Creating a non-python activity

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 21.05.2008, at 14:02, Paul Fox wrote:

> bert wrote:
>>
>> On 21.05.2008, at 07:25, shivaprasad javali wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>        I have a C++ activity which i want to use on the olpc. I
>>> tried to sugarize my activity based on the info  i found on the olpc
>>> wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugarizing  .
>>>
>>>         The code for sugarizing in that page didnt work for me. I
>>> was only able to launch my process as a separate application to my
>>> python script so that there were two processes running for my one
>>> application.
>>>
>>>       I could not figure out how to tie my application's window to
>>> the blank window provided for the python script.
>>
>> You need to _SUGAR_BUNDLE_ID and _SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ID as properties to
>> your X window. This is documented here:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API
>
> the big trick that might help (and that isn't quite spelled out
> explicitly on that page)

Well, that page is (and should be) agnostic of implementation. It  
spells out *what* needs to happen, not *how*, which is specific to  
your actual application, choice of language, etc.

> is to wrap your C/C++ activity in a
> combination of shell script (which sets up some environment
> variables, based on the standard sugar args, i.e., --bundle-id,
> --activity-id, etc) and a pre-load shared library that contrives
> to get those values into the X properties where they need to go.
> see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Factory


Would be nice if someone added that info to the "Sugarizing" wiki page.

- Bert -