[Sugar-devel] How to copy something from the Journal to a pendrive? FotoToon export?

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Tom.
I am working in a functionality to save the work in the Fototoon activity
like a image.
I didn't know the information about the custom mime types. (Thanks Sascha!)
. I will try to add that info in the next version.
Thanks for the detailed report.

Gonzalo

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:02 AM, tom.staubitz at fhtw-berlin.de <
tom.staubitz at fhtw-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been trying for while now to copy journal entries to a usb stick.
> This works fine as long as files are concerned, e.g. Pics or Audio
> recordings taken with Record.
> It does not work if I try to copy an activity from the journal to the usb
> stick.
> No matter if I'm using the menu in the details view or drag and drop.
> The behavior is always the same: it appears to work, the little copy icon
> appears etc. but in the end
> the copied file is not on the stick. I've tried two different sticks, both
> have been recently formatted.
>
> Why would I want to copy an activity to a usb stick?
> Imagine two or more children. Half of them are in country1, the others are
> in country2.
> They would like to collaborate on an activity, e.g. FotoToon.
> One of the groups starts and adds a picture and some bubbles. Now they want
> to send their work to the other group so that they can add a picture and a
> couple of bubbles. This goes back and forth a couple of times.
>
> I actually managed somehow to store the FotoToon activity as a zip file.
> This zip contains the images and a .json file describing the bubbles.
> Unfortunately FotoToon does not seem to be able to open this zip file.
>
> More or less the same happens when I attach the activity to an email. If I
> rename the file to xxx.zip I can open it and there are the images and the
> json file. I cannot open it with FotoToon. If I do not rename the activity
> and try to start it it will open Etoys.
>
> Another problem is how to save the final story into a format that e.g. can
> be published on a website?
>
> FotoToon is just one example that the results that have been achieved while
> working with one activity cannot be used to be edited in another activity. I
> have the same problem with, amongst others, TamTamJam or Paint.
> Is it really not possible or am I missing something?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> Tom
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:11 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>
> How much effort would it be to add such an copy-to-USB option to the
> Journal
>
> hover palette? Is this something I could do with the help of my
> knowledgable
>
> flatmate Mr. Innocenti?
>
>
> Yep, shouldn't be hard nor a lot of code.
>
>
>
> As we're there, we might want to add a progress display for long copy
>
> operations. Currently, if you drop a large file on the journal icon, the
>
> UI freezes for a long time with no indication of progress, tempting the
>
> user to perform a hard reboot (and thus corrupting the datastore :-).
>
>
> If nobody has time to implement a nice progress bar, at least we could
>
> put on the busy cursor (which is animated in our cursor theme, iirc).
>
>
> The copy could probably be made fully asynchronous, but with no progress
>
> indication, there's a potential for users to extract USB sticks before
>
> the operation is finished.
>
>
> --
>
>  // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>
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