[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Examples objects support for activities.

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2012-08-21, at 20:17, Martin Abente wrote:

> The design I implemented works like this:
> 
> a. activity developers or deployments add a new "examples" folder inside the activity bundle with their examples objects.
> b. when the activity starts, the example folder will be accessible through the journal as new volume option, and also from __any__ ObjectChooser.
> c. Only one volume button will be shown, even when many instances of the activity are running.
> d. The example folder will disappear from the journal when the last instance is closed.
> [...]
> Waiting for more feedback... :)

And in another thread:

>> instead of a magic directory name, couldn't the activity.info file have a new entry giving the examples path?
> 

> What I tried, or I am trying, to do is to make this feature available as easy as we can, so even deployments could add their own examples with very little technical knowledge requirements. That why I try this convention (magical) idea.


Okay, so by default it should look for a directory named "examples". But maybe a different path could be set in activity.info?

- Bert -