Hi folks,
I just released new packages, for both image and VM. If you configured yum, this should work:
yum update etoys squeak-vm
Otherwise, you can download from
We have switched to the 2.0 update stream now.
When running in Sugar, the image is notified when the activity is focused so it can turn off sounds while in background (see class SugarLauncher). You can test this without Sugar by creating a command pipe manually:
mkfifo /tmp/squeak cat > /tmp/squeak
In a second shell, run etoys:
etoys sugarPipe /tmp/squeak
Make a project that repeatedly plays some sound. Then, in the first shell, type
DEACTIVATE
to turn sound off and
ACTIVATE
to reactivate it. A welcome addition would be a way to test this outside Sugar. It should work on OS/X although I do not have tested it, yet. Might work on Windows, don't know if it has named pipes. Anyway, some testing would be nice.
A second new addition is Diego's V4LPlugin that allows to access the camera under Linux. I patched it to recognize the palette used on the Btest machine's camera. It's working - yay Diego! :)
- Bert -