How make a full screen Flash activity opened using hulahop.webview.WebView close from Flash?

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu May 16 14:02:52 EDT 2013


Maybe check on how Tomeu did his EatBloom activity:

http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~tomeu/EatBoom-1.xo

-walter


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Frank Cancio <frank at gsc.uy> wrote:
> Thanks again for your reply Gonzalo. Anyway I will keep trying to
> figure out what the problem is, because is important for the
> application run in full screen.
>
> Best regards
> Frank
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>> My best advice is use a standard toolbar and your webview.
>> The standard toolbar not only contain the stop button,
>> also the title and description widgets,
>> important to journal interaction,
>> and provide consistency with other activities.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Frank Cancio <frank at gsc.uy> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick reply!
>>>
>>> Yes, my app will run on a XO-1, Sugar 0.94.1.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Do you need your activity run in old Sugar versions?
>>> > Because hulahop is deprecated, and new Browse use webkit.
>>> >
>>> > Gonzalo
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Frank Cancio <frank at gsc.uy> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have Flash activity in which all user interaction is done through
>>> >> Flash. Basically what I did was create a hulahop.webview.WebView
>>> >> instance and make it load a HTML (see code at the end) that load a
>>> >> .swf file in full screen. So far so good, the problem come when I try
>>> >> close the entire activity from inside Flash UI (with a close button).
>>> >>
>>> >> One solution I saw was try to enable the "window.close();" JavaScript
>>> >> sentence and then from the Flash app "execute it". I create a simple
>>> >> HTML file with just a button and a "window.close();" in the onclick
>>> >> event and make it work using the Browse activity. For that, I changed
>>> >> the gecko profile used by the Browse activity (setting the variable
>>> >> "dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows" to true). That made possible
>>> >> close the entire Browse activity using the "window.close();"
>>> >> JavaScript sentence.  I did the same with my activity but nothing,
>>> >> even I made it using the same profile that worked for the Browse
>>> >> activity, but the "window.close();" JavaScript sentence don't work in
>>> >> my activity.
>>> >>
>>> >> I think that the problem is related to the way my activity manager the
>>> >> hulahop.webview.WebView instance. I know Python but I'm a completely
>>> >> newbie in GTK, Sugar and hulahop, and  is hard to me find out the
>>> >> problem. I write to this list hoping that someone with the enough
>>> >> experience in those tech could take few minutes and help me.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks in advance
>>> >> Frank
>>> >>
>>> >> hulahop.startup(os.path.join(env.get_profile_path(), 'gecko'))
>>> >> from hulahop.webview import WebView
>>> >>
>>> >> HTML = os.getcwd()+'/index.html'
>>> >>
>>> >> class SierratestActivity(activity.Activity):
>>> >>         def __init__(self, handle):
>>> >>                 activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle, False)
>>> >>
>>> >>                 canvas = gtk.HBox()
>>> >>                 self.set_canvas(canvas)
>>> >>
>>> >>                 self.browser = WebBrowser()
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> canvas.pack_start(self.browser.getBrowser(),True,True,0)
>>> >>                 self.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
>>> >>                 self.show_all()
>>> >>
>>> >>         def destroy(self, widget=None):
>>> >>                 sys.exit(0)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> class WebBrowser():
>>> >>         def __init__(self):
>>> >>                 self.browser = None
>>> >>
>>> >>         def getBrowser(self):
>>> >>                 self.browser = WebView()
>>> >>                 self.browser.load_uri(HTML)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> return self.browser
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