[sugar] path + emulator

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:17 -0400, jjungcla at gsd.harvard.edu wrote:
> hi guys,
> two really basic questions we couldn't resolve in class this week:
> 1. Using Qemu as emulator on a PC, how do you move a file from Windows to
> the emulated file structure?
> 2. There is a problem with simply loading an image and displaying it on
> the screen using this code below (the image.png file sits right next to
> the application file). The application starts up but shows the
> file-not-found icon in the middle of the screen. How does sugar actually
> handle imgages?
> Thanks guys!
> Jan
> 
> 
> class TouchTyperActivity(activity.Activity):
> 
>     def hello(self, widget, data=None):
>         logging.info('Image Load Activity')
>     def __init__(self, handle):
>         activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle)
>         ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
>         self.image = gtk.Image()
>         pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(ROOT + "image.png")

This looks wrong, ROOT will not have a leading / and the resulting path
will be incorrect.

This should work better:

os.path.join(activity.get_bundle_path(), 'image.png')

Marco