[Sugar-devel] how to force Sugar Activities to start fresh? (eg. XO OS 11.2.0 = Build 874)

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5 Nov 2011, at 15:31, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to start a new document once you're in the activity?
>
> No, the only places to start new activity instances from are:
>
> 1) home favourite view (from an activity palette, or by holding alt and clicking)
> 2) home list view
> 3) from the Journal by clicking on an activity bundle
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>>  --Scott
>>
>> On Saturday, November 5, 2011, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> >> G'day Adam,
>> >>
>> >> The holding down of the alt key in the activity view was introduced in
>> >> Sugar 0.86 [1], and 11.2.0 is based on Sugar 0.94, and I've tested it
>> >> just now and the feature works fine for me.
>> >>
>> >> Sometimes the left-alt key fails on membrane keyboards.  Please test
>> >> that the alt key works.  You can do this easily by opening two
>> >> activities and using alt-tab to switch between them.  If this doesn't
>> >> work, then there's more investigation to do.
>> >>
>> >> Otherwise, you can use the ok prompt to "test /keyboard".
>> >>
>> >> 1.
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes#Home_Favourites_View_Improvements
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> James Cameron
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>> >
>> > The graying out is Sugar's way of telling you that you'll get a fresh
>> > instance instead of reopening the most recent. If you are seeing gray,
>> > then it should work. Perhaps the children are releasing the Alt key
>> > before clicking?
>> >
>> > Alternatively, right click brings up the hover menu immediately. At
>> > the bottom of the hover menu for activities on the Home View is the
>> > option to open a new instance.
>> >
>> > regards.
>> >
>> > -walter
>> >
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>

While there is not a general solution, some activities, e.g., Turtle
Art, provides such a mechanism. Not sure it is really applicable to
many activities, but for those where you make things, it probably
makes sense.

-walter

-- 
Walter Bender
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