[Sugar-devel] Problems adapting activity

[Gary Martin]

Hi,

On 8 Jun 2010, at 19:29, Alberto Arruda de Oliveira <alberto.a.oliv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Recently, I've been trying to adapt a software a friend developed into an activity, but since I'm a bit newbie when it comes to sugar development, I'm having some trouble doing it.
> 
> I've followed the tutorials in
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_an_activity
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_tutorial
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles
> 
> with no success.
> 
> I run the setup.py file on my computer, create the .xo package, export it to the XO system, install it and restart. The activity icon shows up, but when I click it, it stays on the loading screen ( white with the activity icon blinking ) but doesn't load the program.
> 
> I'm trying to run it on an emulated image.
> 
> Also, keep in mind that the software itself wasn't developed with the XO in mind, so, maybe I need to change something on the source code to make it work.

If you run the Log activity, have a look at the error logs for your activity, usually it's the quickest first place to look with something like this happens. Look for the 'trace back' if there is one and post here if it's not obvious to you what failed.

Regards,
--Gary  

> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> 
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