Hello Everyone: In a recent conversation with Walter, he mentioned that it would be very useful if activities could include examples objects. From my experience in the field, I can tell this feature can be a really useful indeed. Therefore I would like to bring this idea to the general discussion and see what others think.
The idea is simple: Activities include examples objects that can be bundled with and accessed from the activity. For the ones that also think this could be useful: I am sure you must have your own vision of how this feature should work and look like, so please share it here. In general terms and from my POV it should be something: (a) simple to access. (b) with a familiar interface to the users. (c) low-cost for activities developers to include. (d) Safe. One of the ideas, that meets these requirements, is to include a standard "Examples" folder in the activities root directory that would be accessible through a regular ObjetChooser. The ObjectChooser is already capable of presenting any folder's contents, thanks to recent years improvement in the journal to present external-media and documents-folder contents. Accessing to these objects would be as easy as just opening a ObjectChooser instance, many activities already do this (but limited to journal content). As I just said, the ObjectChooser interface is widely used, therefore users are already familiar with it. To ease the costs for activities developers I think that having this standard folder approach is crucial. One open question I still have is how this ObjectChooser should be opened from the activities in a standard way (suggestions?). By "safe" I mean that it should guarantee that it only presents this standard folder objects in read-only mode (at least from the GUI POV). I will stop here and I would like to hear what you guys think regarding the general idea first. Saludos. tincho.
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