[squeakland] problems importing pictures into etoys project

[karl ramberg]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Luis Valente <is.valente at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kathleen,
> Many thanks for your help, but this is not the problem. The kid in question
> knows very well how to insert pictures in etoys projects by dragging or by
> inserting using the file dialog. The problem is that, at least in my
> thought, the computer's username is interfering with the insertion of images
> in some strange way due it has portugues characters, because caption's the
> message error is referring to UTF8 something... I think it is a problem to
> developers, so I'll get detailled information about this and come again.
> Thank you :-)
>
> Luis

If you can post the error log or a screenshot of the error we can investigate.
I just tested opening a file called i called mariajosé.jpg and had no issues.
It could be many reasons for the error message so we need some clues.

Karl
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> 2012/6/20 Harness, Kathleen <kharness at illinois.edu>
>>
>> Hi Luis,
>> I have attached an example showing a thumbnail from my Pictures being
>> dragged into Etoys and showing it there too.
>>
>> If your student is trying to drag and drop a word document, it won't work.
>> Moving words needs: CTRLc to copy and CTRLv to past highlighted text into a
>> text box in Etoys for word docs.
>>
>> Hope this is helpful.
>> regards,
>> Kathleen
>>
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>> [squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org] on behalf of Luis Valente
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>> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:19 AM
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>> Subject: [squeakland] problems importing pictures into etoys project
>>
>> Dear friends,
>> I'm in troubles with a project from one of my young students. The kid
>> needs to import a picture form documents folder, but all the attempts aren't
>> succeed. I think it is because is user name in windows has an "é" (e
>> accute). So every time he tries to place the image in a etoys project he get
>> a error message wich I cant reproduce from memory.
>> I suspect it is related to UTF8 coding. Few months ago, I found that
>> etoys-to-go wasn't functioning in a laptop width Windows 7! The user name
>> computer's was "mariajosé" so, I edited the etoys.ini to reflect the path
>> were .image was using changing th username "mariajosé" to "mariajosé" and
>> corrected the problem.
>> So, I'm asking how can I do to solve permanently the problem width
>> pictures my little student is facing?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Luis
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> Luís Valente
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