Re: Code walk-through desired
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 00:31, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: As many of you already know, I have written a couple of Activities called Read Etexts and View Slides. For the most part they work pretty well, however they are written entirely in Python by someone who learned the language mostly by cutting and pasting code from other applications and reading articles found via The Google. As someone who has programmed for a living for over thirty years (Java, C, COBOL, BAL), I have to wonder if I really know what I'm doing, or if there is a better way to do what I'm trying to do. For instance, I wanted to show progress messages when a user is receiving a shared document, and to do that I needed to return control to the pygtk mainloop after each message so the screen could be redrawn. What I did works just fine in View Slides, but the same exact code in Read Etexts just makes the Activity hang, so I commented it out. Is it because Read Etexts uses multi-threading? Or is what I'm doing just *wrong* and somehow I'm getting away with it in View Slides? What I could really use, if any of you have the time and inclination to do it, is a code walkthrough. If you look at my code and see something you don't like, tell me about it, and maybe point me to an article that will help me do it better. You can find my code by looking at the Activities -- All page and following the links to my sugarlabs git repositories. I'm thinking about adding an annotation and highlighting feature to Read Etexts. I've described my ideas on that in the Read Etexts page in the wiki. If anyone has suggestions on how I might implement those ideas in Python and pygtk please pass them along. The members of this list have been extremely helpful in making these Activities as good as they have become. Thanks, James Simmons Perhaps you meant to send this to the sugar-devel list? Regards Morgan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Code walk-through desired
Morgan, I thought sugar-devel was aimed at those developing Sugar itself, and this list was for developers of Sugar Activities. I don't subscribe to sugar-devel for that reason. Maybe I should subscribe to both lists for awhile and see which one I'd be better off lurking in. Thanks, James Simmons Morgan Collett wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 00:31, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: As many of you already know, I have written a couple of Activities called Read Etexts and View Slides. For the most part they work pretty well, however they are written entirely in Python by someone who learned the language mostly by cutting and pasting code from other applications and reading articles found via The Google. As someone who has programmed for a living for over thirty years (Java, C, COBOL, BAL), I have to wonder if I really know what I'm doing, or if there is a better way to do what I'm trying to do. For instance, I wanted to show progress messages when a user is receiving a shared document, and to do that I needed to return control to the pygtk mainloop after each message so the screen could be redrawn. What I did works just fine in View Slides, but the same exact code in Read Etexts just makes the Activity hang, so I commented it out. Is it because Read Etexts uses multi-threading? Or is what I'm doing just *wrong* and somehow I'm getting away with it in View Slides? What I could really use, if any of you have the time and inclination to do it, is a code walkthrough. If you look at my code and see something you don't like, tell me about it, and maybe point me to an article that will help me do it better. You can find my code by looking at the Activities -- All page and following the links to my sugarlabs git repositories. I'm thinking about adding an annotation and highlighting feature to Read Etexts. I've described my ideas on that in the Read Etexts page in the wiki. If anyone has suggestions on how I might implement those ideas in Python and pygtk please pass them along. The members of this list have been extremely helpful in making these Activities as good as they have become. Thanks, James Simmons Perhaps you meant to send this to the sugar-devel list? Regards Morgan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Code walk-through desired
As many of you already know, I have written a couple of Activities called Read Etexts and View Slides. For the most part they work pretty well, however they are written entirely in Python by someone who learned the language mostly by cutting and pasting code from other applications and reading articles found via The Google. As someone who has programmed for a living for over thirty years (Java, C, COBOL, BAL), I have to wonder if I really know what I'm doing, or if there is a better way to do what I'm trying to do. For instance, I wanted to show progress messages when a user is receiving a shared document, and to do that I needed to return control to the pygtk mainloop after each message so the screen could be redrawn. What I did works just fine in View Slides, but the same exact code in Read Etexts just makes the Activity hang, so I commented it out. Is it because Read Etexts uses multi-threading? Or is what I'm doing just *wrong* and somehow I'm getting away with it in View Slides? What I could really use, if any of you have the time and inclination to do it, is a code walkthrough. If you look at my code and see something you don't like, tell me about it, and maybe point me to an article that will help me do it better. You can find my code by looking at the Activities -- All page and following the links to my sugarlabs git repositories. I'm thinking about adding an annotation and highlighting feature to Read Etexts. I've described my ideas on that in the Read Etexts page in the wiki. If anyone has suggestions on how I might implement those ideas in Python and pygtk please pass them along. The members of this list have been extremely helpful in making these Activities as good as they have become. Thanks, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
