Re: Python embedding and UI files

On 7/5/06, Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/06, Erik Pukinskis <erikpukinskis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Now that I've got a basic familiarity with OLPC Sugar, I am trying to
> > dig into the AbiWord codebase, and I'm a bit lost... maybe someone can
> > help me with a couple of questions:
> >
> > 1) Where is the UI-related code, particularly the toolbars? I poked
> > around in the directory tree, but I couldn't really find anything.
>
> The code is in
> abi/src/af/ev/unix/ev_UnixToolbar.cpp
> Often i'm ending up grepping the source tree because it's too big and
> nested for my brain. In this case the search token was "GtkToolbar".
>
> As a general approach, maybe it helps looking how the Nokia 770
> version implements some classes. They are distinguished by having
> 'hildon' in their name and can therefore be issuing e.g.
> find . -iname '*hildon*'
>
> > 2) I understand there was code for Python bindings of AbiWidget at
> > some point[1]... is this code in HEAD? If so, can anyone give me any
> > guidance on how to find/use it?
>
> That code is in the LIBABIWORD cvs branch. However, i'm not sure if
> it's of any use because that was pretty much a "sledge and glue"
> approach to turn abiword into a widget.
> You've mentioned that sugar is using GtkPlug/GtkSocket which can embed
> widgets from separate processes. I'd suggest trying to go that route
> unless i'm mistaken.

Oh, i forgot, grep for HAVE_HILDON to find the parts of AbiWord's core
that have been customised for running on the n770.

- Rob
Received on Wed Jul 5 22:46:07 2006