[squeakland] problems importing pictures into etoys project

[karl ramberg]

That is indeed a very nasty bug.
I can confirm it happens on my aging Win XP machine.

Karl

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Luis Valente <is.valente at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Karl
> I'll appreciate your attention. So I tryied to simulate the error and it
> dont occurs on my system to. But, i remember another etoys user on Master
> in Education who had similar error. Do that:
> 1 - put Etoys-to-go in a folder named for example Etoys-tó-go (note the o
> accute);
> 2 - try to start Etoys (in my system - vista 32 - etoys.exe can't reach
> the .image, so I give the path and it starts correctly but don't write the
> path in the ini file
> 3 - while etoys is running imported a picture file whithout problems;
> 4 - when I attempt to save the project I got the error UTF8 shown in
> attached printscreen. Also include the log hoping this could help.
> (note that this problem is very frequent. I'm teaching etoys to school
> teachers which reported same error serveral times)
> Thanks again,
> Luis[image: Imagem intercalada 1]
>
> 2012/6/20 karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>
>> >> ________________________________
>> >> From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org
>> >> [squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org] on behalf of Luis Valente
>> >> [is.valente at gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:19 AM
>> >> To: Squeakland List
>> >> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > All the best,
>> > Luís Valente
>> > www.valente.org.pt
>> >
>> >
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>
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> Luís Valente
> www.valente.org.pt
>
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