[Sugar-devel] closing an activity immediately

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Erik Blankinship's message of Wed Feb 09 19:55:12 +0100 2011:

> class NotTodayActivity( activity.Activity ):
> 
>     def __init__( self, handle ):
>         activity.Activity.__init__( self, handle )
> 
>         self._auto_shut_down = False
>         if not self.should_this_activity_run_today( ):
>             self._auto_shut_down = True
>             logger.debug( "goin' down" )
>             self.close( )
>             return

There's a whole lot of stuff being run after Activity.__init__() before
the activity is actually "started" (take a look at the source [1]).
I haven't looked into it closely, but I suspect that your early
self.close() hangs because the widgets are not set up yet.

Sascha

[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
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