Hi, some days ago I was talking with Walter also about it. And I have started with the examplechooser, it isn't very difficult to do, only using a treeview and modifying his base color to white, you can obtain a very similar widget. I sent my advance in the attachment, lacks a lot, but we can start from here. Regards, aguz. <div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/20 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > Hello Tincho! Nice to read you here again :) </div>Yes. Nice that Tincho is back. <div><div class="h5"> > > I agree this can be a very good addition, and I see think we need > solve two different parts: > > 1) Access the examples in the activities: using a widget similar to > the object chooser, > but showing files in a directory. I think Silbe said, the actual > Object Chooser can't do it, > due to limitations in the actual Journal implementation. (Sascha, can > you confirm?) > Probably we can create a a similar widget if is not possible use the > original ObjectChooser, > and should be great can show a preview if available. > > 2) Distribution of examples: This can be more controversial, but is > related and should be good > address in a related proposal. Today, there are activities as Turtle > Confusion or Amazonas Tortugas, > based on TurtleArt and may be can be data files added to TurtleArt. > Also, if we provide a way to distribute > examples, the deployments could generate them based in local needs. > Other activities can be enhanced > using examples, and if they have text should be difficult support i18n > in the data files. > May be we can create a variation of the infamous XOL files, with the > information about what activity > should manage them, and improve the installation to install them in a > different place than Library > (or the activities can look at the Library for examples) > > Gonzalo > </div></div>Sounds dangerously close to the plugin mechanism I implemented for Turtle Art. Be nice to think that through in a more general way but I think that would be a different thread. regards. -walter <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Martin Abente > <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> Hello Everyone: >> >> In a recent conversation with Walter, he mentioned that it would be very >> useful if activities could include examples objects. From my experience in >> the field, I can tell this feature can be a really useful indeed. Therefore >> I would like to bring this idea to the general discussion and see what >> others think. >> >> The idea is simple: Activities include examples objects that can be bundled >> with and accessed from the activity. >> >> For the ones that also think this could be useful: I am sure you must have >> your own vision of how this feature should work and look like, so please >> share it here. >> >> In general terms and from my POV it should be something: >> >> (a) simple to access. >> (b) with a familiar interface to the users. >> (c) low-cost for activities developers to include. >> (d) Safe. >> >> One of the ideas, that meets these requirements, is to include a standard >> "Examples" folder in the activities root directory that would be accessible >> through a regular ObjetChooser. The ObjectChooser is already capable of >> presenting any folder's contents, thanks to recent years improvement in the >> journal to present external-media and documents-folder contents. >> >> Accessing to these objects would be as easy as just opening a ObjectChooser >> instance, many activities already do this (but limited to journal content). >> As I just said, the ObjectChooser interface is widely used, therefore users >> are already familiar with it. To ease the costs for activities developers I >> think that having this standard folder approach is crucial. One open >> question I still have is how this ObjectChooser should be opened from the >> activities in a standard way (suggestions?). By "safe" I mean that it should >> guarantee that it only presents this standard folder objects in read-only >> mode (at least from the GUI POV). >> >> I will stop here and I would like to hear what you guys think regarding the >> general idea first. >> >> Saludos. >> tincho. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> >> </div></div><div class="im HOEnZb">-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ 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> </div></div></blockquote></div>