Many thanks for your help, but this is not the problem. The kid in question knows very well how to insert pictures in etoys projects by dragging or by inserting using the file dialog. The problem is that, at least in my thought, the computer's username is interfering with the insertion of images in some strange way due it has portugues characters, because caption's the message error is referring to UTF8 something... I think it is a problem to developers, so I'll get detailled information about this and come again.

2012/6/20 Harness, Kathleen <kharness@illinois.edu>

Hi Luis,
I have attached an example showing a thumbnail from my Pictures being dragged into Etoys and showing it there too.

If your student is trying to drag and drop a word document, it won't work. Moving words needs: CTRLc to copy and CTRLv to past highlighted text into a text box in Etoys for word docs.

Hope this is helpful.
regards,
Kathleen

From: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org [squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org] on behalf of Luis Valente [is.valente@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:19 AM
To: Squeakland List
Subject: [squeakland] problems importing pictures into etoys project

Dear friends,
I'm in troubles with a project from one of my young students. The kid needs to import a picture form documents folder, but all the attempts aren't succeed. I think it is because is user name in windows has an "é" (e accute). So every time he tries to place the image in a etoys project he get a error message wich I cant reproduce from memory.

I suspect it is related to UTF8 coding. Few months ago, I found that etoys-to-go wasn't functioning in a laptop width Windows 7! The user name computer's was "mariajosé" so, I edited the etoys.ini to reflect the path were .image was using changing th username "mariajosé" to "mariajosĂŠ" and corrected the problem.

So, I'm asking how can I do to solve permanently the problem width pictures my little student is facing?

Thanks

Luis

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All the best,
Luís Valente