[Sugar-devel] The best place to learn interaction with the olpc journal ?

[laurent bernabe]

Hello,

I apologize, I explained what I wanted to say in a bad way

the etext example given in the tutorial does not show a write_file example.
I tried to implement write_file in my application by giving a look at Turtle
art example, adapting it for a custom MIME type. I believe it is quite
simple to do this, but unfortunately, i must have done a mistake in my
application :

   - when I give a look at the journal, the screen capture of my save is ok.
   But when I try to open it with my application, the picture as been erased
   and I have lost all my data (Instead of really opening my save, it starts
   from sratch and erase old saves). So I think I misunderstood the
   developpment of interaction with the journal. My MIME type is *.gph and
   stands for application/x-graph
   - when I copy an entry from the journal to the USB key, it has the gph
   extension, but it appears as empty : screen capture is a green background
   (the standard background of my application). However, when i open it with a
   text editor from my linux host, it has text data. So i really think i have
   misunderstood the development of interaction with the journal

I apologize for what i've said in my recent post.

Regards

2011/6/21 James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>

> Laurent,
>
> I thought I had covered what you need to know in MYOSA, but if it
> wasn't clear all you need to do to load a drawing that you created in
> your Activity is implement the
>
> def read_file(self, file_path):
>
> method.  That gets executed when your Activity gets loaded, and
> file_path will contain the data from your Journal entry.  You can also
> read metadata from the Journal entry here.
>
> When you close your Activity then the
>
> def write_file(self, filename):
>
> will save your drawing file as a Journal entry.  The write_file()
> method is also the place where you can set up metadata for your
> Journal entry.
>
> write_file() is also invoked when you switch the focus away from your
> Activity.
>
> That is all most Activities will ever need to do, but if you want to
> do more the chapter "Fun With The Journal" will give you the details.
>
> If there are features you need to know about that I didn't cover could
> you let me know what they are?
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM, laurent bernabe
> <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I just would like to know where is the best place to learn interaction
> with
> > Sugar OLPC journal ?
> > Because I think that I've not  yet well understand the concept, for my
> > project LearningWriting.
> >
> > I've read the tutorial
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/, but it does
> not
> > seem to cover all features.
> > (I need to save my drawings and put them back in my application)
> >
> > Regards
> >
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> >
> >
>
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