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Bulletin Board is a project under Google Summer Of Code which aims at building an interface to promote interaction among users on an activity. | Bulletin Board is a project under Google Summer Of Code which aims at building an interface to promote interaction among users on an activity. | ||
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| − | For detailed information refer to the link - | + | For detailed information refer to the link - [[Summer of Code/2014/native/Bulletin Board]]. |
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==== Chat Channel ==== | ==== Chat Channel ==== | ||
It is overlaid on any activity and is a spatially contextual chatting interface comprising of chat bubbles throughout the screen. | It is overlaid on any activity and is a spatially contextual chatting interface comprising of chat bubbles throughout the screen. | ||
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| − | For detailed information about the project refer to Bulletin Board Proposal [[ | + | For detailed information about the project refer to Bulletin Board Proposal, [[Summer of Code/2014/native/Bulletin Board]]. |
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Revision as of 23:09, 25 July 2014
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
- Clone the sugar toolkit gtk3 repo. - https://github.com/native93/sugar-toolkit-gtk3.
- Also in the sugar-artwork, include the icon hand1.svg and add it in the corresponding Makefile.
- Choose any activity on which you want the Bulletin Board to be overlaid. - Shown as an example for the Paint Activity - https://github.com/native93/Sugar-paint-activity.
- 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 - 
Screenshots and Demo
Short Demo - http://youtu.be/-25pC3nCA3Y