OLPC eToys!

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Fri Sep 22 01:50:05 UTC 2006


  Hello,

> > What would be really interesting is if someone could come up with a
> > way to author projects at their native OLPC resolution (1200x900)
> > while viewing them at half that size, that is, scaled by 0.5 in a
> > 600x450 window. This is because the actual resolution of the display
> > is 200 dpi, whereas a normal monitor has 100 dpi.
> That should work using a slightly modified WorldWindow - in theory.
> Sadly, WorldWindow as it is is broken, and I don't understand enough of
> it to fix it. If you could get it to work, you could insert a
> TransformMorph with a scale of 0.5 and smoothing between the window and
> its contained PasteUpMorph.
> It's all a bit tricky, but once you get it running, it should be pretty
> usable. I've got it running to the point where I can render a world at
> half scale and open menus on it, but opening windows does not work yet.

  Ha.  So, one idea would be to use Nebraska.  It has the scaling
feature already, and it even can somewhat simulate the slowness of the
hardware^^;

-- Yoshiki



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