[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Create an adapter that calls the third parties/libraries for better maintainability.

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 9:19 PM Alejandro García <tonadevv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking something like calling a GtkAdapter.Label(...) instead of
> Gtk.Label (...), or a WebKitAdapter.emit_signal (...) instead of
> WebKit2.emit_signal (...).
>
> Are these examples more clear of what I'm trying to say?
>
> The CollabWrapper and SugarGame projects are closer to what I'm trying to
> say. But not the SugarToolkit, as it creates some widgets, but if the
> developer needs more, he will use the Gtk library directly.
>

Maybe you are thinking more of something like this:

https://github.com/sugarlabs/cardsort/blob/master/toolbar_utils.py

-walter

>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 7:54 PM Alejandro García <tonadevv at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Ok. Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 7:44 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org wrote:
>>
>>> Examples of adapters used by Sugar activities are;
>>>
>>> - Sugar Toolkit for GTK 3, for Python activities,
>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3
>>>   (assumed to be preinstalled on a system that runs Sugar)
>>>
>>> - Sugargame, an integration of GTK 3 and Pygame,
>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugargame
>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>
>>> - CollabWrapper, a simplification of Telepathy,
>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/collabwrapper
>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>
>>> - Sugar Web for JavaScript activities,
>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-web
>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>
>>> We also call them Python modules or Sugar components.
>>>
>>> Please learn each of these adapters fully.
>>>
>>> We already have all the adapters needed, but if you have an idea for a
>>> new one, please specify it and show how it would simplify maintenance.
>>>
>>> Also, there are some common code patterns in activities that could be
>>> added to the above adapters.
>>>
>>> A disadvantage of adapters is where they are packaged for Linux
>>> distributions, such as the Toolkit, because then API version
>>> dependencies have to be considered.  (e.g. if we have to add a feature
>>> to the Toolkit to support a new release of the Chat activity, then
>>> those new releases of the Chat activity won't be able to be used on
>>> old releases of the Toolkit.)
>>>
>>> --
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>>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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