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.
You speak of writing an Activity, not just a plugin to run in Browse. To do that with Flash you'd need to make an Activity that is a subset of Browse that can display content stored inside its Activity bundle, which would include your Flash plugin. Frankly, this might be more trouble than it's worth. You could use the Karma framework as an alternative. I understand that it uses HTML and JavaScript to do Flash-like things. You might also use EToys or make an Activity using PyGame. My book will soon have a chapter on using PyGame. I started writing it this weekend. I have a demo program with an animated airplane. You can check out what I've written so far here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar/WebHome Linux has a program called The GIMP which is a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop and may be of interest to you. I hope you'll check out my book. It should help you learn just what a Sugar Activity is and is expected to do and hopefully will convince you that Flash can't get you there. James Simmons > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:18:41 +0000 > From: Parichay Parivesh <[email protected]> > Subject: [IAEP] guidance for developing activity > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > I am developing an activity for XO laptop. Through which child can learn > about the various mode of transpiration. Can any body suggest me which > software I can use to develop the activity. > > I thought of using Adobe Illustrator for design and all other development > will in Flash. Which means final game will be in flash. As far I research I > didn't find good feedback to develop the activity in Flash. So, I need for > help and guidance. > > Thanking you, > > Kind Regards > Parichay Parivesh > +447503433720 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
