Creating a non-python activity

[shivaprasad javali]

Thanks to all of you .

I finally got the app working thanks to this link
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

>
> 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 -
>
>
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