grasp of both python and GTK -- OOP 
for that matter -- is so minimal.)

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: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity


> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 04:46, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>> Tomeu,
>>
>> I've had no luck modifying background color for anything except buttons.
>>
>> No boxes, even when the box is completely empty.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to change the color of the entire screen, or of a 
>> box?
>
> I have done it routinely, can you share the whole code of your activity 
> class?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> 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: Monday, July 06, 2009 4:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 06:19, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The default color for the Sugar Activity screen seems to be set to 
>>>> light
>>>> gray. I'd like mine to be white.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to change this in my activity script?
>>>
>>> That looks good to me, perhaps ibox contains some other widget that is
>>> covering it completely?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>>> I tried:
>>>>
>>>> import gtk
>>>>
>>>> win = csndsugui.CsoundGUI(self)
>>>> ibox = win.box(False)
>>>> ibox.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.Color(0xFFFF, 0xFFFF, 0xFFFF))
>>>>
>>>> where ibox = the entire screen.
>>>>
>>>> However this changed nothing.
>>>>
>>>> Anything fairly straightforward I could try?
>>>>
>>>> Art Hunkins
>>>>
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