etoys-dev January 2009

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17 discussions

[Etoys] Mimetype support in JournalMorph
by karl ramberg 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

I'm slowly progressing on JournalMorph for the XO. I'm wondering now what mimetypes/fileformats it would be most useful to support. png, jpg, gif, bmp for pictures. ogg, aif, wav, spx for sound. What about mp3 ? Etoy projects could be shown. What are the text formats we support ? I will support just png for picture saving, best overall, preserves tranparency. Video support is lacking at the moment. Only format working is the Squeak jmv format I think? What about gstreamer ? My idea for the JournalMorph is to view/access the XO Journal as a Holder in Etoys so items can be added, shown and played. Contents can be filtered so it can show only sounds for example. Karl

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[Etoys] ANN: Squeakland Foundation Inc.
by Rita Freudenberg 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello everyone, We're excited to announce the formation of Squeakland Foundation Inc, a non-profit organization that will take over from Viewpoints Research as the guardians of Squeak Etoys. Our new board of directors held its first meeting last Thursday, where we approved the name, elected officers, and made plans for this year's Squeakfest events. The new board includes: Tim Falconer Kim Rose Walter Bender Rita Freudenberg Kathleen Harness Marta Voelcker Scott Wallace Yoshiki Ohshima Milan Zimmerman These nine people are just the start, of course. Please help us in our mission to "build community and encourage deep learning worldwide by promoting, supporting, and improving Squeak Etoys and related educational media." To read more about Squeakland Foundation, read today's newsletter: http://squeakland.org/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=9 You can subscribe to our quarterly newsletter here: http://squeakland.org/subscribe/

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[Etoys] Saving to Journal
by karl ramberg 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

I figured out the issue with preview, the file I was testing had a wrong format preview. Anyway, I'm stuck at creating entries in the Journal. Do anybody know how to do this. I found some methods in SugarDataStore but can not get them to work, they time out on DBus. I want to be able to save pictures and maybe other stuff. It would be neat to be able to for example make a etoys drawing program and save the drawings... Karl

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[Etoys] Viewing a preview
by Karl Ramberg 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi, I'm testing out stuff in my JournalMorph but run into stuff I can't figure out. I'm trying to view a png preview stored in a ByteArray but I don't get it to work. I make the ByteArray a RWBinaryOrTextStream but the PNGReadWriter formFromStream: aStream do not recognize the format. I'm not sure how to proceed. I also tried to write out a png to the Journal but that would not work either :-( Karl

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Re: [Etoys] ScriptInstantiation #tickingRate
by Ricardo Moran 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

> > >> Hold down on the clock icon in a scriptor - it will give a menu to adjust >> the tick rate. > > >> The default tick rate is rather low so it does not slow down too much if >> you have many animating objects. > > >> - Bert - > > Oh, thanks. I didn't knew that... sorry for the noise.

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Re: [Etoys] ScriptInstantiation #tickingRate
by Ricardo Moran 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

I attached a very simple change set that adds an option in the script editor's menu to change the ticks per second. I find it useful and I don't know why it was not there in the first place.

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[Etoys] ScriptInstantiation #tickingRate
by Ricardo Moran 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi, playing around I discover the tickingRate on ScriptInstantiation and I wonder why is it set to nil. I set it to 50 and the script started to tick so smoothly! Is there a way to change this value without doing nasty things (like opening a bunch of inspectors...). And if we change its default value to 50 or something like that? Could that be a problem?

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[Etoys] [RELEASE] etoys 4.0.2205 / Etoys-99
by Bert Freudenberg 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-99.tar.gz http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2205-… == Bundles == http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2205-2.noarch.rpm http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-99.xo == News == * offer full authoring-tools menu to all users * make Anthy based Japanese input work * add About flap on start screen * enable screen scaling a bit more eagerly * include icons for mimetypes - Bert (for the group) -

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[Etoys] Too clever
by Bert Freudenberg 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Turns out the flap in the new release (4.0.2205) does not update its version string, it still shows 2201. Digging around for the cause I found the World's script1 which has a line to update said version string in the Squeakland release but not in mine. I didn't ever notice that script before ... (and I might wish I had never laid my eyes on it, it's seriously too clever). Just copying the flap from the Squeakland project to the OLPC project was not clever enough OTOH, so I'll have to do another release. Is there anything else someone noticed in this version we should fix before re-releasing? - Bert -

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[Etoys] What now ?
by Karl Ramberg 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi, hearing the news that much of the Sugar dev team is fired I now wonder if there is any point in working on Sugar integration anymore. I have started on a JournalMorph where one could obtain pictures and sounds etc. from the Journal to link in or import into a project, but now I have slight doubts about if there is any use for such a thing ? Do you guys have any thoughts on the future ? Karl

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