[Sugar-devel] launching a native python activity window from web activity

[Puneet Kaur]

Hello all,

I am trying to launch native activity from a webactivity , can you please
let me know how it can be done ?

I have made a small native python activity
(here<https://github.com/puneetgkaur/pygame_camera>)
{some basic gui toolbars yet to be included, just a gtk window with a
webcam output as of now }

I have put the activity code in
/home/puneet/sugar-build/build/out/install/lib/python2.7/site-packages, so
that it can accessible by other python classes

Have imported this class in apisocket.py, where I try to launch activity by
calling :

python_activity_class_name(self._activity)


The code can reach the python class from javascript but is not able to
launch the window.

It gives the error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/gwebsockets/server.py", line 127, in
_message_write_cb
gi._glib.GError: Error sending data: Broken pipe
1397922466.607808 ERROR root: No activities are running
1397922466.609076 WARNING root: icon_size is deprecated. Use pixel_size
instead.
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus
window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus 0x6000ee (main.py) with a
timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus
window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a
timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!

So the strategy behind the methodology is to pass on the control from the
webactivity to the python activity and then back from python activity to
webactivity when the user clicks to capture

But the issue is that probably we are not allowed to to launch another
activity while in webactivity, is that true ?

does someone has a few ideas as to how it can be done ?
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