Yes, but these are un-sugarized programs and they still generate gray circles. Doesn't that imply that window creation outside of sugar is being detected and acted upon?
--Chris Tony Anderson wrote: > Compare: > > http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/pygtutorial/getting-started.html > > > > which creates a top-level window and > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PyGTK/Hello_World_Tutorial > > as a sugar activity. > > The first has the line: > > window = GtkWindow(WINDOW_TOPLEVEL) # create a top level window > > while the latter has: > > # Create the main container > self._main_view = gtk.VBox() > > Sugar has already created the top-level window with an empty VBox, so > the activity only needs to pack that VBox with widgets. > > Essentially to eliminate the grey circle, you need to modify the > initialization code (with the two tutorials as a guide). > > Tony > > > > Chris Marshall wrote: >> Two specific questions come to mind: >> >> (1) How does Sugar know that a new top level >> window has been instantiated? Is there a >> hook from the X server or what? >> >> (2) What sort of cleanup is needed to make >> the anonymous gray circle go away? Do >> you have to notify Sugar or what? >> >> I'm trying to implement some code that uses >> OpenGL via the Mesa library on the XO. As >> the code re-generates display graphics, the >> gray circles keep accumulating. I would >> like to keep the number of circles equal >> to the number of actual top level windows >> and not the total number used across the >> session. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >> >> Tony Anderson wrote: >>> I believe that these circles result from the activity initiating a >>> new top-level window. Sugar provides an activity with a window. It is >>> expected that the activity will pack it's widgets into a vbox in that >>> window. Imported activities naturally create a top-level window. >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:37:47 -0500 >>> From: Chris Marshall <jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net> >>> Subject: Re: anonymous gray activity circles >>> To: g...@laptop.org >>> Cc: OLPC Development <devel@lists.laptop.org> >>> Message-ID: <495adafb.40...@comcast.net> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>> >>> Greg Smith wrote: >>> > > Hi Chris, >>> > > >>> > > Unless someone else has seen this, I think we need more detail >>> on how to >>> > > reproduce it. >>> >>> os767 and Firefox-6 activity >>> start firefox >>> click on a file link to download >>> exit firefox after >>> left a gray circle >>> >>> (Actually, it almost always leaves behind one >>> or more circles but I have not done exhaustive >>> testing to determine how many or under what >>> conditions. It would be easier to start from >>> an understanding of how the circle gets there >>> to begin with (what is being used to trigger >>> the circle's appearance)... >>> >>> --Chris >>> >>> > > Can you write down the steps it takes to get a "gray activity >>> circle"? >>> > > Include the version of XO software you are running: >>> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/What_release_am_I_running%3F >>> > > >>> > > It may be that you are double clicking to start an activity. >>> That can >>> > > cause a second activity instance to try and start then fail and >>> leave an >>> > > icon in the frame. That's the only thing that comes to mind >>> without more >>> > > detail. >>> > > >>> > > Thanks, >>> > > >>> > > Greg S >>> > > >>> > > ********************* >>> > > >>> > > From: jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net >>> > > Subject: anonymous gray activity circles >>> > > To: devel@lists.laptop.org >>> > > >>> > > Is there a way to prevent the >>> > > anonymous gray activity circles >>> > > in the frame? Some X apps >>> > > seem to accumulate circles with >>> > > no way i have been able to >>> > > determine to remove "dead" ones. >>> > > I tried to google the list but was >>> > > not able to generate useful links. >>> > > >>> > > --Chris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel