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

[laurent bernabe]

2011/6/21 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

>
> I am not sure I follow your intension here. I have been running your
> activity and although I haven't tested it extensively, when I relaunch
> from the Journal I get the drawing I made reloaded. When I add to that
> drawing and save, upon relaunch, I get the aggregate drawing. What
> behavior would you expect otherwise?
>

That's exactly what i wanted to do, but i can't manage : so it's the journal
using that i misunderstood. However i launched it with the restart button
from the journal, and even with the restart from LearningWriting option.


> > 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've not tested this. Will do and report back.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>
Thank you :)

Regards


> >
> > 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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