Bert Freudenberg wrote:
retty much feature- complete.
I know feature creep is easy but here are a few items I have thought would be great:
-Some sort of scripting access to Journal files so one can build media players (slideshows, music player etc) without internalizing the files.
That would be cool. Can you imagine how it should look like? We have not had that functionality in Etoys before (like, making a slideshow from a directory of files).
My thought was to add a category to Holders which would look something like Add Journal entry named:(name) Add all Journal entries:(picture, movie or sound) (I'm not sure text would make any sense here) Add all Journal entries named (name + wildcard)(If the I have a bunch of entries named similarly eg: 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2') Add all Journal entries:(picture, movie or sound) from date:(aDate or several dates or time span) ( I have to look into the use case here but dates could be like from January 1 to January 10, a year etc )
I have not grokked Journal yet, so this could take some time :-) All references to Journal entries should be freed when a project is saved and looked up again when the project is loaded or run.
-Ogg Theora video seems to be the format of the Recording Activity so we should support that.
We hope to have a gstreamer plugin, which also would support Theora.
Cool
-Diego's Image Processing (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411) and since there is no photo enhancement / adjusting activity I know of it is quite useful.
Did you test this on the XO? Might make a nice activity.
I have not tested it yet. I did test a picture warper from SqueakMap though and that was a lot of fun, you can make long nose, crocked eyes etc
-Export of pictures to Journal
You can copy to the clipboard and add it to the journal from there.
Ok, I have had not been able to add images and sounds from the clipboard to Squeak. Is it a known issue ?
-Enhance the sound and music tools in the image so they look and feel and behave better.
Who could work on that? But it would be great, yes.
I have been looking, not much progress yet.
-Skeleton (http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/11) and further enhance the spread sheet and animation
That would be cool as a project, as well as ODECo.
Yes
Faster project loading could make diverse activities possible by quick loading of features.
That's stuff I wouldn't count as "new feature". And Luke seems to be onto something there ...
That is good.
Karl
Did I forget anything ? :-)
Certainly, and me too ;)
- Bert -
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