[Sugar-devel] Opening a web page from another Activity/application

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

It sounds very useful. If the QR activity sends the URI while Browse is 
not running, does Browse get launched?

Tony


On 11/12/2012 12:22 PM, S. Daniel Francis wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> 2012/11/12 Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been approaching this from the other direction - opening a Sugar
>> activity from a web page using localhost (CGIHTTPServer). I started the
>> local server at launch of the Learn.activity (Firefox wrapper). The
>> localhost cgi scripts invoke python scripts which can launch Sugar
>> activities (new or resume). Resuming requires a minor patch to sugar-launch.
>
> The motivation for my proposal was a QR reading activity that needs it
> to open the links in the web browser. The difference is that the
> Browse activity needs to receive the URL to be loaded and I solved it
> with a patch to Browse.
>
> Daniel.
> .
>