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=== I am having trouble getting my activity to launch, and nothing is showing up in my logs. What gives? === | |||
It is advisable to begin the bulk of your activity's launch process in a call to gobject.idle_add. | |||
<pre> | |||
import gobject | |||
... | |||
class MyCoolActivity(activity.Activity): | |||
def __init__(self, handle): | |||
activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle) | |||
#wait a moment so that our debug console capture mistakes | |||
gobject.idle_add( self._initme, None ) | |||
def _initme( self, userdata=None ): | |||
#start writing your cool activity here | |||
</pre> | |||
=== How do I retrieve the top level logging directory on my XO? === | === How do I retrieve the top level logging directory on my XO? === | ||
The following code prints out the standard directory for logging in sugar. | The following code prints out the standard directory for logging in sugar. | ||
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I am having trouble getting my activity to launch, and nothing is showing up in my logs. What gives?
It is advisable to begin the bulk of your activity's launch process in a call to gobject.idle_add.
import gobject ... class MyCoolActivity(activity.Activity): def __init__(self, handle): activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle) #wait a moment so that our debug console capture mistakes gobject.idle_add( self._initme, None ) def _initme( self, userdata=None ): #start writing your cool activity here
How do I retrieve the top level logging directory on my XO?
The following code prints out the standard directory for logging in sugar.
from sugar import logger
...
print logger.get_logs_dir()