Attached now is an alternative and more limited fileout, which addresses only TRAC 8694 ("parameter displays 'nil' in slot tile") and TRAC 8695 ("possessive 's' goes missing").

I've split this out so that these two non-controversial fixes can quickly get moved along into the next releases. The other two bugs addressed in yesterday's fileout brought up issues relating to "un- camel-casing" policy, about which discussions are ongoing -- see, for example, https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8696

Feedback still very welcome on all these issues!

-- Scott

On Oct 5, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Scott Wallace wrote:

Thanks very much for this valuable and very clear bug report, Markus!

Attached is a fileout which purports to fix all the bugs and issues you mention; I've also posted this on the olpc bug-tracking system under TRAC ticket 8694, the first of the four tickets Bert filed to represent four distinct bugs identifiable from your report.

Feedback from anyone who knows what to do with a "fileout" such as the attached and who wishes to help test this potential update would be most welcome.

Cheers,

-- Scott

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On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Markus Schlager wrote:

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Hi all,

I encountered the following phenomenon, which IMO is quite irritating. It's about "player"-Tiles in scripts with a parameter (screenshots attached).

I made an empty script with a player-typed parameter an added a basic method and varaiable-assignment (EllipseTalkTo1.png):

Ellipse>>talkto: player Ellipse forward:5 Ellipse's heading :=0

Then I drag player-tiles off the parameter-area to replace the Ellipse-tiles (EllipseTalkTo2.png):

Now it looks like

Ellipse>>talkto: player Player forward:5 nil's heading :=0

It _should_ look like

Ellipse>>talkto: player player forward:5 player's heading :=0

Then I change the parameter-type to sth. different and back (EllipseTalkTo3.png, EllipseTalkTo4.png): "Player" and "nil" become "dot":

Ellipse>>talkto: player dot forward:5 dot heading :=0

The _should_ be:

Ellipse>>talkto: player dot forward:5 dot's heading :=0

I repeat step two an drag 'player'-tiles to replace the 'dot'- tiles. Now it looks like (EllipseTalkTo5.png)

Ellipse>>talkto: player Player forward:5 Player heading :=0

It _should_ look like

Ellipse>>talkto: player player forward:5 player's heading :=0

So there are three problems:

• Should "player" be capitalized everywhere or nowhere?
• Why does "player's" become "nil's" at the beginning?
• Why is "'s" missing from the moment at which "dot" appears?

And finally I have a request from the point of localization: All value-types of variables or parameters should get marked translatable. At the moment this is true for 'Color' and 'Sound' only.

Markus

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