Code walk-through desired

[Morgan Collett]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 00:31, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> As many of you already know, I have written a couple of Activities
> called Read Etexts and View Slides.  For the most part they work pretty
> well, however they are written entirely in Python by someone who learned
> the language mostly by cutting and pasting code from other applications
> and reading articles found via The Google.  As someone who has
> programmed for a living for over thirty years (Java, C, COBOL, BAL), I
> have to wonder if I really know what I'm doing, or if there is a better
> way to do what I'm trying to do.  For instance, I wanted to show
> progress messages when a user is receiving a shared document, and to do
> that I needed to return control to the pygtk mainloop after each message
> so the screen could be redrawn.  What I did works just fine in View
> Slides, but the same exact code in Read Etexts just makes the Activity
> hang, so I commented it out.  Is it because Read Etexts uses
> multi-threading?  Or is what I'm doing just *wrong* and somehow I'm
> getting away with it in View Slides?
>
> What I could really use, if any of you have the time and inclination to
> do it, is a code walkthrough.  If you look at my code and see something
> you don't like, tell me about it, and maybe point me to an article that
> will help me do it better.  You can find my code by looking at the
> Activities -- All page and following the links to my sugarlabs git
> repositories.
>
> I'm thinking about adding an annotation and highlighting feature to Read
> Etexts.  I've described my ideas on that in the Read Etexts page in the
> wiki.  If anyone has suggestions on how I might implement those ideas in
> Python and pygtk please pass them along.
>
> The members of this list have been extremely helpful in making these
> Activities as good as they have become.  Thanks,
>
> James Simmons

Perhaps you meant to send this to the sugar-devel list?

Regards
Morgan