etoys-dev November 2006

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[Etoys] Screen damage issues when dropping tiles in ScriptEditor
by karl 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

When I turn on preference showDebugDamage there are some issues when dropping tiles in the ScriptEditor. A rectangle in the top left corner flashes, and a large part of the screen is redrawn when the tile is dropped, from top left of screen to bottom right of ScriptEditor. I guess this will slow the tile scripting responsiveness. Also the Viewer flap tabs are redrawn quite often, not flap tabs for SketchMorphs, but for other morphs. Karl

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[Etoys] Next Steps for B-Test2 and more
by Yoshiki Ohshima 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hello, Now seems to be a good time (even though the B-Test1 schedule seems to be pushing back) to think about the next major items to be addressed for B-Test2 (and later) milestones. Here is rough summary: * Upto one VM instance per machine. Right now, you can create more than one VMs just by clicking the shooting star icon. It has some implication in the tactics of "background activity", which Bert asked but I think we didn't get definitive answer. * Address the tickets on the dev.laptop.org. Some short-term items are listed on the trac system. Takashi says he is looking at the gettext. (I'll list some items from Jerome Peace.) * Look and feel adjustment. OLPC's look is changing. We need to find a good timing to do it so that we don't end up with doing the same thing not too many times. This includes, perhaps, move some menu items to OLPC's chrome, change the way that halos work, etc. * Authoring tool for mentoring. Upon EventPlaybackSpace (or something), a tool that a designer and developers can use should be built. * Contents. Working with designers to make different tutorial contents built upon the above item. * Voice over machinary. Hooking a better sound codec than GSMCodec with Squeak. Ogg Vorbis comes to my mind, but we need to check again with OLPC folks. * Video. Diego says he updated the V4L2 binding. We will test it and make sure it works with the camera. * Script shaping. A reasonable way is to write a text renderer that uses Pango primitives. There can be more... Some might think that there are items we can do for B-Test1, but I think we are now safe to start concentrating on the B-Test2. Any suggestions and feedback is welcome. -- Yoshiki

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