Summer of Code/2014/bulletinboard

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Sugar Bulletin Board



Bulletin Board is a project under Google Summer Of Code which aims at building an interface to promote interaction among users on an activity.

For detailed information refer to the link - Summer of Code/2014/native/Bulletin Board.

Chat Channel

It is overlaid on any activity and is a spatially contextual chatting interface comprising of chat bubbles throughout the screen.

For detailed information about the project refer to Bulletin Board Proposal, Summer of Code/2014/native/Bulletin Board.

Instructions to setup on any Sugar Activity


  • Also in the sugar-artwork, include the icon hand1.svg and add it in the corresponding Makefile.
  • In the activity code base, search for the Activity class i.e, Class which inherits activity.Activity of sugar3. - OficinaActivity in case of Paint Activity
  • Import BulletinBoard class from sugar toolkit - from sugar3.activity.widgets import BulletinBoard
  • Initialize an object of the class say self.board - self.board = BulletinBoard(self).
  • Insert self.board in the activity container (depends on activity) - refer to Paint Activity.
  • Also insert the bulletin button - self.board.button at the end of the activity toolbar box.


That's it ! Bulletin chat channel is ready for use with the activity !

Hand Icon to be included - Hand1.svg

Screenshots and Demo


Bulletin new.png



Short Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjLfKBn4BQ


Bulletin Frame

- github repo - https://github.com/native93/bulletinframe

  Steps -  
 
    * Clone the repository inside sugar/src/jarabe/.
    * Add the new dir "bulletinframe" in the Makefile present in the folder.

Demo


Short Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3NPUTEczmU

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