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[Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that, that will be handy for modders to use. :D

The ppa's are ubuntu-tour-admins /daily and /stable. If you wish I can
add you to the team so you can upload packages. I didn't want it on the
main team because one troublemaker could potentially effect a lot of
people.

    -Alex

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:14 +0000, Anthony Stewart wrote:

> Hi, at the moment any progression requirements or notices are being
> hard coded into ubuntu-tour.py which means that for a new tour to have
> a progression requirement they have to edit the main program file. It
> also means that we could get very cluttered there, and have a load of
> stuff stored in ubuntu-tour which is tour specific.
> 
> 
> 
> I have created a system where the program reads the requirements from
> the html file. For example look at the new firefox_0.html page.
> <!-- "Requirements"
> cancontinue = ("firefox-bin" in os.popen("ps aux | grep
> firefox").read())
> elsemessage = ["Firefox is not running.", "We recommend you to start
> it before continuing."]
> justwarning = True
> "Requirements" -->
> 
> 
> Basically you can write a few lines of Python code between <!--
> "Requirements" and "Requirements" --> . This code needs to set 3
> variables.
> cancontinue, this is a boolean, True of False, (or 1 or 0 as an
> integer if you really want). If it is true, the tour, will progress as
> normal with nothing happening. If it is false, then it will show the
> message elsewarning in a notification like it does at the moment.
> Once if has displayed this message, if just warning is True, then it
> will carry onto the next page anyway, if justwarning is False it will
> stay on the current page.
> 
> 
> You can write as much code as you like in here, you don't even have to
> declare all the variables. The default values for the variables are.
> cancontinue = True
> elsemessage = ["Progression Warning", "We recommend you run the
> relevant program before continuing."]
> justwarning = True
> 
> 
> For example this would be acceptable.
> 
> <!-- "Requirements"
> file = open("/home/file.txt")
> cancontinue = ("firefox-bin" in file.read())
> elsemessage = ["Firefox is not running.", "We recommend you to start
> it before continuing."]
> "Requirements" -->
> 
> 
> It is important that that it starts <!-- "Requirements" and
> ends "Requirements" -->.
> Only the code within these blocks will be run. And it will only try
> and run the code if both of those strings exist in the right order.
> If you have 2 declarations, only the first one will be used.
> 
> 
> At the moment it only works in html files, files that end .html as
> plain text files have the script messed up when they are formatted.
> 
> 
> To see this in action, pull the latest revision, and try the firefox
> page. (English only at the moment)
> You shouldn't notice any difference.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ps. What is the address of the ppa?