[Sugar-devel] Hacking on HTML activities UI (was Re: GSoC 13)

[Daniel Narvaez]

Oh. You need to install the xi-artwork nodejs module.

I think you cloned that git repo already so

npm install -g path/to/xi-artwork

Then "volo create..." should work.

On 11 April 2013 11:37, suraj ks <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm having trouble creating an activity using volo.
> i cloned the modules which you mentioned to D:\pesit\
>
> i tried creating a sample like how to suggested.
> But it shows the following error:
>
> D:\pesit>volo create helloAgain ayopa/xi-activity
> Downloading:
> https://nodeload.github.com/ayopa/xi-activity/legacy.zip/master
> Malformed volofile: D:\pesit\helloAgain\volofile: Error: Cannot find
> module 'xi-artwork/update-artwork'
> onCreate did not succeed. You can try later by typing "volo onCreate"
> inside the
>  project that was just created, passing any arguments you passed to the
> create call.
> https://api.github.com/repos/ayopa/xi-activity/zipball/master used to
> create helloAgain
>
>
> Please help me out here.
>
> Regards,
> Suraj
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, suraj ks <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I work on Ubuntu.
>> A couple of days back it crashed due to some inexplicable reason. :(
>> For the past several hours, I've been trying to reinstall it and  get
>> started on the UI part.
>> My attempts were futile(re-installing ubuntu).
>>
>> I'm afraid the only alternative available to me is to switch to windows.
>> Hope you don't mind me working on windows.
>>
>> I'm getting started with setting up the tools needed to work on the UI
>> right away(on windows).  :)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suraj
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 April 2013 19:54, suraj ks <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Its cool :)
>>>> Which are the sugar modules that I should download to start working on
>>>> the UI?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Which OS are you using?
>>>
>>> Anyway I'd suggest
>>>
>>> 1 Install nodejs
>>>
>>> http://nodejs.org/
>>>
>>> 2 Install volojs
>>>
>>> http://volojs.org/
>>>
>>> 3 Install chrome
>>>
>>> 4 Clone the xi modules
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ayopa/xi-graphics
>>> https://github.com/ayopa/xi-artwork
>>> https://github.com/ayopa/xi-activity
>>>
>>> 5 Create an activity. Something like
>>>
>>> volo create helloworld ayopa/xi-activity
>>> volo add xi-graphics
>>>
>>> Try to install the web app in chrome. There is great documentation about
>>> chrome web apps here:
>>>
>>> http://developer.chrome.com/trunk/apps/about_apps.html
>>>
>>> Note that the xi libraries has been tested only on b2g (firefox) so far,
>>> you might need small modifications to make them work. Please submit these
>>> changes as pull requests.
>>>
>>> 6 Give a try to the two examples activities we have
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ayopa/omega-examples
>>>
>>>
>>> Once that's working you should be all setup. And you can discuss with
>>> Manuel the next development steps.
>>>
>>> Feel free to ask for help on the mailing list for any problem you run
>>> into. I wrote the above list without testing it, so it might not work out
>>> of the box... If you post any corrections here, it's going to be useful to
>>> everyone.
>>>
>>> Also, i found a "GSoC mailing list", which hardly had any content
>>>> relating to GSoC.
>>>> Should i proceed further with my discussions in the current mailing
>>>> list(sugar-dev) or should i switch to the GSoC mailing list?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what that list is about exactly but anything about
>>> development should definitely stay here on sugar-devel.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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