Difference between revisions of "Features/SimpleActivity"
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| − | We have a lot of repeated | + | We have a lot of repeated code across our activities and some commonalities that can be consolidated. Also, why not make some things simpler, like creating the toolbar automatically with an activity icon. |
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| − | You just | + | Also included in this feature is SharedActivity, which is a class that derives from SimpleActivity, and does all the collaboration process by itself: you don't have to worry about dbus, tubes, telepathy, even about the service, path or interface name. SharedActivity will do everything for you. |
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| + | You just define a list of "events" with the respective callbacks to execute when an event is received, and then start sending events! | ||
== Benefit to Sugar == | == Benefit to Sugar == | ||
Revision as of 21:21, 21 November 2013
Summary
SimpleActivity is a module that does in a simple way things common to every Sugar activity; it also provides a much simpler way to implement sharing in an activity.
Owner
- Name: Agustin Zubiaga
- Email: <aguz at sugarlabs dot org>
Current status
- Last updated: 21/11/13
- Percentage of completion: "100%"
Detailed Description
We have a lot of repeated code across our activities and some commonalities that can be consolidated. Also, why not make some things simpler, like creating the toolbar automatically with an activity icon.
Also included in this feature is SharedActivity, which is a class that derives from SimpleActivity, and does all the collaboration process by itself: you don't have to worry about dbus, tubes, telepathy, even about the service, path or interface name. SharedActivity will do everything for you.
You just define a list of "events" with the respective callbacks to execute when an event is received, and then start sending events!
Benefit to Sugar
Since this module can make a lot of processes in a very simple way, starter-developers can make his own Sugar Activity, much easier, and in this way we can get much more activities, and other very interesting things.
Scope
Really, it doesn't stop anything working, developers can use SimpleActivity/SharedActivtiy and continue doing everything that did before, you can use its methods to add a button, or manually like before.
How To Test
You can clone this demo activity which uses many SimpleActivity's features.
User Experience
Actually, the user won't be feel the difference, but we can make more Activities for him/her!
Dependencies
Nothing, just copy simpleactivity.py into your activity directory, and make everything simpler!
Documentation
You can found the documentation in docstrings for now. Web docs soon.