On 09.04.2009, at 06:49, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
Hi Bert,
This is very cool - I looked inside the FreeCell content viewer:
FreeCell activity, please. "Content viewer" does not really apply to Etoys.
this is basically an example that can be used to expose parts of Etoys for example, the speech synthetizer if it still exists, the painting tool, the MPeg player etc, as content or even activity
Right. I tried to communicate this several times before, but it seems to be worth repeating ;) The first was in July 2007 in fact:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2007-July/000684.html
Anyway, you can rather easily make your own Squeak-based activity, even on a Mac or Win box: select a .pr or .st file, and click the "XO" button in the FileList. Voila. You get a skeleton activity that should work out-of-the-box if you install it in Sugar. Then you still have to manually edit it of course, replacing the default icon etc. but it's a fine start and in fact exactly what I did for FreeCell.
(although without the Suger interactions I guess), right?
It could have full Sugar interaction. From time to time I do explain how to access the Journal from Squeak, that could be used to save/load state. Same for network collaboration.
If you are interested we can work on extending the FreeCell activity together. Like adding Journal save/resume.
- Bert -