etoys-dev July 2007

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Re: [Etoys] #2535 NORM Untriag: Etoys tries to open PNG as project
by Zarro Boogs per Child 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

#2535: Etoys tries to open PNG as project -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: bert | Owner: etoys Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Untriaged Component: etoys-activity | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Verified: 0 | -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Changes (by bert): * owner: jg => etoys * component: distro => etoys-activity -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2535#comment:1> One Laptop Per Child <http://laptop.org/>

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[Etoys] Dear Etoys Translation Volunteers
by Takashi Yamamiya 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Hello, Korakurider and I are working on making translation template now. There are a lot of tasks, and some might be good to do for other etoys volunteer developers. So I summarize current status. To generate gettext files and templates, use 'gettext' menu on LanguageEditor in the world menu. If you are curious developer, let's try following instruction. - download developer's image from http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPC-Etoys070726.zip. - load code updates. - Do it GetTextExporter2 verifyExport. This expression exports example .po files, and imports them back. - Change the language to 'dst'. You will see weird user interface e.g. if you show the world menu, the title will be "XWorldX" instead of "World". This is a good sign. Both "X" denotes that this word can be translated by gettext files. - If you find a word lacking "X" in the user interface, let's fix it. To fix the issue. You need to modify the source code. Basic idea is same as gettext. But instead of gettext() and gettext_noop(), we use #translated and #translatedNoop. Almost simple cases have been finished, so maybe you need to try the case of #translatedNoop. 'Hello' translated. # 'Hello' will be registered to the template, and translated in same place. 'Hello' translatedNoop. # 'Hello' will be registered to the template, but it isn't translated now. # This method is necessary because sometimes the original keyword is needed. When you make a good change set. Please post the file to https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2133 or this list or my email address. If you like statistics, this program shows interesting numbers to the Transcript. GetTextExporter2 coverageStatus. # Abe-san have already volunteered to fix balloon helps in flaps. Cheers, - Takashi

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[Etoys] New version
by root＠crank.laptop.org 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Updating from 5303ff4ff72fd1d8708d636b9df58748a9df6e22 to 6a73f403d64a4c97410391d343cda8cf0bb50486 Fast forward ChangeLog | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Content.revision | 2 +- Makefile.in | 20 +++++++++++---- NEWS | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++ activity-etoys.svg | 45 ++++++++-------------------------- activity.info.in | 2 +- configure.ac | 12 +++++---- etoys-instance | 2 +- etoys.spec | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++ etoys.xml | 16 ++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) create mode 100644 etoys.xml commit 6a73f403d64a4c97410391d343cda8cf0bb50486 Author: Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de> Date: Wed Jul 25 23:41:04 2007 +0200 fixes for 1914, 2256, 2313, 2343, 2398 - provide shared-mime-info magic file - fixed icon (eben) - declare mime-types in activity.info - fix typo in etoys-instance script - content rev 30: - 1468datastore-bf: Make resuming a project from datastore work (like after downloading a project). Also allow saving to and loading from datastore. - 1467DBus-Core-bf-34: fix dbus error handling - 1466SqueakToUtf8-ar: conversion from and to UTF-8 - 1465TransExportUI-tak: Modify Language Editor UI for Korakurider's new gettext exporter. - 1464TransExport3-KR: package pot by top-category of class excluding Morphic-*, export wordings and documentions - 1463relBuilderBinIcons-yo: Release Builder creates icons. U Content/etoys.image Updated to revision 30. Creating http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1 bert etoys 16835677 2007-07-25 17:45 etoys-image-and-pr.zip

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[Etoys] Projects and Journal
by Bert Freudenberg 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

We need to think about the user experience of Etoys projects on the XO. If someone is not yet familiar with the idea of the Journal, please read http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/ The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal Projects are the fundamental unit of work in Etoys. So we want to keep them in the Journal and resume them. However, that should be mostly automatic, in contrast to the explicit save dialogs we use on regular PCs. Also, we cannot save the whole image. I don't think kids work the same with projects as Alan does. And I'm not sure if Alan ever worked in the browser version of etoys, I only know his images which have a gazillion projects preloaded ... But, ideally the user experience should be *as if* the image was indeed snapshot continuously. Here's an idea I came up together with Michael: We always ever have only one single project loaded at a time. This is good for limited RAM. Before entering a different project, we store the current one in the Journal. Then after we are in the new project, purge from memory the old one. On startup, we might want to load the latest project in the Journal. This would be analog to "image saving". I am working on saving to / retrieving from the Journal. This will hook into the old project saving logic for now. But I think something along the lines above is needed, too. As for performance, with the better book morph support we do have now, perhaps having a thread of projects isn't really that important? Some more thoughts below ... Versions The Journal will keep each version of the file. To keep down on disk size, it is supposed to only store differences between versions. That means we need to store projects in a way that enables diffing. A textual representation for projects helps with this, but if we are going to compress it, we need to take special care (for example, like the "rsyncable" gzip option http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/206). We might also want to know if actually something changed in a project, that is, wether we need to save it or not. Might be hard. Meta data For finding projects in the Journal we will want to add some keywords. That could be strings the kid put into the project or player names (if not automatically generated), maybe even variable names - everything someone typed might be useful for retrieving the project. - Bert -

