Unable to run/install read-activity in sugar-jhbuild

[Hemant Goyal]

Hi Tomeu,

Thanks, that totally worked. Wish I had asked this question 5 hours ago :).

There is one more query that I have. We are planning to create a plugin
which would help bridge the Read activity with eSpeak (a text to speech
engine).

Espeak can be invoked using the following command :

espeak --stdout "Hello listening world!" | gst-launch fdsrc fd=0 !
wavparse ! alsasink


We want to pick the string data from Read and send it to espeak. Which is
the best point from where we can pick this string data for speech synthesis?

Can we pick the string data from Read-activity directly or will we need to
look further into evince-olpc?

Thanks and Regards,
Hemant

On 10/14/07, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 00:30 +0530, Hemant Goyal wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is a newbie question, I have been trying to run the read-activity
> > in sugar environment for quite some time now with no success.
> >      1. I pulled the latest read-activity source code from git
> >         repository of read by running ./sugar-jhbuild update. This
> >         step updated the read-activity source code to version 33.
> >      2. I then changed to the sugar shell by runnng ./sugar-jhbuild
> >         shell.
> >      3. I then navigated to sugar-jhbuild/source/read-activity.
> >      4. I ran python setup.py dist to create an xo bundle to check the
> >         version number of the activity.
> >      5. Finally i ran python setup.py
> >         install /home/hemant/Download/sugar-jhbuild/build from
> >         sugar-jhbuid/source/read-activity to install the activity.
> > I've also tried running ./sugar-jhbuild build several times but I
> > still cannot see the shortcut/launch icon to the Read Activity in the
> > Sugar environment. Any step that I am missing?
>
> Hi,
>
> Read does not have any icon in the frame, as it is currently a
> viewer-only activity, cannot create content.
>
> You can launch Read by opening a pdf file in the journal. You have two
> ways of adding a pdf to the journal, one is by downloading a pdf file
> with Browse, and the other is by inserting a usb stick with a pdf on it,
> you can then copy the pdf to the main flash by drag'n'drop if you wish.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
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