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George,<div><br></div><div>I am curious why start on a new activity? The Develop activity is well along and needs bug fixing and updating. A debugger would be a nice addition to it.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop</a> </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/develop">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/develop</a></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 254, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 254, 255); "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; ">linux - the best things in life are free</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:56 PM, George Hunt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am excited about developing a tool to help me develop other XO Activities. When I shared my ideas with Adam Holt, he suggested that I seek a mentor, or a few partners to help me clarify my ideas, and increase the usefulness of the end product. I am writing this to request such help. <br> <br>As a programmer, I'm fairly new to python. I started writing assembly language in 1975 for the terminal division of Hewlett--Packard, which was soon to become the Personal Computer division. I only started python after I got my G1G1 in early 2008. <br> <br>I'm fairly averse to re-inventing the wheel. So I have been thinking of combining Activities that already run on the XO as my main strategy.<br><br>At this point I have hacked together Write, Terminal, and Browse to all exist in a notebook under the Sugar toolbar. I can read and write Activity.xo files from the journal. So I've learned a lot from what is already written. Whatever the final form factor, the work I've done up to now will not be lost.<br> <br>At this point I'm debating whether to substitute gedit for the functionality of abiword. Gedit includes many of the feature a programmer is looking for. It is extensively internationalized. It has a python extension system that I think will make for easy integration into my application. <br> <br>I'm leaning towards the structure of a remote debugger, even though the client and server will mostly reside on the same machine. I'd like for the application to be insulated from errant client programs. <br> <br>I'm having a lot of fun, and feeling much more productive than I did a few months ago.<br><br>I'd love to hear from a few people who are willing to help me perfect my ideas or have experience that could keep me from going down unfruitful paths. I've written a wiki page trying to pull together some of my ideas: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_Debugger_activity_for_the_XO" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_Debugger_activity_for_the_XO</a>. There is also a little more bio info about me at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:GeorgeHunt" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:GeorgeHunt</a>d<br> <br>Thanks,<br><br>George<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Devel mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>