On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Am 07.10.2008 um 19:07 schrieb Eben Eliason: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Am 07.10.2008 um 14:04 schrieb Marco Pesenti Gritti: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Interesting - how did you get it to display synchronously on two XOs? >>>>>> >>>>>> By making them play at fixed times (and syncing the clock, sort of). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is that code available? Or at least a full-screen flash player? When >>>>> showing >>>>> http://interdimensionmedia.com/scratch/MoMA/demo.html in Browse on the >>>>> XO, >>>>> unfortunately the demo cannot go to an unembellished full screen. >>>> >>>> Eben, do we have the latest image somewhere? >>> >>> Hmmm, I have a directory for it, but it only contains the .crc file. >>> Oddly missing is the .img itself, so it seems I don't actually have >>> it. After a little digging, I found the links to it; it appears >>> you're still hosting the files in your d.l.o space. I'm downloading >>> them again so I have an archive. Here are the links: >>> >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~marco/demo.crc >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~marco/demo.img >> >> Thanks, I'll have a look. >> >>>>> And, what would it take to translate the demo? >>>> >>>> I think Eben hacked the presentation up in Flash or Illustrator. So he >>>> would need to translate and regenerate the video. >>> >>> Translating would take some effort. The process was broken down into >>> 2 parts: static and dynamic. The static content (backgrounds, really) >>> were generated slide by slide in Illustrator. I have the source files >>> for each slide -- there are (literally and precisely) 100 of them, >>> across both screens. The static backgrounds were then imported into >>> Flash and used as a backdrop for the dynamic content, which included >>> all of the palettes, and other interactive text such as the typing >>> segment. >>> >>> Fortunately, I believe that these were imported as vector objects, >>> rather than as images, which means that it should be possible to edit >>> the text within them directly within the Flash document, rather than >>> having to individually edit and export each Illustrator file again. >>> After editing all of the static text fields, we'd then need to >>> translate the various method calls on each slide in the timeline which >>> define the palettes and other dynamic content. This should be >>> somewhat straightforward, since the system used to create palettes, >>> animate the cursor, transition between slides, etc. was all carefully >>> thought out to make creating the actual animation fairly simple. >>> >>> It's still a fair amount of work overall, but specifically because the >>> text can all be edited within Flash and then re-exported, it should be >>> possible. >> >> >> So if someone had Flash they could translate it. What's the license on these >> files? > > They're not officially licensed, but I'm sure they could be. I'd > check with Pentagram first since they did many of the static > Illustrator files, but I doubt there would be any problems. > Unfortunately, not many have Flash, but yes they could translate it. > They might need the latest version, since before that Macromedia owned > Flash independently, and support for direct import from Adobe > Illustrator wasn't there. (Though it might be OK since the import is > already done; we'd need to experiment.) > >> One other thing - Eben, could you re-export the files as Flash v. 3 and send >> them to me? I'd like to try something ... > > I can give it a shot. That's a really old version, right? I'm not > sure support for some of the libraries I used was there then, but I'll > see what happens.
The oldest version of Flash I can export for, given the present code, is Flash v.8 (The current version is 9, version 10 will be shipping with CS4 soon.) - Eben > - Eben > >> - Bert - >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
