0.86/Write

See also: Write developers' page

Introduction
The Write activity serves as the basic text editing tool in Sugar. Its simple interface provides an easy starting point for children, presenting tools that make writing a story, poem or essay simple and straightforward. It also supports basic tools for inserting images, creating tables, and performing basic layout operations as children begin to require some of these features often associated with word processors.



What's new for users
Write has been converted to the new toolbar design. Along with this change, a number of previously menu driven functions have been separated out as new toolbar buttons for easier access.



67

 * Finished toolbar redesign work

66

 * Revert export button

65

 * Do not propagate current paragraph format while moving cursor

64

 * Utilize new toolbars
 * Write canvas redraw glitch when locking open a secondary toolbar
 * Fix MANIFEST file
 * New Write primary toolbar icon design does not all fit in the toolbar

What is new for developers
''What might be interesting to know for a developer contributing to the component. Add 'No News' if there is nothing of interest.''

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility
Write, as of version 64, currently requires the new 0.86 toolbar design API, and is not compatible with Sugar <= 0.84 releases.

Detailed changes

 * Finished Toolbar redesign work
 * #1145 Do not propagate current paragraph format while moving cursor
 * Features/New Toolbar Design - Adopt to the new activity toolbar design
 * Write canvas redraw glitch when locking open a secondary toolbar
 * Fix MANIFEST file
 * New Write primary toolbar icon design does not all fit in the toolbar
 * Update to API change, render_page_to_image starts now with 1. #152
 * Override get_preview #152
 * Deprecation fix: Use bundle_id instead od service_name

Closed tickets

 * text doesn't appear in Write previews
 * Initialize gthreads at startup
 * Collaboration on write is not working SoaS-1 200903051021
 * Write coloring of text sometimes doesn't work
 * Add Write to a.sl.o
 * spelling dictionary in Write has gone missing
 * Fix MANIFEST file
 * Write canvas redraw glitch when locking open a secondary toolbar
 * New Write primary toolbar icon design does not all fit in the toolbar
 * Issues with two labels in Write-63
 * Do not propagate current paragraph format while moving cursor
 * Write not able to open files that have been opened by OpenOffice running on KUbuntu
 * Write's collab doesn't work in trisquel-edu PPA

Open tickets

 * Write crashes on joining to shared session
 * Write UI "crashes" when collaborator unexpectely disconnects (soas-beta)
 * resizing column width broken in
 * No spell checking in non en language
 * coloring artifacts in Write if using italic text (with non-default color)
 * Use toolbar accelerators in Write
 * Various refreshing glitches
 * Write fails to launch

Credits
Aleksey Lim, Gary C. Martin, Marc Maurer, Simon Schampijer, Walter Bender