Automated Launching: Go!

Using just about the most obscure Python code I have ever written, I have just made sugarbot fully automatable.

It requires a small patch to main.py in the main Sugar directory (/usr/share/sugar/shell/main.py), and adding a file to the same directory. It launches sugarbot by simulating a click on the sugarbot icon in the frame.

Will put the code up on SVN later, it's Pizza time now!

Important Code:

# =========================================================

# The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with the

# current national debt.

boxChildren = self.shell.get_frame()._bottom_panel._bg.get_children()

tray = [k for k in boxChildren if isinstance(k,ActivitiesTray)]

if tray:

children = tray[0]._tray.get_children()

else:

return

activities = [k for k in children if isinstance(k, ActivityButton)]

sbList = [k for k in activities if k._activity_info.name=="sugarbot"]

# ========================================================

if len(sbList) > 0: sbList[0].emit('clicked')

main.py patch:

model = ShellModel()

shell = Shell(model)

service = ShellService(shell)

if os.environ.has_key("SUGARBOT_EMULATOR"):

from sugarbotlauncher import SugarbotLauncher

sbLauncher = SugarbotLauncher(model,shell,service)

try:

gtk.main()

except KeyboardInterrupt:

print 'Ctrl+C pressed, exiting...'