[Sugar-devel] Sugar Activity template for HTML5/Enyo

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/8/25  <lionel at olpc-france.org>:
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> Hi all,
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> I've enhanced the work of Manuel Quinones to create an activity template
> using Enyo JavaScript Framework.
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> My objective was to provide a template to write a Sugar activity using HTML5
> but without losing advantage of the Sugar integration. Plus, I didn't want
> using a HTTP Server integrated into the activity like in the Wikipedia
> activity.
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> Finally, using some WebKit tips & tricks (calling a JavaScript in the
> current page and console message handling), I finally conceived a simple
> framework that allow bi-directional communication between Python code and
> JavaScript code (using Enyo Framework). You could find the resulting source
> code from this framework here [1] for Python and here [2] for JavaScript.
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> To test this framework, I wrote a sample activity (downloadable here [3])
> with a part of the activity wrote in HTML5 and the other part wrote in
> Python. I've illustrated the power of this framework with few features:
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> - Sending basic type or full python object to JavaScript,
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> - Sending basic type or full JavaScript object to Python,
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> - JavaScript Enyo controls (Checkbox and Slider) synchronized with matching
> Gtk control,
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> - Passing of Sugar context (buddy nickname and color) to JavaScript,
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> - Using Sugar toolbar to launch JavaScript event,
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> - Handling a HTML5 canvas (a small Logo Turtle ;-) from Gtk button.
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> A screen capture of the activity is visible here [4].
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> I think it's a good start to show what we could hope from this sort of
> integration and finally, to have more HTML5 developers writing or adapting
> activities to Sugar.
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Wow Lionel, impressive advance!

> Lot of thing could be done to enhance this basic framework. I hope to have
> time to write a real activity to work on some other interesting stuff:
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> - Read/Write from Sugar Journal from JavaScript
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> - Use POT localization for HTML5 resource
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> - Using Sugar presence from JavaScript
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- have a Enyo theme similar to the one in Sugar?

Keep the good work :)

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