testing 8.2 using qemu

[Gabriel Eirea]

Hi Gary,

Thank you for your response. The Moon activity looks like a very good
place to learn how to do things, it is very well written and easy to
understand. I will read about json.

One small suggestion: when you toggle hemispheres, it would be good to
have a text label showing the current hemispere view (north or south).

Best regards,

Gabriel

2008/9/18 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> On 19 Sep 2008, at 01:43, Gabriel Eirea wrote:
>
>> I appreciate your explanation but my question was not about the
>> literal meaning but about where in the filesystem does the variable
>> point to.
>
> I just looked at where my Moon activity was being told to write:
>
>        /home/olpc/isolation/1/uid_to_home_dir/10000/data/
>
>> My thinking was: I need to read a configuration file that I
>> myself generate and ship in the bundle, but then rainbow doesn't let
>> me read it because it's in $HOME, so where should I put that file and
>> how do I put it there? Now the question seems pointless because if
>> understood correctly $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT is mostly used for writing
>> files. Then, I'm guessing the case scenario is this: if you have
>> read-only files then it is ok to leave them in $HOME; if you have
>> read-write files then you should write them to
>> $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data. My question now is: if you have a
>> configuration file with some preset values that goes in the bundle and
>> the user changes it, the application should be able to read it from
>> $HOME the first time, copy the original file from $HOME to
>> $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data and then use that copy in the future ?
>
>
> Not sure if this will help, but Moon-5 implements a couple of things that
> seem similar to what you might be after. I still need to do a cleanup of
> various source odds and ends, but have a look at the moon.py blob at:
>
>        http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/moon;a=tree
>
> The "read_and_parse_preferences" method should be helpful, as should
> "write_file", basically it's storing and retrieving a couple of values***
> into $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data/defaults so that the view settings will now
> stick. The settings are also going into the Journal entry, with Journal data
> taking precedents over default data (so resumes pickup where they left off
> and clean activity launches inherit the last used defaults).
>
> *** I was recommended to use json as a general way of storing preference
> like data as it's a clean text format that can potentially be parsed easily
> by other code if needed.
>
> --Gary
>