Hi Gary, thanks for this nice activity - pointed my attention to the lunar eclipse tonight. Hence, I had to feature it in my little install tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse#Install_an_activity
Looking forward for your next contributions. Simon Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Devels, > > Well... Just in time for the Lunar eclipse in a couple of days! I > wanted post my first Sugar activity port here, it is a conversion/ > update from an OS X Cocoa app I wrote some years back. It is a v1 so > be kind, but happy to hear any feedback about making this a more > productive/educational activity for sharing, or if you spot any faux > pas in terms of a Sugar/XO activity. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Moon > > This was a learning exercise for me, Python I know, but GTK (and the > provided Sugar environment) well that was all new. Embarrassed to say > it actually took me a day to get a black background to the Moon widget > area (!!) but I picked up a little speed after that, honest :-) > > Happy Moon/eclipse watching. > > Regards, > Gary C. Martin > > P.S. "Earth" is my next planned port (from EarthGlobe), though there > are a few extra hurdles to resolve for that one (i.e. quick 3d sphere > rotation interaction given no OpenGL support). Might have to drop to > wireframe during manipulation, or get dirty with a C Python extension. > Shout if I missed something obvious here. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel