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Wade,<br>
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I'll have to check out the code in Colors! What I really need is some
sample code and some good docs on the APIs available. What I have now
was copied from the Read activity, and not all of it is clear to me.
If I understood what APIs were available that would be a big help. I
will welcome feedback on my code once I have something good enough to
criticize, but I'm not there yet.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
James Simmons<br>
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Wade Brainerd wrote:
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type="cite">Hey James,
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<div>I can help you out with this if you want.</div>
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<div>Your collaboration design sounds fine to me. I did something
similar in Colors! where certain parts of the UI are disabled on the
joining instances.</div>
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<div>What point are you at now? Do you need an example to get
started with, or feedback about existing code, or just ideas about
which APIs to use? </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Wade</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:55 PM, James
Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jim.simmons@walgreens.com">jim.simmons@walgreens.com</a>></span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Benjamin,<br>
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I had been using two machines to develop my Activities. One ran Xubuntu<br>
and used the sugar packages provided with the Sugar Live CD that someone<br>
made up. These were not perfect, but it was a simpler way to set up a<br>
Sugar test environment than anything else available at the time. My<br>
second box was running openSUSE 10.2 and I attempted to install<br>
Sugar-jhbuild on it with middling success. I had both pointing to the<br>
Collabora server to test sharing, and what I found was the sharing<br>
through that server worked OK for small files (like Read Etexts used)<br>
but took forever for slideshows, and frequently ran out of gas in the<br>
middle of a transfer. As for collaboration between two instances of<br>
Sugar with no jabber server between them, that never worked at all, even<br>
a little bit.<br>
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As of last night both machines have Fedora 10 with the Sugar RPMs<br>
installed, so this should eliminate lots of problems I had in the past.<br>
I don't expect it to make large file transfers through the jabber server<br>
any faster, though. Plus, in my opinion copying a file from one XO to<br>
another would be better done as a function of the Journal. It isn't my<br>
idea of what real collaboration should be. The VNC idea, while<br>
worthwhile, doesn't excite me either.<br>
<br>
As an XO user I have no use for collaboration. I have nobody to play<br>
with. I could strip the collaboration code out of both my Activities<br>
and have something more than adequate for my own use. My goal is to<br>
create Activities that will get other kids excited about using them. My<br>
idea is a modest step in that direction. If I get that much working<br>
other ideas may come.<br>
<br>
I would like to stick with API's that are currently available for a<br>
couple of reasons:<br>
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1). I want to use the Sugar environment in Fedora 10. Now that I<br>
finally have a robust test environment I don't want to lose it.<br>
2). I want to make the Activity available to the largest number of<br>
users possible.<br>
<br>
I think telepathy might do the job for me if I just understood it<br>
better. All I'm asking it to do is send some messages to a list of<br>
buddies and have them initiate some file transfers. Chat is already<br>
doing the first part, I think, and the Read code might be persuaded to<br>
do the second.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
James Simmons<br>
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