[Sugar-devel] Queries regarding Sugar Sharp assembly on Mono

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:50, Harpreet Sareen <author.blogger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 1) Usually the activity interface has different tabs on the top such as
> shown in this screenshot for Record activity.
> http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7580/542record1.png[^]
> Sugar-Sharp assembly doesn't include the binding for the Telepathy
> Framework. I would be greatful if you could that to make the networking
> operation possible.
> Mesh Networking is a major requirement for XO laptops as the activities have
> to collaborate. Please Please Please help !!

You can access the Telepathy API through DBus# and the Telepathy DBus spec:

http://www.ndesk.org/DBusSharp
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/

> What do I have to do to make those tabs in Mono i.e to share my activities
> with the neighborhood?

They are normal Gtk widgets, you can see how to construct them in the
sugar-toolkit code:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/widgets.py#line326

> 2) I haven't noticed dialogue boxes coming up in Sugar. Are they possible in
> Sugar?

They are possible but not recommended, consider using an inline Alert instead:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/graphics/alert.py

> 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:

- DBus# to interface with speech-dispatcher
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/gst-plugins-espeak

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks for help!
>
> Regards
> Harpreet
>
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