Hi. I tried signing up for the Squeakland mailing list but I'm not sure that worked. I was fiddling around with Etoys yesterday and remembered getting an Xbox 360 controller working with the joystick morph in Windows. So I tried out my Steam controller from Valve. I couldn't connect it to the morph but Windows 10 views it as a usb keyboard/mouse and it worked fine with the Etoys To Go app even without Steam running. Both the toggle and the left touch pad send arrow key input that the key press morph can capture. I am not sure if the controller functions in Windows without Steam installed but I wasn't up for the kerfuffle uninstalling Steam would cause just to find out. Unfortunately Steam isn't the kind of application young children should have installed but I thought it was cool that there's another input device out there that works well with Etoys. I tried out Ubuntu too but I haven't used the controller in Ubuntu for a while and I guess an update overwrote a configuration file because the wireless dongle wouldn't work. Plugging the controller in with a micro usb cord worked without Steam running but strangely lsusb still didn't detect it and I couldn't connect it to the joystick morph. Mouse and keyboard input was fine however. There may be an open source standalone Linux driver available but again I don't know if that is necessary. Of course to customize controller output applications must be launched from Steam. That works for Etoys as well.
I am a hobbyist/enthusiast with an interest in educational software. Squeak has become my favourite environment for prototyping and experimenting and I much prefer Etoys to Scratch. Some of the issues I have with Etoys have been already been expressed by others so I am curious if any new versions are in the pipeline.
Thanks
Vicki
Hi Vicki,
nice to hear from you!
We are indeed working on a new Etoys version. It's a huge effort though, since we are basing it on the latest Squeak release, meaning that many years of independent development have to be reconciled. That's why we cannot promise any release date yet.
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Vicki S otadini@outlook.com wrote:
Hi. I tried signing up for the Squeakland mailing list but I'm not sure that worked. I was fiddling around with Etoys yesterday and remembered getting an Xbox 360 controller working with the joystick morph in Windows. So I tried out my Steam controller from Valve. I couldn't connect it to the morph but Windows 10 views it as a usb keyboard/mouse and it worked fine with the Etoys To Go app even without Steam running. Both the toggle and the left touch pad send arrow key input that the key press morph can capture. I am not sure if the controller functions in Windows without Steam installed but I wasn't up for the kerfuffle uninstalling Steam would cause just to find out. Unfortunately Steam isn't the kind of application young children should have installed but I thought it was cool that there's another input device out there that works well with Etoys. I tried out Ubuntu too but I haven't used the controller in Ubuntu for a while and I guess an update overwrote a configuration file because the wireless dongle wouldn't work. Plugging the controller in with a micro usb cord worked without Steam running but strangely lsusb still didn't detect it and I couldn't connect it to the joystick morph. Mouse and keyboard input was fine however. There may be an open source standalone Linux driver available but again I don't know if that is necessary. Of course to customize controller output applications must be launched from Steam. That works for Etoys as well.
I am a hobbyist/enthusiast with an interest in educational software. Squeak has become my favourite environment for prototyping and experimenting and I much prefer Etoys to Scratch. Some of the issues I have with Etoys have been already been expressed by others so I am curious if any new versions are in the pipeline.
Thanks
Vicki
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Thanks Bert. Looking forward to new release. I would be happy to beta test. I'm good at breaking things. :)
Vicki
On 16-12-06 08:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Hi Vicki,
nice to hear from you!
We are indeed working on a new Etoys version. It's a huge effort though, since we are basing it on the latest Squeak release, meaning that many years of independent development have to be reconciled. That's why we cannot promise any release date yet.
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Vicki S <otadini@outlook.commailto:otadini@outlook.com> wrote: Hi. I tried signing up for the Squeakland mailing list but I'm not sure that worked. I was fiddling around with Etoys yesterday and remembered getting an Xbox 360 controller working with the joystick morph in Windows. So I tried out my Steam controller from Valve. I couldn't connect it to the morph but Windows 10 views it as a usb keyboard/mouse and it worked fine with the Etoys To Go app even without Steam running. Both the toggle and the left touch pad send arrow key input that the key press morph can capture. I am not sure if the controller functions in Windows without Steam installed but I wasn't up for the kerfuffle uninstalling Steam would cause just to find out. Unfortunately Steam isn't the kind of application young children should have installed but I thought it was cool that there's another input device out there that works well with Etoys. I tried out Ubuntu too but I haven't used the controller in Ubuntu for a while and I guess an update overwrote a configuration file because the wireless dongle wouldn't work. Plugging the controller in with a micro usb cord worked without Steam running but strangely lsusb still didn't detect it and I couldn't connect it to the joystick morph. Mouse and keyboard input was fine however. There may be an open source standalone Linux driver available but again I don't know if that is necessary. Of course to customize controller output applications must be launched from Steam. That works for Etoys as well.
I am a hobbyist/enthusiast with an interest in educational software. Squeak has become my favourite environment for prototyping and experimenting and I much prefer Etoys to Scratch. Some of the issues I have with Etoys have been already been expressed by others so I am curious if any new versions are in the pipeline.
Thanks
Vicki
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A new version of Etoys!!!
Best Christmas present I could wish for. Please feel free to add me to the testing/documenting list.
Cheers, Stephen
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
Hi Vicki,
nice to hear from you!
We are indeed working on a new Etoys version. It's a huge effort though, since we are basing it on the latest Squeak release, meaning that many years of independent development have to be reconciled. That's why we cannot promise any release date yet.
- Bert -
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Vicki S otadini@outlook.com wrote:
Hi. I tried signing up for the Squeakland mailing list but I'm not sure that worked. I was fiddling around with Etoys yesterday and remembered getting an Xbox 360 controller working with the joystick morph in Windows. So I tried out my Steam controller from Valve. I couldn't connect it to the morph but Windows 10 views it as a usb keyboard/mouse and it worked fine with the Etoys To Go app even without Steam running. Both the toggle and the left touch pad send arrow key input that the key press morph can capture. I am not sure if the controller functions in Windows without Steam installed but I wasn't up for the kerfuffle uninstalling Steam would cause just to find out. Unfortunately Steam isn't the kind of application young children should have installed but I thought it was cool that there's another input device out there that works well with Etoys. I tried out Ubuntu too but I haven't used the controller in Ubuntu for a while and I guess an update overwrote a configuration file because the wireless dongle wouldn't work. Plugging the controller in with a micro usb cord worked without Steam running but strangely lsusb still didn't detect it and I couldn't connect it to the joystick morph. Mouse and keyboard input was fine however. There may be an open source standalone Linux driver available but again I don't know if that is necessary. Of course to customize controller output applications must be launched from Steam. That works for Etoys as well.
I am a hobbyist/enthusiast with an interest in educational software. Squeak has become my favourite environment for prototyping and experimenting and I much prefer Etoys to Scratch. Some of the issues I have with Etoys have been already been expressed by others so I am curious if any new versions are in the pipeline.
Thanks
Vicki
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On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Markus Schlager m.slg@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Bert,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
We are indeed working on a new Etoys version. It's a huge effort though,
Great news! Is there help needed with localization?
Markus
There will be need for that, certainly :) But not yet, and we have no replacement yet for the translation server we had at Sugarlabs.
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