Hi, Randy and everybody,
I made a kind of template project that can be used to make your own "gallery of projects" This one is made to create a gallery for a web directory.
http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/GalleryMaker.003.pr
The steps are described in the project as well, but here it is (after loading GalleryMaker into a fresh Etoys session):
- Let's say you have all projects on a server and accessible via HTTP. In this example, it is http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/. Change it to your server directory (with trailing slash kept).
- Download all projects from the server directory to a local directory. In this example, it is "C:\squeak\olpc\etoys".
- Load all projects from the local directory into this project. You load each of them manually and go back to the previous project. Or, set the local directory name in the below dialog (currently showing C:\squeak\olpc\etoys) and push "Load Projects" button.
- Next, press the "GalleryMaker" button. It'll substitute the little - names in the project thumbnails. Now you can save this project.
- Quit Etoys and load the project again. If you click on a thumbnail and it seems take longer than usual, it means that the project is loaded from the server and working as intended. Here, you can remove the garbage, rename the project and save it again. And, you are done!
If you have more questions, please let me know.
Currently, the version number matters. It would be nice if the clicking a thumbnail brings in the latest version of the project automatically, but I stumbled on some blocks and don't go there this time...
-- Yoshiki