[Sugar-devel] My project LearningWriting : some guideleness advises ?

[laurent bernabe]

Hello again,

What is the best way to get started with the new toolbars ?

Is there an activity which source simply demonstrates the JSON+MIME
import/export feature ?

Thanks

Le 9 mars 2012 12:05, laurent bernabe <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> a écrit :

> For the toolbar entry : i will do the effort to implement it :)
>
> Thank you for the JSON advice. I also think that was because i did not
> install my activity that the mime type was not recognized.
>
> So, I'll keep on using cairo for drawings.
>
>
> Thank you very much ^^
>
> Le 9 mars 2012 11:46, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:16 AM, laurent bernabe <
>> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I plan to go on developping on my project LearningWriting I post on
>>> sugar gitorious a few months ago.
>>> But, as I'm facing some developping difficulties, I woul like to have
>>> your suggest about some details :
>>>
>>>
>>>    1. My program, in its current state, (parenthesis : no
>>>    internalization yet), just lets a user draw whatever he wants on a kind of
>>>    blackboard with just the chalck, and whenever he want, he can replay the
>>>    animation. But he can configure the point size and the animation speed size.
>>>
>>>
>> Nice. Would be better have a entry in the toolbar to set the velocity
>> instead of using a window. Or better use a gtk.HScale
>> And please use the "new" toolbars (present since sugar 0.86, see the work
>> we did in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/ToolbarCatalog)
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    1. The main purpose of this program, is to let teachers make their
>>>    own letters/digits sets, or download and install existing sets. I think a
>>>    tarball format is the best archive format purposal. I know Python reduce
>>>    the complexity for creating such archives, but what I wonder is if I will
>>>    be able to let user easily import/export archives to/from a usb key (and/or
>>>    the journal). I have a copy of the activity guideleness, and I must read it
>>>    further that I've done before, but do you think this use case can be easily
>>>    implemented ?
>>>
>>>
>> You can save easily the data in a json format and assign to the activity
>> a mimetype, (like you are doing)
>> then the files will be recognized in the journal or in a external device.
>> If you can't see the extension assigned when you copy a file from the
>> journal to a pendrive,
>> remember the activity should be installed (with a .xo) to sugar recognize
>> the mimetype.
>>
>>>
>>>    1. Should I use Python3 ? Should I try to program for GTK 3 ?
>>>
>>> No. You should no use python 3, sugar is not ported and will not in the
>> near future.
>> GTK 3 is not needed right now, but if you plan use it in 6 months/1 year,
>> will be ok
>> (but can do your development a little more difficult.
>> You are using cairo to draw, then porting to gtk3 will be easy.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>
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