[Socialcalc] PROGRESS ON SOCIALCALC

[Preeti KS]

Luke

Thanks for the reply..I'll definitely go through all the codes of the
OnePageWiki Activity. Infact, when I first started studying xocom, I used
the code of OnePageWiki Activity, because of its simple, yet innovative
effort.
I have uploaded the code on the wiki page, but the code repository idea
sounds better. I will definitely look into that, after monday..In the
meantime, I will check out the codes suggested by you.

Thanks again!
Cheers
Preeti

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Luke Closs <luke.closs at socialtext.com>wrote:

> Preeti,
>
> Thank you for this informative email.  I'm glad to see you made some
> progress.
>
> I've got several ideas about how to further extend xocom so that it is easy
> for the python toolbar to call javascript hooks by applications like this.
>  As you can see in this file:
>
>  http://github.com/lukec/onepagewiki/tree/master/OnePageWikiActivity.py
>
> Once you have xocom set up, you can call javascript methods from python
> like this:
>
>  self.xocom.send_to_browser( 'command' )
>
> The OnePageWiki Activity[1] and the socialcalc activity use the 'read' and
> 'write' commands to cause the Socialcalc javascript to load or save a sheet.
>  We should be able to hook up other commands, by providing javascript hooks
> to call.
>
> If you look at this example xocom HTML page, you can see how you'd provide
> new hooks:
>
>  http://github.com/lukec/xocom/tree/master/web/index.html
>
> This is how Socialcalc's index.html provides the read and write commands:
>
>  http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master/web/index.html#L110
>
> Preeti, I would love to see you submitting code somewhere.  Are we using a
> public git repo?  Feel free to fork my socialcalc-xocom[2] project (you can
> sign up for github for free code hosting, it's great).  Once you fork that
> project, you can add your new toolbar code into your repo, and then we can
> share the code easier.  I'll be happy to review your commits to hook this
> stuff together.  You're really close, I think.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
> P.S. - I'm usually in #socialtext or #vhs on irc.freenode.net if you'd
> like to chat.
>
> [1] http://github.com/lukec/onepagewiki/tree/master
> [2] http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master
>
>
>
> On 22-Aug-08, at 12:03 AM, Preeti KS wrote:
>
>>    Long time since there's been activity on this group. I thought I will
>> initiate something. I have been a wee bit busy with other things, and was
>> not in Delhi for a while. But, I did manage to do some testing for
>> SocialCalc.
>>
>> The good news is that xocom is working perfectly. Infact, I have been
>> working on making the toolbar.py file for the release of this activity.
>> While on it, I have made extensive use of xocom. I made the toolbar in
>> Python, and used xocom to create the webview,etc. I also managed to
>> interface the toolbar.py file with the socialcalc.py file. I have attached
>> the relevent files with this email and also at
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:SocialCalc-toolbar.zip .
>> I had mailed earlier with some doubts, some of which actually got cleared
>> when I studied the toolbars of other activities. I thought you might be
>> interested to know exactly how xocom is used in the toolbar. In activities
>> like "Abiword" I noticed that the web view, etc are created using hulahop
>> and webview. As xocom has defined webviews, I have created a class
>> SpredSheetActivityToolbar that uses xocom to create webviews. My toolbar.py
>> file is as follows, these are some code snippets:
>>
>> This is the main spreadsheet activity toolbar, It has used xocom to create
>> the webview..
>>
>> class SpreadSheetActivityToolbar:
>>    def __init__(self, activity, toolbox, self_canvas):
>>        self._activity = activity
>>        self.set_canvas( xocom.create_webview() )
>>        self._activity_toolbar = toolbox.get_activity_toolbar()
>>        self._keep_palette = self._activity_toolbar.keep.get_palette()
>> .........................
>> Then, I have created another class, for the edit toolbar. Its definition
>> is as follows:
>> class SpreadsheetEditToolbar(EditToolbar):
>>    def __init__(self, toolbox, self_canvas):
>>        EditToolbar.__init__(self)
>>        self.set_canvas( xocom.create_webview() )
>> .........
>> This is followed by the general definition of edit toolbar,
>> copy,paste,undo,redo, etc. There is also a viewtoolbar class, for viewing it
>> on hulahoop.
>> Then of course, I had to make changes in the SOcialCalc.py file in order
>> to call this toolbar interface. Here are the details of the SocialCalc.py
>> file:
>> To interface it with toolbar.py, I have imported the classes from this
>> file as:
>>
>> import toolbar
>> from toolbar import SpreadSheetActivityToolbar, SpreadsheetEditToolbar,
>> ViewToolbar
>> Then, while creating the toolbar, I have called these functions as:
>>        toolbox = activity.ActivityToolbox(self)
>>        self.set_toolbox(toolbox)
>>        toolbox.show()
>> Separately calling edit toolbar:
>>      self._edit_toolbar = SpreadsheetEditToolbar(self, self._edit_toolbar,
>> set_canvas)
>>        toolbox.add_toolbar(_('Edit'),self._edit_toolbar)
>>        self._edit_toolbar.show()
>> And similarly calling the Viewtoolbar class:
>>        view_toolbar = ViewToolbar (self.set_canvas)
>>        self.set_canvas.show()
>>
>> I had a lot of fun doing this integration work. I am facing a few problems
>> dealing with the Javascript aspect of this whole activity, but to deal with
>> that I am studying JS in detail. So still an advantage. I hope you all will
>> be helping me out with the queries!
>> Apart from that, I also tested the new build for various simulated
>> situations. I have taken snapshots of the same. But due to problems in my
>> net connection, they are not getting attached. I will definitely mail them
>> by Monday.
>>
>> Thanks and warm regards,
>> Preeti
>>
>>
>
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