Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: learning how the code works _could_ be done on generated C code (although not well). my Dad tought himself C by taking the KR book, typing in the examples and examining the resulting binaries, but he came from a mainframe systems background. most people won't go to that extreme. Interesting Dad. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: on Sugar
Nicholas Negroponte wrote: We are not a business, but need to be more business-like: meet schedules, manage expectations and fulfill promises. To do that, we need to hire more developers, work more together and spend less time arguing. I am becoming available mid May and certainly would enjoy working with a more directed and focused OLPC team. I was the software architect and implementor of the Jhai PC. You may see my credentials at www.CircleSoft.com Best Regards, Gerard J. Cerchio ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OLPC seeks a CEO -- who was your favorite CEO elsewhere?
John Gilmore wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008035_429837.htm OLPC is looking for a CEO. Hey folks, John is looking for an organizer not another M$ free-for all! Tongue in cheek, I hear Vladmir Putin just lost his job, talk about someone that can make order out of chaos I wish the organization the best of luck finding the best person for this job! I have never worked under a CEO that I thought was worth half the salt hes taking from the company. Gerard Cerchio ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Suggestions for a development environment?
I prefer IDE's too, and have been using Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org I am pretty sure Ubuntu has it packaged. Have you tried running your development environment in a virtual machine? Here are a few notes on OLPC development: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Gcerchio.diary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Observing games
I previously asked for volunteers to work on Connect. Despite some interest, it hasn't progressed further, so I'll reiterate: Patches welcome! Regards Morgan Once I have more time, in say a month or two, I'll continue development on PlayGo again which is a direct descendant of Connect. I'll keep in mind that you would like enhancements to propagate up the tree. - Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Observing games
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 8:46 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I previously asked for volunteers to work on Connect. Despite some interest, it hasn't progressed further, so I'll reiterate: Patches welcome! Regards Morgan Once I have more time, in say a month or two, I'll continue development on PlayGo again which is a direct descendant of Connect. I'll keep in mind that you would like enhancements to propagate up the tree. - Gerard Thanks, Gerard. We have a good page on the Wiki for Activities, with links to individual projects. What would be a good way to share information on these more general development projects? Is there a page for it? Should we turn the observing functions into a shared library and have a Libraries page? We have the same issue with text-to-speech in the Speak activity. It started as a standalone activity, but makes sense to provide as an option for all activity development. Not in Draw or TamTam, perhaps, but certainly in Browse, Write, Calc, and others. I am all for a collection of widgets that you cut and paste from a wiki page. This way there can be a lot of documentation around the code that does not bloat the git. Some functionality like a chat window would probably be moved un-modified into a framework built game application. However most of the game specific communication bits I feel must just be presented as a scaffold that the developer would drop into her code and modify to suit communication requirements of the individual project. As long as they don't break the framework, the standard widgets should be fine. I started a general documentation of Activity basics, with the intention of finding an existing page to home it or coming up with a clever new page name. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PlayGo#PlayGo_Software Alas, I still must work for a living ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Updated API documentation for everything.
C. Scott Ananian wrote: The subject line of my previous message should have been 'updated API documentation', not 'updates API documentation', sigh. --scott Scott, Is this going to be a more or less permanent location? I am setting my link on my PlayGo activity page to the http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/sugar.activity-module.html. Do you plan to move this into the wiki? -Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
3rd Fedora disk curdle
In the short time I have been working with olpc I have had my Fedora VMware machines curdle their ext3 disks 3 times. I have been running 2.4 and 2.6 Redhats and Debians for over a year with no such problems. Once the first Fedora 7 machine broke its disk I have been very careful to shutdown every time. I cannot point to any particular activity that has corrupted the disk image. Things will start to go wrong and a subsequent reboot with fschk will yield a disk hopelessly in trouble. Does the jhbuild emulator do any exotic direct to disk IO that may be causing this? Does Fedora aggressively modify its ext3, vfs or SCSI drivers? I have built a third Fedora 8 VM this time using IDE disk IO in hopes that this problem will go away. Has anyone else seen this kind of problem? -Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Community Support website for users
