[sugar] Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

[Faisal Anwar]

Thanks! I'll make an effort to include these in the almanac.

Faisal

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Martin Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi Faisal,
>           You might want to gather together the documentation we wrote
> for abiwidget which explains how to embed the collaborative Rich Text
> widget (as used by write) in python programs.
>
> The links are on our wiki here:
>
>
> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiWidget
>
> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PyAbiWord
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:34 -0400, Faisal Anwar wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > As many of you know, I'm writing up a sugar almanac to help new
> > sugar/python developers get up and running with creating useful
> > activities. I will try to send frequent updates in terms of what has
> > been added. In addition to using the documentation, I'd appreciate it
> > if people familiar with the different modules I am writing can send
> > any better or alternative code examples to the ones that I have
> > written. Review and feedback is ALWAYS appreciated.
> >
> > This week, I have updated the section on how to do many of the basic
> > activity creation tasks (see
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar.activity.activity). In addition, I've
> > provided some basic examples of how to read and write your activity to
> > the datastore so that it can be resumed later from the journal. Below
> > is a list of the different how to's contained in this section of the
> > almanac. Hope some of these ring a bell in terms of what you all are
> > trying to get done!
> >       * 1 Helper Functions in sugar.activity.activity
> >               * 1.1 How do I get the file path for my activity bundle?
> >               * 1.2 How do I get the file path where I can write files
> >                 programmatically?
> >               * 1.3 How do I get the name of my activity?
> >       * 2 Class: Activity
> >               * 2.1 How do I set the canvas (main work area) of my
> >                 activity to a specific UI widget?
> >               * 2.2 What are activity id's? How do I obtain the
> >                 activity id for an instance of my activity?
> >               * 2.3 How do I create a new activity that is derived
> >                 from the base Activity class?
> >               * 2.4 How do I implement a write_file method for my
> >                 activity in order to persist my activity in the
> >                 journal?
> >               * 2.5 How do I implement a read_file method for my
> >                 activity so that I can resume activities from the
> >                 sugar journal?
> >       * 3 Class: ActivityToolbox (Toolbox)
> >               * 3.1 What is the standard toolbox needed in most
> >                 activities and how do I create it?
> >               * 3.2 How do I get a handle on the standard activity
> >                 toolbar given an ActivityToolbox object?
> >       * 4 Class: ActivityToolbar (gtk.Toolbar)
> >       * 5 Class: EditToolbar (gtk.Toolbar)
> >               * 5.1 How do I add a standard edit toolbar to my
> >                 activity?
> >               * 5.2 How do I hide a button in the edit toolbar that is
> >                 not needed in my activity?
> >               * 5.3 How do I disable and enable a button on the edit
> >                 toolbar?
> >
> > You can also find the homepage for the documentation at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar-api-doc.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Faisal
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