Journal integration for Scratch

[Philipp Kocher]

You are right. It doesn't work like that, but the filename is quite
important to me. It is shown in the Scratch GUI and it is an important
marker to find the project, when save and not save as is used.
I wouldn't just take the object_id. What do you think John?

There is a bug in Scratch version 12. The symbolic link of the Project
directory doesn't get created (Open Projects shows Scratch.activity
folder instead). I checked the scripts (scratch-activity and
scratch-wrapper) but couldn't find where the link should get created.

Regards,
Philipp

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> The script looks good, except for the name mangling magic (which is a 
> bit hard to understand because of mis-indentations). This wouldn't even 
> work with your XO's language set to non-English (which the majority of 
> XOs use).
> 
> I would simply name the file "$object_id.sb".
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On 14.01.2009, at 07:04, Philipp Kocher wrote:
> 
>> Hi John
>>
>> Yes, we need the mimetypes.xml file as well (thanks Tomeu I forgot the 
>> USB flash drive use case). I have tested the attached mimetypes.xml. 
>> It is working fine. Put it in the activity directory.
>>
>> Furthermore we have to change the scratch-activity script, so the 
>> parameter with the scratch project object-id gets converted 
>> (copy-from-journal) in a file and passed on to scratch. See the 
>> attached scratch-activity script. I am not an expert with bash 
>> scripts, so please give feedback.
>>
>> I would like to extend the script so project files in the journal 
>> directory are copied back to the journal after exiting scratch, but 
>> for opening project it should work fine.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Philipp
>>
>> John Maloney wrote:
>>> Hi, Phillip.
>>> Thanks for all your hard work in tracking this down. I had looked at 
>>> several other packages, including EToys, and couldn't figure out from 
>>> them how to do this.
>>> I will make these changes to the next XO Scratch bundle.
>>> Is that all I need to do? What about the mime types XML file similar 
>>> to the one added by Etoys? Does that turn out to be unnecessary?
>>>    -- John
>>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Philipp Kocher wrote:
>>>> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:50, Bert Freudenberg 
>>>>> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>>>> So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the
>>>>>>>> Journal
>>>>>>>> (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather 
>>>>>>>> than the
>>>>>>>> generic document icon?
>>>>>>> Shipping a mimetypes.xml file inside the bundle as explained here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#Bundle_Structure
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sugar will call update-mime-database and will merge that file 
>>>>>>> into the
>>>>>>> xdg mime database.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think that John is already trying this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Guess I'm confused then - I thought that's exactly what Philipp 
>>>>>> had done.
>>>>> I think he just changed the mime_types field in the .info file.
>>>>>> And I just checked and it does work with Etoys projects. When 
>>>>>> downloading
>>>>>> one it indeed gets an etoys icon (although at a smaller size - why 
>>>>>> is that?)
>>>>> No idea, though I think that the mime database is updated in the etoys
>>>>> rpm and not in the bundle, am I right?
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Tomeu
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Tomeu to lead me to the /home/olpc/.local directory. However, 
>>>> the
>>>> mimetypes.xml is not necessary to get the icon in the journal. I just
>>>> had to copy the scratch icon file in the activity directory to
>>>> "application-x-scratch-project.svg" (also in the scratch activity
>>>> dirctory). The Memorize Activity is a good example for using that 
>>>> feature.
>>>> Sugar has to be restarted after installing Scratch to show the icon.
>>>>
>>>> John, could you please make the following changes in the next Scratch
>>>> version:
>>>> - add the line "mime_types = application/x-scratch-project" to the
>>>> activity.info file
>>>> - copy the scratch icon to "application-x-scratch-project.svg" in the
>>>> activity directory
>>>>
>>>> Etoys gets configured by different packages. e.g. the rpm
>>>> etoys-3.0.2153-1.noarch is adding the file
>>>> /usr/share/mime/packges/etoys.xml and the rpm 
>>>> sugar-artwork-0.82.3-1.olpc3 is
>>>> adding the file
>>>> /usr/share/icons/sugar/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-squake-project.svg. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Philipp
>>>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
>>   <mime-type type="application/x-scratch-project">
>>     <comment>Scratch Project</comment>
>>     <glob pattern="*.sb"/>
>>   </mime-type>
>> </mime-info>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # Author: Bert Freudenberg
>> # Modified by: John Maloney
>> # Purpose: Run Scratch using the Squeak virtual machine
>>
>> echo "scratch-activity"
>> echo "$@"
>>
>> echo "$0" "$@"
>> echo
>>
>> # arguments are unordered, have to loop
>> args=""
>> while [ -n "$2" ] ; do
>>    case "$1" in
>>          -b | --bundle-id)   bundle_id="$2"   ; args="$args BUNDLE_ID 
>> $2" ;;
>>          -a | --activity-id) activity_id="$2" ; args="$args 
>> ACTIVITY_ID $2";;
>>          -o | --object-id)   object_id="$2"   ; args="$args OBJECT_ID 
>> $2";;
>>     -u | --uri)         uri="$2"         ; args="$args URI $2";;
>>     *) echo unknown argument $1 $2 ;;
>>    esac
>>    shift;shift
>> done
>>
>> # really need bundle id and activity id
>> if [ -z "$bundle_id" -o -z "$activity_id" ] ; then
>>  echo ERROR: bundle-id and activity-id arguments required
>>  echo Aborting
>>  exit 1
>> fi
>>
>> # some debug output
>> echo launching $bundle_id instance $activity_id
>> [ -n "$object_id" ] && echo with journal obj $object_id
>> [ -n "$uri"       ] && echo loading uri $uri
>> echo
>>
>> # do not crash on dbus errors
>> export DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0
>>
>> if [ -n "$object_id" ] ; then
>>     JOURNAL_DIR="$SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data/Journal"
>>     mkdir -p "$JOURNAL_DIR"
>>     temp_filename="$JOURNAL_DIR/temp.sb"
>>     title=`copy-from-journal -o "$object_id" -m "$temp_filename" | 
>> grep "title "`
>>     # title is something like this for files downloaded from server:
>>     #       title -> File do_math_3.sb from 
>> http://schoolserver/Scratch/do_math_3.sb.
>>     # or like this if copied from USB flash drive:
>>     #       title -> do_math_3
>>     title=${title#*"title -> "} #cut off description
>>     echo "title: $title"
>>
>>     # workaround for copy-from-journal bug (adds another dot before 
>> fileextension)
>>     if [ -f "$JOURNAL_DIR/temp..sb" ] ; then
>>         mv "$JOURNAL_DIR/temp..sb" "$temp_filename"
>>     fi
>>
>>     if [[ "$title" == File*from* ]] ; then # for files downloaded from 
>> server
>>         filename=${title#*"File "} #cut off head until "File "
>>         filename=${filename%" from"*} #cut off tail from " from"
>>             echo "filename: $filename"
>>            full_filename="$JOURNAL_DIR/$filename"
>>            echo "full_filename: $full_filename"
>>            mv "$temp_filename" "$full_filename"
>>     else # for files from USB flash drive
>>         full_filename="$JOURNAL_DIR/$title.sb"
>>                echo "full_filename: $full_filename"
>>                mv "$temp_filename" "$full_filename"
>>     fi
>> else
>>     full_filename=""
>> fi
>> # run Squeak VM with Scratch image
>> exec /usr/bin/squeak \
>>     -vm-display-X11 \
>>     -swapbtn \
>>     -sugarBundleId $bundle_id \
>>     -sugarActivityId $activity_id \
>>     ScratchXO.image \
>>     "$full_filename"
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