[IAEP] guidance for developing activity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 08:57, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 04:31 AM, James Simmons wrote:
>> Parichay,
>>
>> Flash is problematic for developing Sugar Activities.  Because it is a
>> commercial product it cannot ship pre-installed with Sugar, although
>> it can be installed later (but not as easily as you would like).  As
>> an alternative Sugar supplies Gnash, which supports a subset of Flash.
>>   It cannot display movies that use proprietary codecs like DivX, etc.
>> but it does allow some existing Flash plugins to run in the Browse
>> Activity.
>
> If you go down the gnash way, you might want to have a look at these
> blog posts from Tomeu:
>
> http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/progress-on-sugar-activities-with-swf.html
>
> http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/04/embed-flash-movies-with-gnash-in-your.html

But I really recommend Karma for anything new: http://karma.sugarlabs.org/

Regards,

Tomeu


> Regards,
>    Simon
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