Sharing behavior in the core Read activity

[James Simmons]

John,

This week I finally got everything in sugar-jhbuild to compile.  The 
Browse activity is the only thing that doesn't work.  It can't find a 
Mozilla library file.  In any case, I was able to get my Read Etexts 
activity to share reliably.  My activity saves the file to the journal 
if it knows that the file was shared by someone else instead of being 
loaded from the Journal.

I am using exactly the same code, as far as I can tell, in the View 
Slides activity.  That activity does not do sharing reliably at all.  On 
the receiving side it complains that no tubes are available.  On the 
sending side it complains about invalid parameters.  Yet this activity 
is doing exactly the same thing that Read Etexts is doing: sending a Zip 
file from one copy of an Activity to another.  The only difference I can 
see is that the size of the Zip file is much smaller in Read Etexts.  
The few times I have gotten sharing to work it has been with a smaller 
file (The Tale Of Miss Kitty).  Even this file doesn't work every time.

If you or anyone else has some insight into what might be failing here 
I'd love to hear it.  At the moment I'm stuck.  I have published a 
version of Read Etexts that has sharing code.  I'd like to be able to do 
the same with View Slides.

James Simmons


John Watlington wrote:

>
> It is a known problem that the Read activity doesn't automatically store
> a copy of the shared document in the Journal.
>
> Read has bigger problems.  I haven't been able to get it to share
> the document properly in test after test.
>