Hi all,
First a little of background:
It seems that these days, most movement on education and Squeak is happening at this list :). Squeakland has been quiet for a while and Extremadura Small-land uses Yahoo Groups and not community owned infrastructure for communication (I have not a YahooID and I don't want to be forced to have one to belong to a community list).
I was using Small-land Extremadura's image of Squeak for my initial classes and courses because of the documentation available in Spanish for my students. But seeing the traffic on the lists, the potential impact of OLPC in education and the continuous development of this image over say Squeakland or Small-land, I'm planning to use OLPC etoys image for my courses and classes at least at the beginning (before using the excelent BotsInc image from Stephanne Ducasse).
I'm planning also to use this image in Schools with computer labs where children can develop content for the OLPC even if our government still has not commitment officially with the project.
So here come the questions:
* I have attached a small sketch of a book. It's a story from one of the most famous Colombian poets and author of a long list of children stories. It was originally sketched on Extremadura image, but now I want to change the layout of graphical elements for the etoys image (with lower resolutions ballon text overlaps images all the time).
- ¿It's possible to say where the help balloons are going to be located?, ¿can they be made semitransparent and control the level of transparency? - ¿Any pointer to documentation of how can I made a drawing follow some invisible path on another drawing?
* ¿There is any plan of unification/feedback for this work with the Squeak-land, Small-land images? Would be nice to have a active developed image that can be used on different kind of machines, from OLPC to Desktops with different size resolutions and content that can be adapted visually to them, without much redoing.
I will try to test the project on the prototype of the physical machine send to us this week and will see how adapts to the screen.
Cheers,
Offray
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org