etoys-dev August 2009

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New Mac Installer Beta
by Bert Freudenberg 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Beta+versions The Finder should now display a thumbnail for new Etoys projects. I wrote a plugin ("quicklook generator") that is basically one page of C code to parse the project zip file and extract the new thumbnail.png, passing it to the Finder (attached). - Bert -

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Formatting translated text
by Bert Freudenberg 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

I just noticed these translatable strings in SketchMorph>>collapse : collapsedVersion setBalloonText: 'A collapsed version of ' translated, self externalName, '. Click to open it back up.' translated. This creates two separate translation entries, which do not necessarily appear next to each other in a translation tool. The canonical way would have been collapsedVersion setBalloonText: ('A collapsed version of {1}. Click to open it back up.' translated format: {self externalName}). We should stick to this kind of formatting. - Bert -

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Squeakfests were incredible (see for yourself)
by Timothy Falconer 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

As I write this, I'm flying home from Squeakfest USA. Sitting here, staring at my laptop, I'm completely unable to find appropriate words to describe the magic and friendship of the last few weeks. So many passionate talks, so many stirring examples, so many last minute details and surprises. I'm tired. That much is clear. Blame it on three conferences in four weeks and roughly fifteen thousand miles of travel in between. Were it not for my many Squeaker traveling companions, I'd have curled up to hibernate long ago. Truly the best part of the last month has been the company I've kept: Rita, Yoshiki, Marta, Kim, Scott, Alex, Bert, Ted, Bill, Randy, both Kathleens, Avigail, and Milan. Sharing the adventure with people of such talent and humor has truly been an embarrassment of riches. As for the presentations, workshops, and hallway talks, there's just too much to say. With dozens of sessions between the two Squeakfests, my mind's a blur with memories of enthusiasm and insight, along with strengthened motivation to support and expand our vibrant Etoys community. Rather than summarize my recollections, I'll instead point you to the video on the Squeakland website (http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/#cat865 ). Scroll down to Squeakfest Brasil and Squeakfest USA. We managed to capture nearly all of Squeakfest USA on our live webcast feed, though we lost the first half of the presentation from South Korea. Also, the final roundtable wasn't posted at the request of one of the participants. My apologies for the audio problems on the first morning. If you start at the beginning, know that the sound does get better. Also, if the video screen is at times too hard to read, the blame rests with the web stream, which reduced quality to improve bandwidth. We will be posting better video from both events in the future, particularly of the children's workshop, so stay tuned. I'd like to give a special thanks to Rita Freudenberg, our education director, who earned the "most traveled" award for her trips from Germany to both Brazil and Los Angeles. When you total her air distance, she flew more than 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles), which means she effectively circled the globe for Squeakland in the last month. Her insight, passion, and hard work in the last eight months were instrumental in both Squeakfests. As with her husband Bert, her continuing efforts on behalf of the Etoys community are unparalleled. Also a big thanks to Marta, Bruno, Kim, and Kathryn for tending to the many details of both conferences. Your hard work really showed. Most of all, I'd like to thank everyone at Viewpoints Research Institute for their time and talent in the last year. Your guidance has greatly helped Squeakland Foundation as we take and carry the Etoys torch into the future. Take care, Timothy Videos of both Squeakfests: http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/#cat865

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Re: [squeakland] [Q] How to export a script
by Karl Ramberg 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

On 2009-08-12 18:19, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > At Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:44:22 -0500, > Young-Jin Lee wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a way to export a script in one project so that it can be used in another project. I looked for >> contextual menus and googled it, but found no solution yet. Can anyone tell me if it is possible? >> > Like Karl wrote, a script is tied to its player (player's uniclass, > really). One thing you can do is, to turn the "debugHaloHandle" > preference on, get the halo of the object and from the gray debug > menu, choose "save morph in file" to create a .morph file. It saves > the morph's player altogether. Later you can load it from "find any > file" or dragging the .morph file from Explorer/Finder to the Squeak > window. > > For Supplies Bin, there is a machinary to save all the user defined > objects but there is no simple UI; If you know what to type as > Smalltalk expression for the Supplies bin, you can do it. > > >> Also, I have another question about using a movie file in etoy. In one of the demo projects that comes with etoy (a >> free-fall experiment), I found a set of JPEG images imported from a movie file. Does etoy can save selected frames from >> a movie as image files? If not, what is the best way to create image files from a movie file so that they can be used in >> etoy? >> > If the movie file in the format supported by the MPEGMoviePlayer or > GStreamerMoviePlayer, getting out frames programatically can be done. > Otherwise, I'd use an external tool... Could be a Windows Movie Maker > or iMovie but can be cumbersome. Does anybody have a better idea? We should in my opinion have a internal conversion of video to Holder. (and Holder to video) But such a feature would need work: Make it possible to select a short sequence of the video for conversion. Set frame rate and frame size and possibility to crop out a selection of the video. Another issue: Where are copy and paste menu items when in Etoy mode ?? Karl

