All, In addition to updating this Activity I have modified the web version of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities" in the chapter "Fun With The Journal" as follows: <h2>NOT Adding A Journal Entry</h2> Note: the technique described in this section is broken in some versions of Sugar. If you use this technique your Activity will not work on those versions. The technique is documented and should be supported in every version of Sugar, but there is a certain risk in using it. In addition to the risk, there is a school of thought that Activities should always leave behind a Journal entry. The idea is that the Journal is not just a place for data, but is the equivalent of a personal journal that a child might keep about his school work. If you subscribe to that idea then every thing the child does should have a Journal entry so the child can enter notes about it. Sugar Activities by default create a Journal entry using the write_file() method. There will be Activities that don't need to do this. For instance, Get Internet Archive Books downloads e-books to the Journal, but has no need for a Journal entry of its own. The same thing is true of Sugar Commander. You might make a game that keeps track of high scores. You could keep those scores in a Journal entry, but that would require players to resume the game from the Journal rather than just starting it up from the Activity Ring. For that reason you might prefer to store the high scores in a file in the data directory rather than the Journal, and not leave a Journal entry behind at all. Sugar gives you a way to do that. First you need to specify an extra argument in your Activity's __init__() method like this: <pre>class SugarCommander(activity.Activity): def __init__(self, handle, create_jobject=True): "The entry point to the Activity" activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle, False) </pre> Second, you need to override the close() method like this: <pre> def close(self, skip_save=False): "Override the close method so we don't try to create a Journal entry." activity.Activity.close(self, True) </pre> That's all there is to it. Also, previously I had said the Journal interface extended Activity, but now I point out that this used to be true but no longer is. My plan for the book is to have the website have the most up to date and correct information, but leave the e-books and Lulu version alone. The e-books mention the website being the best source of information. If the differences between the website and the published books becomes significant I'll publish new editions of the books. James Simmons <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Sugar Labs Activities <<a href="mailto:activities@sugarlabs.org">activities@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Activity Homepage: <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4291" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4291</a> Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27506/sugar_commander-8.xo" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27506/sugar_commander-8.xo</a> Release notes: This version modifies Sugar Commander so it leaves behind a Journal entry of its own. Some versions of Sugar break Activities that don't do this. I have attempted to make the Journal entry useful by keeping a log of all the tasks done with the Activity and putting it in both the Description metadata and in the Journal entry file itself, which has a MIME type of text/plain so you can load the log into Write, attach it to emails, etc. The log has entries for copying files to the Journal, deleting Journal entries, modifying Journal metadata, and resizing images in the Journal. Sugar Labs Activities <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>