[Sugar-devel] Call website in browser activity from terminal

[James Cameron]

Addendum; another activity which calls launch_bundle to start Browse
is Bibliography, see
https://github.com/samdroid-apps/bibliography-activity/blob/1f68c2dc996ad6e212c0cf8b78475a6170b0ede6/browsewindow.py#L128

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:39:10AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> It depends on if you use Terminal or must add to an activity.
> 
> Using Terminal, at prompt or in shell script, use this command;
> 
> 	sugar-launch -u 'https://google.com' org.laptop.WebActivity
> 
> Precautions;
> 
> - the command may not finish until Browse is stopped, so use "&" shell
>   suffix to place in background,
> 
> - if an instance of Browse is already running, another instance is
>   started, and the command may finish before Browse is stopped,
> 
> - a set of environment variables must be present in the shell; this
>   normally happens in Terminal, but if you have more complicated
>   process arrangements you must take care to keep environment
>   variables,
> 
> - the bundle name is printed on Terminal; use shell redirection
>   ">/dev/null" to discard this.
> 
> 
> Using an activity, call the launch_bundle method
> https://developer.sugarlabs.org/sugar3/sugar3.activity.activity.html#launch_bundle
> 
> Two activities have examples of using launch_bundle; Browse and Get
> Books.  Browse has no need to launch itself, so look at Get Books for
> some code.
> 
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/get-books-activity/blob/ae4feba6c16a2c63b7e8c4926eb297c7ca3f7cc5/GetIABooksActivity.py#L1090
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Alejandro Calderón wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I'm trying to call a website in browser activity from terminal like in Firefox
> > that is the following command:
> > 
> > firefox [1]www.google.com
> > 
> > Do you know a way to do the same with browser activity?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance. 
> > 
> > Regards!
> > 
> > References:
> > 
> > [1] http://www.google.com/
> 
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> James Cameron
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