Dear Localization Team,<br><br>One of the members of the Support Gang (Jim Simmons) has been working on a text on coding activities in Sugar. He has recently added a section teaching Activity authors how to go about getting their activity set up for localization. The book is shaping up nicely and Jim would welcome your input.<br>
<br>cjl<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Simmons</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM<br><br>As many of you know, I've been working on a handbook for creating<br>
Sugar Activities and I have added another couple of chapters to it (on<br>
Pootle and distributing your Activity) and made numerous corrections<br>
to earlier chapters, many of them based on suggestions you made.<br>
Stuff still to do:<br>
<br>
Text To Speech chapter<br>
Collaboration chapter<br>
Sugar Activity Debugging chapter (which may include information on<br>
using a library Walter Bender created for running Sugar Activities<br>
outside of Sugar)<br>
New Style Toolbars chapter (including how to support both styles in<br>
one Activity)<br>
PyGame chapter or chapters<br>
<br>
The sequence these chapters will appear is negotiable. For now I'm<br>
just trying to get them written, going from easiest to hardest.<br>
<br>
I have not been able to get a pre-publish done so the website link I<br>
gave out last week still points to the old content. However, I have<br>
been able to use OBJAVI to create a really beautiful PDF 73 pages long<br>
(including code samples and screenshots) that has the latest content.<br>
I think there is enough written so far that if I got run over by a bus<br>
someone could still use this to learn how to write an Activity. If<br>
you have thought about writing your own Activity you might check this<br>
out with Read and see if you agree. Other kinds of feedback would be<br>
most welcome as well.<br>
<br>
The URL of the PDF is:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf" target="_blank">http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
James Simmons<br>
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