[sugar] QUERY REGARDING INTERFACING OF TOOLBAR

[Preeti KS]

Thanks for the quick response..The xocom is at
http://github.com/lukec/xocom/tree/master
I will definitely go through the codes you have sent. After studying that, I
will try to get back to SocialCalc again..
Regards
Preeti


On 7/24/08, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> where is the xocom source repository?
>
> I know nothing about xocom, but I recommend you to code a simple
> python-only activity first to familiarize with that part of the
> problem, and only then coming back to the SocialCalc Activity. Take a
> look to this activity:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~marco/Edit-1.xo
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/marco/edit-activity;a=blob;f=editactivity.py;h=bb2e98e27f236e716fb47faad952ac35fb827ab9;hb=HEAD
>
> Good luck,
>
> Tomeu
>
> 2008/7/24 Preeti KS <kspreeti.13 at gmail.com>:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >     I have been working on the toolbar of the SocialCalc Activity. In
> this
> > activity, a Spreadsheet was being made. The main programme has been
> written
> > in Javascript. whereas the function call has been made from Python.
> Hence, a
> > package called xocom was made to felicitate communication between JS and
> > Python.
> >    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,
> > however, as I am not very adept with JS, I am facing problems interfacing
> > the toolbar.py file with the Javascript file. I have attached the
> relevent
> > files with this email and also at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:SocialCalc-toolbar.zip .
> > 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.
> >
> > 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()
> >
> > Now, my problem is that, the xocom class connects the socialcalc.py file
> > with the Javascript file, socialcalc.js and xocom.js. I am unable to make
> > out, whether I have to make changes in the JS file, and what changes to
> > make.
> >
> > I would be obliged if someone who has been designing toolbars, can help
> me
> > out with this interfacing problem.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > KS Preeti,
> > Team Member,
> > SocialCalc Team
> >
> >
> >
> >
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