[Sugar-devel] creating your own templates in write activity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 21:25, Manusheel Gupta<manu at laptop.org> wrote:
> Tomeu,
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> Nice to hear from you.
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
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>> I think Martin's answer has been very complete, are you already set on
>> this one? I recommend you to send these questions to the abiword-devel
>> mailing list where you will find Martin and the other Abiword
>> developers:
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> Yes, Martin's answer was very complete. We were able to add the text box
> feature.
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> Will subscribe to abiword-devel mailing list. Thank you for the pointer.
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>> http://www.abisource.com/developers/
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>> > We also wish to ask you about the details of the code, which is used to
>> > enable menu selections in the advanced abiword activity.
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>> What do you mean by "enable menu selections" and "advanced abiword
>> activity"?
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> The advanced abiword activity is a reference implementation provided in the
> examples folder of pyabiword (please have a look at the examples folder in
> the attached pyabiword file).

I see, despite of having Sugar in the class name, it has technically
nothing to do with Sugar.

> "Enable menu selections" was a typo from my side. My apologies. Selecting an
> option from the menu bar is very well implemented in this example.
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>> Also, could you explain what are you trying to accomplish?
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> We are trying to extend the write activity, and develop features on top of
> it, so that it could be used for authoring school newspapers and magazines.
> Template builder tool is an integral part of the activity.

That sounds great, how do you plan to deploy it? Are you going to
integrate your changes into the existing Write activity or will do a
new one based on that?

Regards,

Tomeu

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> Manu
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