On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 17:53, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked on a new version over the weekend. This one seems to do the trick :) > > I decided to make a full XO bundle for testing this time: > > http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/Scratch-20100308.xo > > That's because there are a few new files, like project/sprite SVG icons, > mimetypes.xml, the scratch-wrapper script was scrapped etc. > > Most significantly, resuming from the Journal (or Home screen in newer Sugar) > works now. It may not always resume a project you saved in my last version, > but loading those and resaving should fix the metadata. > > "Save" always overwrites the previous Journal entry, "Save as" always creates > a new one. > > Metadata is preserved, that is, if you added a tag in the Journal it should > still be there after re-saving. Same for the description - this is kept > separate from the project's comment you see inside Scratch because I could > not figure out which one should win if they differ. > > The metadata contains the full project summary, so if you search e.g. for a > sprite name in the Journal, projects containing it are found. If John fixes > the PNG generator we can also have thumbnails in the Journal. Otherwise I > consider this to be pretty much complete :) > > Please report back with any problems you find. Everything Journal-related > should work now.
Congratulations to all involved, lots of children (and not only) were waiting for this! Thanks, Tomeu > - Bert - > > On 02.03.2010, at 06:54, Claudia Urrea wrote: >> >> Bert, >> >> I downloaded this new version... >> >> 1. open a project: it works! Even the ones I had downloaded before >> worked, so it was not a problem with the download. >> 2. save a project works also! >> 3. Importing a project.. doesn't work! >> 4. Importing a costume, both using simple directory and sugar widget works! >> >> I will a complete test tomorrow. >> >> Claudia >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I have another version for testing. Code: >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/SugarScratch-bf-2010Mar01.zip >>> >>> Pre-made ScratchXO.image: >>> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/ScratchXO-bf-2010Mar01.zip >>> >>> This now supports writing/exporting to the Journal, so is almost >>> feature-complete. >>> >>> I added a USB button as suggested. It opens "/media" directly, which >>> appears to work fine. However, the USB stick must be inserted before >>> launching Scratch. This might be a limitation of Rainbow. >>> >>> USB support is very different between Sugar versions. In 0.82 each USB >>> drive appeared as different "mountpoint" in the datastore, they could be >>> enumerated and the Journal queries could be filtered by mountpoint. >>> Unfortunately, no filtering is done by default, so if you mount a USB drive >>> on an XO-1, the USB files will show up even when you click Scratch's >>> Journal button. >>> >>> Newer Sugar versions apparently don't allow to access different mountpoints >>> anymore. The "mountpoint" property of each Journal entry seems to be >>> present randomly. OTOH, files on USB do not clutter the regular file list. >>> >>> I might have to special-case Sugar 0.82 and filter the list for the main >>> datastore mountpoint only ... >>> >>> TODO: Saving (even under the same name) always creates a new Journal entry. >>> I need to figure out how to preserve the identity of entries. Also, >>> metadata is not preserved yet. >>> >>> I did implement preview thumbnails when saving projects, however I disabled >>> it because the PNG writer in Scratch creates corrupt images. I tried to >>> compare it to the one in Etoys which was fixed long ago but couldn't easily >>> figure out the problem. >>> >>> - Bert - >>> >>> On 25.02.2010, at 19:09, John Maloney wrote: >>>> Hi, Bert and Claudia. >>>> >>>> I've done some more testing; results below. >>>> >>>> Claudia, it's great that you are able to send error logs to Bert to help >>>> him debug. I'm pretty busy with about three other projects, so I may not >>>> have time to do much more testing. >>>> >>>> Bert, I looked over your code. It's about what I expected -- lots of DBus >>>> code, some compatibility methods, and the changes to the dialog boxes. >>>> There were one or two methods that I might want to look at more closely >>>> and perhaps ask you about. I'll let you know if I have questions. >>>> >>>> Seems like there are a few issues we might consider: >>>> >>>> a. Should we add a link to get to the USB drive? >>>> b. If we had an easy way to get to the USB drive, do we actually need a >>>> way to access the Journal "object view"? >>>> c. How important is it to be able to save/export files to the Journal? >>>> Seems like being able to import and open projects from the journal is the >>>> highest priority, so if Bert is running out of hours to work on this, >>>> perhaps save/export is something we could omit. But that's up to Claudia >>>> to decide. Note that if we had an easy way to get to the USB drive that >>>> might be a way to move data between Scratch and the Journal when necessary. >>>> >>>> It's really coming along! >>>> >>>> -- John >>>> >>>> Issue summary: >>>> * downloaded projects files is always "download" >>>> * importing sounds does not appear to work >>>> * should we replace one link button (e.g. "data") with a "USB" link? >>>> >>>> My configuration is: >>>> XO 1.0 hardware; Sugar 0.82.1, build 802 >>>> >>>> Project Downloading Tests >>>> >>>> This works for me. I use Browse to go the Scratch website, log in, then >>>> click download link on a project to download it. >>>> Note: if you forget to log in you get a dialog box title "rainbow-daemon" >>>> that says "Please login". >>>> >>>> When you download a Scratch project, the download URL is something like: >>>> http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/johnm/902126/download >>>> Thus, all Scratch projects appear in journal a "download", and when you >>>> open the project in Scratch, it's title is "download". (Sorry, I was >>>> mistaken earlier when I said I saw the project name in the journal.) Bert, >>>> it's a bit more work, but you could extract the project's name from the >>>> project history (the last "share" entry). >>>> >>>> Import Tests >>>> >>>> Importing a costume or backgrounds from the Journal works. >>>> >>>> It appears that importing a sound does not work, but I'm not positive I >>>> did the right test. I made a sound recording with the "Record" activity. >>>> But when I do "import sound" and click on the "journal" link, I do not see >>>> any sound entries. >>>> >>>> I believe importing a list would work. At least, when I try to import a >>>> list and click on the "journal" link I see a bunch of files, which I >>>> assume are all the plain text files in the journal. >>>> >>>> Import/Open Dialog Link Buttons >>>> >>>> The link buttons on the Import Costume dialog box are: >>>> >>>> Computer -- shows contents of / (the root of the file system) >>>> data -- this is the isolated data folder for the Scratch activity (on >>>> other computers this shows the user's home folder) >>>> Desktop -- shows same folder as "data" >>>> Costumes -- Scratch's costume folder >>>> Journal -- the journal >>>> >>>> Since "data" and "Desktop" are redundant, I think one of those could be >>>> used to show the first mounted USB drive (or /media if there is not USB >>>> drive). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
