hi -- newbie activity developer here. i'm trying to get an existing app working as an activity, and i'm trying to keep it "well behaved"
i don't quite understand the SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT variable. the wiki says that it's "Writable space for the activity.... Activities are prohibited from writing anywhere else in the file system.", and at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Security it refers to three "virtual" subdirectories, and describes the "data", "instance", and "tmp" directories. when i track down its value while my activity runs, it leads to three very un-virtual subdirectories somewhere beneath /home/olpc/.sugar. so... - what's the "virtual" part mean? can the directories referred to by SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT move around? - what if my activity might have larger data needs than can be accomodated on the root fs? what if i'd like to use space on a removeable device? is there a way to manage this? the activity is a street mapping program, with the ability to download map data. map data always takes tens, if not hundreds, of megabytes. (i.e. all of texas takes 300M, all of rhode island takes 8M.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 32.4 degrees) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
