<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 27.09.2010, at 20:05, Harpreet Sareen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Tomeu,<br><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>You can access the Telepathy API through DBus# and the Telepathy DBus spec:</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);" href="http://www.ndesk.org/DBusSharp" target="_blank">http://www.ndesk.org/DBusSharp</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/" target="_blank">http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><br><br>Thanks for your response. I came to know about developing activities for Sugar throug C# from this link.<br><b><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-platform/monosugar.aspx?display=Print">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-platform/monosugar.aspx?display=Print</a><br>
</b>I am not a pro developer. Is there a tutorial available on how to use the telepathy API for mesh networking in my activity as it is normally available for Python etc. while developing an activity. I would be obliged<b> </b>for the same<b>.<br>
</b><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>They are normal Gtk widgets, you can see how to construct them in the</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>sugar-toolkit code:</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>></span><a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);" href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/widgets.py#line326" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/widgets.py#line326</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<br>I am sorry I didn't refer to using C# here. How can I make the Activity Toolbar or these widgets in my activity using C#?<br><br><div style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);" class="gmail_quote"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>3) I want to use the Text to Speech mechanism in my activity similar to eSpeak. How's that done in Mono?I think you have two options:</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"> >></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>- DBus# to interface with speech-dispatcher </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">>>- </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak</a><br>
</div><br></div>Since I am a new learner, I would really appreciate a sample or a tutorial on how do the same(using C# here).<br>I would be really indebted for help. Thanks a lot!<br></blockquote><br></div><div>If you are just learning to program, writing your Sugar activity in Python would save you loads of trouble. </div><div><br></div><div>It is possible to write an activity in any language (I know, because I did it) but you do have to be proficient in the language you want to use, and be able to map general advice into working code. </div><div><br></div><div>For C#, the framework that Lionel's tutorial describes already goes a long way, the hardest part is done. But extending it to fully support a Sugar-like GUI and collaboration is going to be your problem, since you are one of the very few (if not the only one) who want to write an activity in C#.</div><br><div>
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