[sugar] Hello Journal World!

Kent Loobey kent at uoregon.edu
Thu Feb 28 17:21:26 EST 2008


On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:53:07 Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think what I need to actually get rolling with Sugar development is
> >  a Hello World for the journal.
> >
> >  I'd like to see a tutorial (or just code even) with a Sugar activity
> >  that just takes an entry into a plain text box.  And puts that text
> >  into the journal.  When I click on the journal entry I see the text in
> >  the text box again.  (But I shouldn't have a "save" button?  When do I
> >  save to the journal?)
>
> The activity should keep its state in the journal updated. Of course,
> this can be very expensive, so right now the data is saved at close
> and when another activity gets the focus. At some point we'll want to
> save periodically, but activities will need to grow a way of telling
> is their state is dirty (and probably how much dirty).
>
> >  Obviously existing activities do this kind of thing, but I didn't have
> >  much luck finding out how from digging around (before I gave up and
> >  figured I'd wait for more documentation).
>
> This will get a you a very simple activity that does just that:
>
> git-clone https://dev.laptop.org/~marco/edit-activity

When I run the above I get the following:

/silo/olpc/doc/examples$ git-clone https://dev.laptop.org/~marco/edit-activity
Initialized empty Git repository 
in /silo/olpc/doc/examples/edit-activity/.git/
/usr/bin/git-clone: 310: curl: not found
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

>
> Tomeu
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