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Hyper links problem
by antonio 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello, She speak about: - load a Text instance - write: http://www.google.es - select the hole text - alt-6 - select "be a web URL link" - clic on the link - then appear a message, something like: "open a web explorer to see this place?" - clic "yes" and Scamper open the URL; certainly too poorly, but did it. Now, without Scamper, appear "There are no applications registered WebBrowser" That's all. BTW, what is the main problem with Scamper, the licence or the ancient code?

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Hyper links problem
by Bert Freudenberg 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Tomeu alerted us to this problem from the OLPC Sur list: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2009-August/004090.html Automated translation: ======================================= Hi: I copy a text with hyperlinks interessanten etoys (Sugar 0.82) at bring the cursor to one of the links appear a hand, clicking question "Do you open a browser to see this URL?", he replied that it appears "There are no applications registered WebBrowser", accept, and then "No found a Web browser. Show the page source? See website as a source or cancel. In the previous version could see a web page in a window within Etoys, but now the window opens with information on video. Someone could see how to resolve it, because it was very useful to work with hyperlinks in Etoys. Thank you Silvana ======================================= Any idea what that is about? - Bert -

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popups in project-info
by antonio 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hello, I think the most important question is to make an effort to bring the method of storing information to international standards (http://www.imsglobal.org/), all other questions is less important. The education authorities are spending money with servers of educational resources, servers where teachers can find any kind of materials for their classrooms, made with different software tools, but where not eligible for a standard storage system involves not appear. Regards

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Re: [squeak-dev] Etoys-to-go goes AWOL?
by K. K. Subramaniam 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

On Monday 10 Aug 2009 8:54:59 am Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > At Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:11:05 +0530, > > K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I got a SVN error today while updating: > > "svn: Cannot replace a directory from within" > > > > What happened to Etoys-To-Go.app SVN at svn.squeakland.org/installers/? > > There is a Etoys-To-Go/ directory but it has only a few launcher files. > > Has it been merged into Etoys.app? > > Not sure in which directory you did "svn update" (perhaps?) Etoys-To-Go.app/. I used this to test custom image creation steps in SQ-154. See http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-154#action_35982 I will update it now. > , but yes > it is merged. There was no reason to have a almost duplicated > directories for Etoys.app and Etoys-To-Go.app. I didn't realize this and got tripped by the message. The etoys.sh script in Etoys.app is broken. The fixes in Etoys-To-Go/ has not made it into the merge. Is the merge still in progress? BTW, I am posting this to etoys-dev. The original post to squeak-dev was a mistake. Subbu

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[etoys-dev] squeakfest next week at ucla; bring a child, get in free
by Timothy Falconer 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi everyone, We're two days away from the start of Squeakfest USA (http://squeakfest.org ), which is being held at the UCLA Faculty Center from Monday, August 10th to Wednesday, August 12th. We're excited by the presentations we've got lined up, including a keynote by Alan Kay. Presenters will discuss how they're using Squeak Etoys and OLPC XOs in places like Nepal, South Korea, Uruguay, Haiti, Nicaragua, the United States, and more. We've still got room in our children's workshop, which runs from noon to two each of the three days. Kids aged 8 to 12 will use Etoys on provided XOs, learning to create animations and stories, just like in the Waveplace pilots. Best of all, if you bring a child, we'll waive your registration fee, which is otherwise $125 for the conference. Take care, Timothy

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Beginning of Release Notes for Squeakland Release
by Milan Zimmermann 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

I said on Monday I will try to create release notes, a high level version and a detail version , which I thought would have one line description to every change since Jan 5, 2009 (release day on Squeakland). I have to accept to be clearly running out of time, so perhaps I will just summarize on the high level, what has changed. Please add or modify as applicable: - Improved readability and presenation on small screens, targetting netbooks. - Improved and faster scaling when opening projects created on screens sized differently from your system. - On the right of the top toolbar, added a button which allows to show or hide the toolbar, providing more space for the project. - Over thirty Improvements based on educators' reports, for example, the selection tool, the book, and many other improvements. - Added GStreamer (TODO: explain what does it mean for educators) Sorry for not getting further. Milan

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