etoys-dev December 2008

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[Etoys] TransformationMorph issue
by karl 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

When using TransformationMorph the extent of the tranformation is not given back braking the illusion of scale and rotation. I would assume the right thing would be to return owner extent to a scaled morph ? Karl

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Re: [Etoys] Translation on traditional chinese
by Yoshiki Ohshima 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello, Sorry for taking so long to get started, but here is the steps to try an experimental Traditional Chinese version I did today: - Start from etoys ver. 4.0 or, 3.1. Download the dev image from: http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/etoys-dev-4.0.zip. - Download the bitmap fonts made from the taipei fonts: http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/uTraditionalChineseFont.out and place the .out file at the same directory as the .image file. - File in the attached change set into the image. - Execute the following do it: LanguageEnvironment resetKnownEnvironments. StrikeFontSet installExternalFontFileName6: 'uTraditionalChineseFont.out' encoding: TraditionalChineseEnvironment leadingChar encodingName: #TraditionalChinese textStyleName: #DefaultMultiStyle. NaturalLanguageTranslator translators at: (LocaleID isoString: 'zh-tw') put: (InternalTranslator new localeID: (LocaleID isoString: 'zh-tw')). - You should see "Chinese (TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA)" in the language menu. Choose it. - Type some Chinese text into some text areas. The minimum size is 16 pixels high, so it doesn't match well with the smaller fonts in Squeak. However, It seems fine for 12 points Accuny or such. -- Yoshiki

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[Etoys] Etoys keyboard shortcuts
by Bert Freudenberg 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Some might find this useful: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys_Shortcuts - Bert -

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[Etoys] stepping forward
by Robert Hawley 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Is there a fix for making the toys move incrementally when given a sequence of forward and turn commands? It would be nice to be able to have the effect of seeing a floor turtle rolling along along the floor when using traditional Logo style commands - rather than seeing a single jump. Is there a way of achieving a linearized 'ticking' form of forward?

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Re: [Etoys] Finding the cursor on the screen
by Ken Ritchie 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Meant to CC the list, too ;-) Thanks! On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.luna(a)javeriana.edu.co> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > > Ken Ritchie escribió: > >> PS, The Synaptics touchpad software has a pointer option: >> >> [x] Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key >> >> When I let up on the control key, a concentric ring appears like a large >> halo around the cursor and grows smaller, converging on the pointer and >> disappearing -- all in about one second after lift-off on control key. >> >> [...] > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Ken Ritchie <classmaker(a)gmail.com<mailto: >> classmaker(a)gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> A easily discoverable gesture perhaps? ...rather than a secret >> incantation ;-) >> >> Such as resting on the touchpad for a moment (longer than a tap) >> without moving around much, then lifting off to provoke a ripple >> wave or some kind of visual highlight? (The two thresholds would >> be time on pad and distance moved.) >> >> That would reduce the occurrence of waves so that they don't >> happen with every touch. >> >> Cheers, >> >> > > The resting idea likes to me more. May be we would need an icon in the > touch pad to make explicit this gesture (in the same spirit of the arrows > for page top-down displacement). > > Cheers, > > Offray > > pdt: Have you realized that you send me the answer just to me? That was > intended? > > >

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Re: [Etoys] Finding the cursor on the screen
by Jerome Peace 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

[Etoys] Finding the cursor on the screen *** >Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de >Wed Nov 26 05:03:29 EST 2008 > > >On 26.11.2008, at 04:37, Jerome Peace wrote: > >> Finding the cursor on the screen >> >> >> As for finding the cursor on the screen, >> you could have the computer watch it for you. :) >> >> Take a pair of MovingEyeMorphs out of the parts bin >> (In etoys pull the object catalog out of the toy chest. >> the moving eyes are in the just-for-fun catagory.) >> and put them somewhere convenient on the screen. >> (Squeaks mouse logo used to serve this function.) > > >That's a cool idea! By embedding it in the tool flap it even follows >across projects. > >Now, we could add that to a new release. But I'm wondering how we >could support this mod without having to store a new image ... Hmm. I was thinking of this (and describing it) as something a user would do manually when needed. I hadn't though of providing it "ready to go". And of course that leaves the problem of how do kids and teachers stumble upon the solution. For which your idea is a good response. The other thought is to have a world menu item like 'help me find my cursor' that opens the eyes. That could be a changeset addition. Ah. Could you provide a pair of eyes as a saved morph? (e.g. Help me find my cursor.morph). Would that help users stumble upon it? I'm not familiar enough with the olpc enviorment to come up with a better suggestion. Yours in curiosity and service, --Jeorme Peace

