Whew, those instructions are tricky.
I've done a little editing on the instructions a bit, and I agree that
they are still tricky. I'm also totally new to auto* tools which is why
I added the explanatory text. Please help make it better by making your
own changes to the wiki.
I imagine they might be hard to understand if you didn't use auto*
before. I tend to blame it on auto* rather than on the instructions
though, and that's why I'm interested to experiment with alternatives.
My impression is that you create a
source layout like:
MyCode/
mycode/__init__.py
mycode/mycode.activity
mycode/the_actual_code.py
And I guess ultimately "sugar-setup-activity mycode/mycode.activity" is
called?
No, you call it like sugar-activity org.laptop.sugar.PenguinTV where the
org.laptop string is the id from the .activity file. I had a lot of
trouble getting this part right.
There are two different things here.
sugar-activity blahblah can be used to run an activity from inside the
sugar shell.
sugar-setup-activity is currently just taking care of setting up the
activity with dbus so that dbus knows how to activate it. We still need
to figure out exactly how this will work with bundles.
But, um, the activity. I'm actually vague about what happens *to* the
activity. Also, I believe there are some security things to figure out
about installation. So this is rather anticlimactic, since I can't
complete the setuptools/activity story...
The activity.py file has one job -- add the main widget of your program
to "self". In most cases, this means it will simply instantiate your
program and self.add a widget from that program into the activity.
In other words, when your activity is loaded you're given a blank
widget, and it's your responsibility to put something into that widget.
Instead of a Window, you're working in a widget.
Note that you are actually packing the widget inside a GtkWindow. The
window doesn't have chromes because that's how we setup matchbox to
manage it.
Marco
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