More Progress

During class on Thursday, we had a major breakthrough with Nutri.  From my last blog post, I mentioned that we found an activity called Log that will help us figure out what the problem is when we try to run our code.  I wasn't that familiar with the code in the first place (Alex is most familiar with it), so I had her take a look at the errors being produced on Thursday.  Within minutes (after tinkering with our code), we finally got Nutri to open up successfully in the Sugar OS!

This was a big breakthrough for us, but there's still plenty to fix.  First of all, the activity didn't function properly when we tried changing things (like setting how many servings the user had, etc.).  Turns out that we lost a few necessary functions to make this work properly (I think Megan had removed them when we were trying to "Sugarize" our activity).  So once we fixed this (and made a few other minor incompatibility changes), Nutri functioned properly.  

The only other coding that is absolutely necessary for us to fix is the window.  Currently, the window within the Sugar OS displays as a separate window inside of Sugar.  This is obviously not ideal.  We want our program to look and feel just like any other activity in Sugar, so we need to figure out how to make our content fit properly in the Sugar window, and not a window of its own.  The Hello World tutorial we followed (along with other examples of sugar activities) use something called a GTK VBox as their outermost container of the Sugar App.  We tried changing ours to this, but it ends up breaking other parts of our code... so we're not sure if this is the solution.

We met again this weekend (on Sunday) to try and fix this.  Unfortunately, we didn't have much success.  Alex wasn't able to attend the meeting, so hopefully once we get with her on our further progress, we should be able to overcome this issue.  Once this is resolved (I'm assuming this will be by tomorrow -- at the latest by Thursday), we'll still be on track.  The only thing we'll need to do before we present will be to create our Wiki page, and send in our activity to (hopefully) be approved.