squeakland May 2008

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Another experimental version of OLPC image for non-XO environments
by Yoshiki Ohshima 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hello, We've been doing this on and off, but we put together another set of files that could be an Etoys system downloaded from squeakland.org as the official new version. This time, it is closer. Please download: http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/Squeakland-OLPC-080512.zip and unpack it. And, on Windows XP or Vista, nagivate to "etoys.app" folder and double click etoys.exe to launch it. On Macintosh, double click "etoys.app". On Linux, execute etoys.sh. Thank you! -- Yoshiki

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Etoys scripting broken on Mac OS X Leopard: drag and drop into script holder script?
by Merik Voswinkel 13 May '08

13 May '08

Since a few months I can not create tile scripts in Etoys anymore. I can drag a tile from a viewer and drop it anywhere and a new script holder appears around my dropped tile. But when I drag a second tile (script phrase) from the viewer and hover over the script holder no insertion point appears. When I drop the tile on top of the script holder it does not get embedded but becomes a seperate tile on the background/desktop. No attempt to put it into the script holder works, When I use the halo I can see that the script holder does excepts drops.The second tile could also gets no new script holder around it, no mater where I drop it, I tried it on the Squeakland (browser plugin) (version 3.0), I downloaded the XO image and also tried it on a regular squeak 3.9 image but nowhere do I get it to work. I use Mac OS X Leopard on a fast G5 Quad so maybe therein lies the problem? It took me a few months to post this because I thought it had something to do with my Universel Access settings on Leopard that was interfering with drag and drop elsewhere in Mac OS X like the finder. But no, I have reinstalled a clean Leopard and the problem still exists. This effectively makes Etoys (and Kedama) unusable so I think it should be resolved. Where to look for a solution? Has anybody heard about this problem before? Merik

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How to remove a language item from menu Squeakland
by Valente Teixeira 08 May '08

08 May '08

I'm using the latest Squeak 3.9 and got a duplicate language item from menu (Configuration > set language). I loaded a .translation file for Portuguese and after that I made some corrections directly using the squeak language editor. Then I saved the file and loaded it again, later. Now, I have two new items in the "set language" menu, both Portuguese. I want to remove one of them but I don't know how to do. Some help will be great. Thanks, Luis

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Some thought about Operational thinking and Squeak
by Hilaire Fernandes 04 May '08

04 May '08

http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/05/01/Operational-thinking Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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Linking projects
by Paula Alexandra Gomes da Silva 03 May '08

03 May '08

Hi, Is there a way to link projects together? Or to make a link to a project from within another project. Kinda like hyperlinks in web pages? Thx a lot palexa -- Paula Alexandra Silva http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~palexa/ http://dme.uma.pt/pt/people/faculty/Paula.Alexandra.Silva.html

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Packaging Etoys for other platforms
by Yoshiki Ohshima 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hello, We've been delaying the action a bit, but we have been making the Etoys distribution for non-XO Linux, Mac, and Windows. Now our team got some traction and trying to package it up sometime soon. The package will be based on the latest OLPC Etoys image, but with some different settings and preferences, basically. (We'll soon make an early access versions.) The version that will be distributed from the Squeakland web site will be this version; so that the Etoys users on XO and Etoys users on other platforms can send compatible projects. We would like to include good translations in the package that makes sense to do so. Some languages require additional fonts, or different settings. For these languages, the community should consider to make a re-packaged version with some modifications. (The Japanese community, for example, has been doing this successfuly for several years.) At the same time, for languages like German, the community has been doing great to keep up with the translation effort. (Even with unfortunate glitches!) And it doesn't need too different settings from English one, it is a good candidate to include. For the non-XO environments, these are typically at schools and they often cannot easily update files once installed. So, we decided to make a package that is intended not to be updated often. ... So, if you like to get your language translations included in the package for non-XO environments, please try to update the translations in "a few weeks". (This is what VPRI does so may not be able to deliver on time as promised, but we are trying.) Thank you! -- Yoshiki (Later on, we might work on some incremental updater but not this time.) For the OLPC XO, we are planning to revise the image and translations and release new versions relatively frequently. There will be deadlines like Update.2, so we try to provide better versions for them. That includes new translations.

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