[Sugar-devel] Communication between two Activities
Gonzalo Odiard
godiard at sugarlabs.org
Wed May 20 09:50:53 EDT 2015
The notificator can write the notification to a file,
and the activity can use Gio.FileMonitor to know when the file was updated.
Just for curiosity, why not use the Sugar notifications?
Gonzalo
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> Sure, I'll try explain the user case.
>
> Notificator: There is a Sugar Activity who shows Notification messages
> for the kid.
>
> Daemon: There is an script running on cron, who get new notification
> from a Server.
>
> I need communicate the Daemon with the Notificator, so when Daemon
> receive a new notification from Server, it'll send a signal to
> Notificator.
>
> Notificator when receive the signal, should refresh a widget.
>
>
> I know a way to do that, using system signals, but i wonder if Sugar
> has another way to achieve that.
>
> Thanks.
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> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Gustavo,
> > I think would help if you explain the specific use case.
> > The activity who will receive the message is a specific activity,
> > and you will send it from a script or service?
> > Can the activity just monitor a file or something like that?
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Walter,
> >>
> >> There are two different activities, and the communication could be
> >> asynchronous.
> >>
> >> I not sure, if the the comment bellow, can confuse you, if yes,
> >> please forget that.
> >>
> >> The process who send the message, could be just a script, isn't
> >> needed it be an Activity.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Gustavo,
> >> >
> >> > Are they two instances of the same activity or two different
> activities?
> >> > Is
> >> > the communication synchronous or asynchronous?
> >> >
> >> > -walter
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> James,
> >> >>
> >> >> I should be more specific, sorry, in my case, the two Activities are
> >> >> on the same computer.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sam,
> >> >>
> >> >> Are a thread about this, already ?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks.
> >> >>
> >> >> Gustavo
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi James,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Is this meant to be a reply to an existing thread?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks,
> >> >> > Sam
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:01 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Are the two activities on:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> - separate computers, or
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> - the same computer?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> If the two activities are on separate computers, do they have the
> >> >> >> same
> >> >> >> bundle id?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> If the two activities are on the same computer, do they share the
> >> >> >> same
> >> >> >> display?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> --
> >> >> >> James Cameron
> >> >> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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