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[Etoys] Botsinc free
by stephane ducasse 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi all I'm happy to announce that my book BotsInc http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc will be free soon (in fact it is since 23 september). I would like to thank ESUG http://www.esug.org for supporting financially the buying of the book rights and giving the book to the kid world. A catalan version will be available really soon thanks to jordi delgado! (Yes the french were not the first this time... We were the first for the etoy book and squeak by example. :)) If you want to participate to a translation please contact me. I will be setting up soon an infrastructure to support any language translation. Stef ------------------------ Stéphane Ducasse USTL - LILF - CNRS UMR 8022 - INRIA stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes Tel 33 3 59 57 78 66 - Fax 33 3 59 57 78 50 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR-59650, France.

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Re: [Etoys] Unable to select Pin morph when partially embedded within another morph
by Jerome Peace 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

[Etoys] Unable to select Pin morph when partially embedded within another morph *** >Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de >Wed Dec 3 06:22:52 EST 2008 > > > >On 03.12.2008, at 06:33, Sven Crouse wrote: > >> Hi. A current Etoys image prevents me from being able to move or >> activate halo of aPin ( of Connectors ) embedded in a aMorph when aPin >> is at least some portion outside the right side of bounding box of >> aMorph. To achieve >> >> 1-embed aPin in, for example, aRectangle >> 2-resize aRectangle so bounding box has some portion of aPin on >> outside >> ( right side ) > Actually you can halo it only when your cursor is over the part of the pin that overlaps its owner. Bert is right that it is a limitation and a bug. Just be aware that it is a general one affecting most sub morphs. Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace >Thanks. Can you report that on our bug tracker? > >http://dev.laptop.org/ > >> I would like to use current Etoys within Squeak, what vm and image are >> recommended ? > > >Etoys is inseparable from Squeak. Use the Etoys image, and the latest >VM. Do not use recent squeak.org releases, which are known to ship >with broken Etoys. > >You can access all Squeak tools from the Etoys image, they are just >hidden to not distract novice users. Press alt+shift+w to access the >full world menu. A simplified version of that menu pops up when you >press the view-source key on an XO (or alt+, on another machine). > >There is also a development image, see > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys#For_Developers > >User images are created from the developer image by setting some >preferences and preloading content but are otherwise the same. > >- Bert *** -

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[Etoys] Unable to select Pin morph when partially embedded within another morph
by Sven Crouse 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi. A current Etoys image prevents me from being able to move or activate halo of aPin ( of Connectors ) embedded in a aMorph when aPin is at least some portion outside the right side of bounding box of aMorph. To achieve 1-embed aPin in, for example, aRectangle 2-resize aRectangle so bounding box has some portion of aPin on outside ( right side ) I would like to use current Etoys within Squeak, what vm and image are recommended ? Sven

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[Etoys] C5-09 Kyoto - Registration now available!
by Kim Rose 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Greetings! Online registration is now available for "C5-09" -- The 7th International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing to be held January 19-22nd, in beautiful Kyoto, Japan. Online Registration can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/index.php?Registration General Conference and program information can be found here: http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Join us for 4 days of workshops, paper presentations and stimulating invited talks by Dr. Allison Druin, University of Maryland; Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research, and Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University. We wish to thank our sponsors Global COE Kyoto University, Viewpoints Research, Hewlett-Packard, ESUG and Matthew McCauley for their support. We hope to see you in Kyoto in January! -- Kim

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