[squeakland] Tools to Export Images from Etoys (eventually directly to a Blog Post)

[Steve Thomas]

How can I detect if a player variable is a book object? (sometimes it is
hard to click on the book and if you get another object and try to run the
script an exception is thrown).

I was also going to ask how I can handle exceptions in my script and where
to get a list of exceptions that could be thrown, but that is a much bigger
question ;)

Stephen

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM, <kharness at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Steve,
> This is a great tool! Thanks very much.
> The shared flap version works well and I have images of a six page book
> with one click . . . very useful.
> My computer is a Toshiba running Windows 7 Home Version. In one of my tries
> I got an abandon message which I attached.
> Regards,
> Kathleen
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:32:27 -0400
> >From: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> >Subject: [squeakland] Tools to Export Images from Etoys (eventually
> directly to a Blog Post)
> >To: squeakland Squeakland <squeakland at squeakland.org>
> >
> >   So, with some squeak help from Bert, I created a
> >   tool (in QuickGuide version and Flap version) you
> >   can use to export image(s) from your project.  Here
> >   is the Blog Post and the video.
> >   For a really cool way to view the blog (and I hope
> >   eventually to view Etoys Projects) check out this
> >   view.  Click on the Date, Label, and Author boxes
> >   at the top and I think you will get the idea.  So
> >   my idea is that when kids "post" their Etoys
> >   projects they can post a blog entry (we have a
> >   "Squeakland" Blog) and it not only posts the project
> >   (.pr file) to the squeakland Web Server, but also
> >   gives them a draft Blog post they can edit which has
> >   image(s) from the Blog and selected Text they can
> >   enter in Etoys. First step is to be able to post to
> >   Blogger from Etoys (then facebook, ....).
> >   So the CHALLENGES TO THE COMMUNITY - help me make
> >   this happen, here is what I think we need:
> >   1. squeak code to support using the Google Data API
> >       for Blogger and Picasa
> >   2. Help incorporating that squeak code into Etoys
> >       Projects so we can publish directly to Blogger
> >       and Picasa
> >   3. Brain storming on how to design this properly
> >   Some things I believe we should support:
> >   1. Ability to post to my Blog or my Blog and the
> >       Squeakland site
> >   2. We need a way to aggregate all the Blog posts
> >        1. one idea is to modify launcher to include
> >            some google analytics so we can find and
> >            incorporate people's public posts in one
> >            spot and select certain public posts to
> >            "feature".
> >        2. we may also want to put the embedded Etoy in
> >            an iframe (this would also make
> >            incorporating into OERGlue and similar
> >            tools to come (a good idea breads copiers).
> >   3. We need a way classes and Schools can have their
> >       own "private spaces" and also share select
> >       projects publicly.
> >   Note: The name on Books may not work, I found a bug,
> >   then fixed it, but the fix version is not yet
> >   showing up on the squeakland site. It will still
> >   save all the pages of the book, but it will use the
> >   name "Book" all the time (or whatever is the
> >   ExternalName for your Book object).
> >   Stephen
> >   On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg
> >   <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> >
> >     On 01.04.2011, at 08:52, Steve Thomas wrote:
> >
> >     > How can I (easily, a script would be fine ;)
> >     export an image of each page in a book in Etoys?
> >     (ideally with the image names being the
> >     projectName<Number of page>)
> >
> >     Put this in a textual script for the book:
> >
> >     self costume pages withIndexDo: [:page :i |
> >     PNGReadWriter putForm: page imageForm onFileNamed:
> >     Project current name , i asString , '.png']
> >
> >     Some requests are easy to satisfy ;)
> >     > I want to try using this to create flikr stream
> >     of lessons and to post in blog posts.
> >
> >     Even this could be automated. But it's not going
> >     to be a one-liner.
> >
> >     - Bert -
> >
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