Re: Hi, big qüestion!!!

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Marc Rodriguez Tristany wrote:

> Hi to everybody, I've just been added to the developers list of OLPC, 
> cause Martin Lanhoff told me I had to do it, and I don't know too much 
> how it works... But anyway, I'm a guy from Spain (Barcelona) that I'm 
> doing the final thesis of my IT degree with another guy, and it's about 
> an educational application for the OLPC (JClic), which we've translated 
> from Java to Python (& PyGame). The code is already working on Sugar.

Welcome!

> My question is:
>
> When we execute the code, the first thing it does is to open a "xml" file
> that contains the game (the child download it from the internet), and we've
> done and interface to do it (the typical "open file"). But last week we knew
> Martin (he came to Barcelona) and he told us we have to do it different. He
> said that when the child download the file, the journal should open directly
> the application with the file downloaded. We have no idea how to do it. Does
> someone know how to do it? or a link that explains it?or something similar??
> Thank you so much!!!

It sounds to me like
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar.mime#How_do_I_register_my_activity_as_supporting_different_mime_types.3F 
would help you.

-- Asheesh.

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