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[Etoys] Current status of the update stream?
by Takashi Yamamiya 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Hi Bert, Is current status of the update stream still freezing? I have more change sets about gettext though, I'm hesitate to post them because these are related with a parts bin etc., so it is possible to break something in UI. What do you think about that? Cheers, - Takashi

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[Etoys] How to translate Etoys
by Tibi 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Hi everyone! I want to translate Etoys (I saw it's already translated in Spanish, Japanese etc.) in Romanian, but can't find the .mo files with the existing translations. Can anybody point me these .mo files' location and maybe the steps I have to take in order my translation to appear in the official release of Etoys? Thanks in advance. tb

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[Etoys] "Could not activate this xo" error
by Tibi 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hello everybody! I followed the autoreinstallation steps discribed here<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image>to upgrade the firmware of my B2 machine to Q2c18 and to install the latest 528 build of XO system. As Bert reported here <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2315>, after all the process worked just fine, after rebooting instead of entering XO GUI, it said "Could not activate this XO" and the serail number. Can anyone point me which is the latest build that works with the latest olpc-auto.zip? Or maybe I've done smth wrong?? (which I doubt actually) Thank you in advance. tb

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[Etoys] Saving an Etoys project in OLPC
by Shayne Czyzewski 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hello, I recently posted a question about integrating an educational game I was creating into the OLPC image. I have created the game in the standard Squeak 3.9 image using standard Morphic calls. To load my code into the OLPC image, I opened the image, and dragged my .mcz file onto the interface, and selected 'Load'. I then opened a Workspace, opened my View by executing a command to start the game, and was able to play. Next, I attempted to save my project so it could be distributed to other OLPC images. I saved the project, but when I closed and re-opened the OLPC image, something strange happened. My project was still visible from the 'Gallery of Projects', but when I selected it to load it complained that it could not find a class that was in my game. It seems that the code is not exported with the project, nor stored in the image. I am pretty new to creating .pr files. Is there a way I can store the code associated with my game into its project file? Or, should I be going about this in a completely different manner? Very rough but playable implemenation can be found for those interested at: http://www.squeaksource.com/UIUC4OLPC, Peg Game Version 6 Thanks in advance, Shayne -- Shayne

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[Etoys] New version
by root＠crank.laptop.org 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Updating from ffd74e0976e33ec87509351b0184e2f7f0862f63 to 5303ff4ff72fd1d8708d636b9df58748a9df6e22 Fast forward ChangeLog | 15 +++++++++++++++ Content.revision | 2 +- Makefile.in | 3 +-- etoys.spec | 12 ++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) commit 5303ff4ff72fd1d8708d636b9df58748a9df6e22 Author: Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de> Date: Thu Jul 19 18:17:33 2007 +0200 Fixes for 2259 and 2301 - fix camera not opening (bf) - 1462networkFix-mir-bf: Fix non-blocking socket connection (mir) Fix getting local host address (bf) - 1461helpTypo-sw: Fixes a typo in the help msg for previous-arrow U Content/etoys.image Updated to revision 29. Creating http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1 bert etoys 16819125 2007-07-19 12:30 etoys-image-and-pr.zip

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[Etoys] Etoys content bundle
by Bert Freudenberg 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Guess we should build an Etoys.xol as outlined at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_content_bundle - Bert - Begin forwarded message: > From: Samuel Klein <sj(a)laptop.org> > Date: July 19, 2007 17:05:23 GMT+02:00 > To: OLPC content/software library discussions > <library(a)lists.laptop.org>, games(a)lists.laptop.org > Subject: xoxo, wiki updates and content bundles > > > Hello all, > > Four updates: > > == xoxo == > We've added some regular summaries of community activities to the > wiki : > please take a look at the xoxo page, and feel free to add sections and > notes you would like to see there. > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xoxo > > We are looking for people to summarize the laptop mailing lists; > let me > know if you would like to do this, or would like to help translate > it into > other languages. > > == Bundles == > There is a new spec for defining content bundles: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_content_bundle > > and step-by-step instructions on making activity & content bundles: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_content_bundle > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_an_activity > > Comments welcome on these pages and on the formats. > > > == Activities for download == > Activities packaged as .xo files currently automatically install > themselves into /home/olpc/Activities when downloaded via the XO > browser. > When you start developing an activity, please be sure it is listed > on the > Activities page > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities > > All downloadable activities on an Activity Grid page separate from the > general activities; if you are developing an activity, make sure it > ends > up on this grid once it is ready for download. > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Grid > > == project pages == > > Finally, if you're working on a project that doesn't yet have its > own wiki > page, please create one for it! > > > Cheers, > SJ > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > Library(a)lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library

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