[etoys-dev] [SVN][749] Update project to use video clip

[karl ramberg]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
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>> On 31.05.2011, at 20:12, karl ramberg wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
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>>> On 31.05.2011, at 18:59, karl ramberg wrote:
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>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> On 30.05.2011, at 21:26, karl ramberg wrote:
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>>>> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg <
>>>> bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Also, the user interface of the movie player comes up in Swedish. It
>>>> does not switch to the current language.
>>>> >
>>>> > To make the translation of the movie player seems to be a little out
>>>> of scoop for this release.
>>>> > As far as I can see translation update for instances must be
>>>> implemented for quite a few tools.
>>>> > As usual, I'm not sure how to do it ;-)
>>>> >
>>>> > Karl
>>>>
>>>> Okay, the workaround for now would be to close the movie morph, switch
>>>> to English locale, open the movie to get the English GUI, save project. The
>>>> example projects are not translated to other languages yet, anyway.
>>>
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>>> I can only come up with ugly code to get the file  to open across saves
>>> and platforms.
>>> Like Smalltalk current imageFile... stuff
>>> I think we must let this get some more thinking and testing
>>> before releasing
>>>
>>> Karl
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>>>
>>> I guess so. I also heard of that problem in Uruguay. What they want is
>>> put the video or mp3 in the same directory as the project and have it work.
>>> Not quite sure if we actually remember the path a project was loaded from.
>>> It's even harder under Sugar of course, but making it work on regular
>>> machines shouldn't be that hard.
>>>
>>>  - Bert -
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>> Squeaklet directory would be quite easy to look in.
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>> Yes, but useless, because it's only for temp files. If we need to guess
>> then we should look at the default directory.
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>> We could just do something like the following I have been testing:
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>> openHardCodedFile
>> | fileName fd hardWay |
>> fd := FileDirectory default pathNameDelimiter.
>>  fileName := mpegFile fileName copyAfterLast: fd.
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>> This won't work. Windows used $\, Linux and Mac $/. I guess we need to try
>> both. Perhaps count the number of \ and / and use the one wit more
>> occurrences ;)
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>> self openFileNamed: mpegFile fileName. " test if old file name works"
>>  mpegFile
>> ifNil: [fd := FileDirectory default pathNameDelimiter.
>> hardWay := SmalltalkImage current imageName. "or Project
>> squeakletDirectory"
>>  hardWay := hardWay copyUpToLast: fd.
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>> You mean "Smalltalk imagePath" right? ;)
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>> hardWay := hardWay , fd asString , 'ExampleEtoys' , fd asString ,
>> fileName.
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>> See #fromExampleEtoys: for how the examples are loaded.
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>>  self openFileNamed: hardWay.
>> self openMPEGFile.
>> mpegFile
>>  ifNil: [^"ugh"]].
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>>
>> Karl
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>> We might also try the current Project's "lastDirectory" which is supposed
>> to be set to the directory it was loaded from. Not sure how well that works
>> in general. But for the particles dye project it looks promising:
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>> Project current instVarNamed: #lastDirectory
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>> ==> UnixFileDirectory on '/Applications/Etoys
>> 4.1.app/Contents/Resources/ExampleEtoys'
>>
>> - Bert -
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>> External videos will be a problem when publishing projects
> I'm not sure how to deal with that.
> We could internalize the the film like we do with sound.
> I'm not sure if there are issues with primitives if we do that
>
> Karl
>
Croquet had a buffered mpeg player we maybe could use.

But I get a primitive failed testing it.

I'll look for a plugin that works...


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