[etoys-dev] Camera in e-toys/scratch

[Derek O'Connell]

Hi Karl,

On 13/10/11 21:24, karl ramberg wrote:
>  I'm considering renaming the WebcamMorph in Etoys as its much
>  different now from the original code. Partly because the original
>  code had so many setters and getters. Many where for settings that
>  where planned features not yet working. Others seemed to be
>  overreaching the needs Etoys has.

The morph was fully working but what is probably missing is the set of 
fxMorph's that were designed to work with it (in simple d&d fashion via 
PasteUp morph as a holder). I'm sure I published these as well but will 
check in the next few days.

In the past few years Etoys has become defined by the requirements of a 
group of educationalists, which is great for the amount of attention 
that has resulted. Hopefully however no one is claiming that Etoys is 
restricted solely for educational use and I'm sure there are plenty of 
people who simply like to quickly experiment with ideas (me included). 
The WebCam morph was created with this latter group in mind but I'm 
happy if it can be chopped down for other uses.

-D

>
>  Karl
>
>  On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:40 AM, karl ramberg
>  <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I been working with the WebCamMorph code and got it working now I
> > think. At least it does not crash my image :-)
> >
> > I think I'm going to simplify the code quite a bit because we do
> > not need all the settings that WebCamMorph have.
> >
> > Karl
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:53 PM, karl ramberg
> > <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Gonzalo Odiard
> >> <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>> Great! Anybody knows who package e-toys in Fedora?
> >>>
> >>> Gonzalo
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:10 AM, karl ramberg
> >>> <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Added to Etoys now. Camera is not working on Windows 7
> >>>>
> >>>> Karl
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
> >>>> <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, karl ramberg
> >>>>> <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Derek O'Connell
> >>>>>> <doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hi Gonzalo, Bert,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I took a quick look at Scratch on XO-1.5 (Build: 5
> >>>>>>> customised, Sugar: 0.93.4, Fw: Q3B19) and saw the
> >>>>>>> effect mentioned in ticket/11297. At first guess this
> >>>>>>> looks like a conversion problem in libv4l2 (new
> >>>>>>> version?), confirmed by copying my desktop versions of
> >>>>>>> libv4l2.so.0 and libv4lconvert.so.0 to the XO and then
> >>>>>>> the camera image was perfect (although frame-rate was a
> >>>>>>> little on the slow side). So this problem possibly
> >>>>>>> needs bouncing elsewhere.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Re supporting etoys/other-platforms, the c-code [1],
> >>>>>>> image code [2] and example morph [3] was released ~20
> >>>>>>> months ago so I have no idea why it was not adopted. I
> >>>>>>> do know it worked in etoys earlier this year since I
> >>>>>>> loaded it all up to do a 3D side-by-side demo using two
> >>>>>>> webcams.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think we can add it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Karl
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Karl, What should be the steps to move it forward?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Gonzalo
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> There are some subtle bugs in the WebCamMorph code that give hard
> >> crash. I'm trying to pin it down but have not found the right
> >> place yet. Good new is that the camera works in Windows though
> >> only in a basic way.
> >>
> >> I'll try to weed out the bugs during the week
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >