hi!
sorry, but i got a new question!
first of all, i'd like to say that i'm preparing a five days workshop about "active essays" [in granada, spain] next week during a film festival called "cines del sur" [ http://www.cinesdelsur.com/ ]. the aim of the granada film festival "cines del sur" ("cinemas from the south") is to disseminate and promote films made in the countries of the so-called geopolitical south.
so, in the workshop, we are going to use OLPC-XO laptops and squeak etoys software in order to create an active essay about jose val del omar [spanish inventor and cinema visionarie, 1904-1982] [ http://www.valdelomar.com/ ]. once the workshop is finished, we are going to donate these laptops to children from a poor area in north africa or south america [not decided yet].
i'm preparing some projects for the workshop using etoys in a OLPC-XO machine. some etoys projects use sound and movies. i'm saving the projects and their multimedia files in a USB device. i woud like people to take USB devices at home and transfer the content to their computers to keep working there.
the problem i found is that the link between projects and files break when i transfer the content to [i.e.] a macbook [i always keep folders hierarchy]. i think etoys uses absolute paths to find files so my question is:
is there any chance to keep links between projects and multimedia files unaltered when changing the platform?
thank you for reaching this point of this long email. and sorry for my awful english. i do my best!
angel.
On 10.06.2009, at 01:55, Angel Arias wrote:
sorted!
thanks, anyway!
So how did you solve it?
The major use case for Etoys is having everything inside the project. Linking to external media files does not always work, e.g. under Sugar on the XO there aren't even folders one could grab and move around.
- Bert -
hi bert!
this is what i do...
i attach an USB device [memory stick, in this case] to the OLPC-XO. all my projects and media files live in the memory stick so i save all my work there. so there is a bunch of sounds and movies linked to projects using the absolute path [e.g.] "/media/"USB_device_name"/"file_name.wav". i have to say that [for simplicity's sake] projects and its media files live in the same folder.
then i move projects and files to my computer [a macbook, in this case] and save them in my default "Etoys" folder ["/Users/"my_account"/Documents/Etoys]. i know now that this is the first place where etoys.app look for lost media files.
so i open the project. open the media object's viewer and change its file name in the "movie control" panel. i change the absolute path ["/media/"USB_device_name"/"file_name.wav"] to a "relative" one ["file_name.wav"] and that's it.
i know it's not rocket science but it does the job.
cheers!
angel.
On 10.06.2009, at 11:54, Angel Arias wrote:
hi bert!
this is what i do...
i attach an USB device [memory stick, in this case] to the OLPC-XO. all my projects and media files live in the memory stick so i save all my work there. so there is a bunch of sounds and movies linked to projects using the absolute path [e.g.] "/ media/"USB_device_name"/"file_name.wav". i have to say that [for simplicity's sake] projects and its media files live in the same folder.
then i move projects and files to my computer [a macbook, in this case] and save them in my default "Etoys" folder ["/ Users/"my_account"/Documents/Etoys]. i know now that this is the first place where etoys.app look for lost media files.
so i open the project. open the media object's viewer and change its file name in the "movie control" panel. i change the absolute path ["/media/"USB_device_name"/"file_name.wav"] to a "relative" one ["file_name.wav"] and that's it.
i know it's not rocket science but it does the job.
Well for some Etoys users this would sound more complicated than simulating a rocket ;)
Anyway, thanks for sharing.
- Bert -
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