getting shared apps working

[Thomas Uram]

Condensing out of this process the steps for an individual shared app:

At this point, a shared app package consists of two files:  an app file 
that describes the application and an executable (python) file.  The app 
file looks like this:

[application]
name = SharedBrowser
description = A shared web browser for the Access Grid
mimetype = application/x-ag-shared-browser

For each shared app, do this:

- Copy .app file and app client (.py) for application into 
SystemConfigDir/applications/APP
    (e.g., copy SharedBrowser.app and SharedBrowser.py into
     SystemConfigDir/applications/SharedBrowser)
- Put an entry in the mailcap file (location below)
    (e.g., pointing at 
SystemConfigDir/applications/SharedBrowser/SharedBrowser.py)

As far as I know, that's all we need to do to install a shared app.  Bob 
might comment about the SharedPresentation using a .bat file, since I'm 
not sure whether/why something special is being done there.

Tom



Robert Olson wrote:

> Check out the AG stuff from CVS. Pick a directory in which to  put hte 
> AG config stuff; let's call it c:\agconfig for now.
>
> cd to the top level of the checked out directory.
>
> Run
>
>     python bin\CvsSetup.py -a . -d c:\agconfig
>
> This creates a file env-init.bat; run this at the shell to set up the 
> proper environment variables.
>
> You'll need to create a file
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\AccessGrid\mailcap
>
> that contains this mailcap:
>
> application/x-ag-shared-browser; python 
> AGDIR\sharedapps\SharedBrowser.py %s; description=This is the shared 
> browser application; nametemplate=%s.sharedbrowser
> application/x-ag-shared-presentation; 
> AGDIR\sharedapps\SharedPresentation.bat %s; description=This is the 
> shared presentation viewer; nametemplate=%s.sharedpresentation
> application/x-ag-shared-betty; AGDIR\serviceclients\serviceclient.py 
> %s; description=This is the shared betty xmlrpc client; 
> nametemplate=%s.sharedbetty
>
> where AGDIR is the location of the toplevel of your checked-out 
> AccessGrid tree.
>
> You'll also have to copy the *.app files from AccessGrid/sharedapps to 
> your AG configuration dir. Create a direcotry 
> c:\agconfig\applications, then directories SharedBrowser and 
> SharedPresentation underneath it. Copy sharedapps\SharedBrowser.app to 
> the just-created SharedBrowser dir; similarly with SharedPresentation.
>
> In order to use the shared presentation tool, you'll have to edit 
> AccessGrid/sharedapps/SharedPResentation.bat to point to the directory 
> it lives in (so it can find SharedPResentation.py).
>
> (This is all the stuff as well that the installers for the apps will 
> have to do automatically, btw).
>
> --bob
>
>