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

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi,
I haven't seen how it does it, but Develop Activity does launch the 
active activity/project.

I dunno if it's "clean", but it works!

Regards,
Sebastian

El sáb, 19 de abr 2014 a las 4:54 PM, Sam Parkinson 
<sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently there is no clean way to launch any activity from inside 
> any other one!
> 
> I think someone was working on an intents system, but I don't know 
> the status of that.
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Puneet Kaur <puneet.gkaur at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 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) {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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