dig support.laptop.org ; DiG 9.5.0b1 support.laptop.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 28879 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;support.laptop.org.IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: laptop.org. 10800 IN SOA bayer.media.mit.edu. net-request.media.mit.edu. 2007120702 900 600 36 86400 ;; Query time: 114 msec ;; SERVER: 66.80.130.23#53(66.80.130.23) ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 27 08:36:52 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103 Did the media lab get the memo? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: several DNS - incl. openDNS - do not resolve the URL, yet. yokoy On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:46:58 -0500 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's funny. support.laptop.org resolves for me just fine.(it's pointing to wiki.laptop.org/go/Support ) SJ On Dec 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Burns wrote: feel free to use the forum forum, web chat or the email list as a resource: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Other support information can be found at http://support.laptop.org/ support.laptop.org does not have a server listening as of Dec-27 07:37 PST ___ 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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Community Support website for users
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Dec 27, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: Did the media lab get the memo? ;; ANSWER SECTION: support.laptop.org.85028INCNAMEpedal.laptop.org. pedal.laptop.org.75072INA18.85.2.148 New DNS records can take some time to propagate. I agree, and I finally have the CNAME out here on the Left Coast :) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: 3rd Fedora disk curdle
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, VMware can't deal very well with host-side platform problems. :) How sure are you that VMware Server 1.04 works on Windows XP 64 SP2? I'm running VMware Workstation *6* on my AMD64 box -- I haven't messed with the free server in a while and I've never tried it on a 64-bit machine. Weelll, the site states that it works for 64bit clients and hosts and the install did not balk when I lit it up the XP64 machine so I assume I am ok. If I do not get problems with the VM on the direct connect IDE. I may take the time to build a SCSI based VM planted on the IDE drive and see if that invokes the problem. Ever see a compiler go crazy on the old HP mini's running HPDOS? You know, the OS that had the compilers own a raw piece of disk for the object code, so they did physical IO to the platter for compiles? That must have been about a ga-zillion years ago :) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Silly Question
Yuan Chao wrote: On Dec 24, 2007 2:21 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was plugged into a USB slot on thr ight not the left. Interestingly enough, on the current software, if you do that the journal will still see the usb stick but not be able to open it. That's interesting... I used to use the USB slots on the right hand slide of my XO. They should be identical. Better make use that you don't have a broken hardware. :) The lower right hand USB port has problems on one of my G1G1's ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Update of activities over the web
I have noticed that PlayGo is listed as an activity on the Austria download site. I think this great, but I have one problem: Updating the activity. The browser called open routine that is connected to the open button does not update the activity to the latest version that is downloaded. In fact, before the the update happens I must remove the activity from the start bar, delete the activity directory and reboot in order to get the new version of the activity to install. Is the open button going to be more robust? Should the activity check the git repository for updates and update itself? Is there a library for this? -Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Laptop debug
Hi All, Do the XO's ship with the serial/USB debug adapter? If not, how do I get one? -Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Laptop debug
Rafael, I saw that page, you mean if I want one I build it from the PDF's?? Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 12:16 PM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Do the XO's ship with the serial/USB debug adapter? no If not, how do I get one? you can see this for reference. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters HTH ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Hippo Canvas
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: Sorry to say that I am having a terrifically hard time trying to use the hippo canvas. hippocanvas is sort of deprecated. Initially, hippocanvas was to be the basic building block for all Activities, but it proved too immature to be used everywhere. Instead activity developers are encouraged to use the standard GTK components. However, hippocanvas does provide some features that are difficult or impossible with standard GTK, as used by Chat and a few other Sugar elements. Therefore, it is included in the build. You should only use hippocanvas if you know that what you are doing would be more difficult without it. For your case, I recommend plain Cairo instead. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaqxEUJT6e6HFtqQRAjSTAJ9MM+pum4Vrc3JlAPltiElTl5UzuwCfYAw9 flH6iLtdu4N+xw4ow6jsyL4= =tylP -END PGP SIGNATURE- So now marked in the Wiki... ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Activity Icon design question
Hi all, I am thinking about using 9 different icons for the PlayGo Activity. The icon will reflect the number of handicap stones that the black player starts with. The icon will have from 1 to 9 black dots on the board star points. This could be used to offer people games in the neighborhood so that the joining person knows the limit if the handicap stones the initiator will offer. Two questions: 1. Is it possible for sugar to set and propagate a change in the activity icon? 2. Is the concept of a morphing activity icon withing the HIG? - Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Active activities as Widgets
Ties Stuij wrote: I must admit I didn't check your code but i found playing on a 19x19 board in Hikaru no go on a GBA quite doable. And that has a 240x160 screen!! I strongly suggest offering a 19x19 option, even if it is a bit less clear. The game gets a lot more interesting with the size-upgrade. /Ties Thanks Ties, It comes up in 19x19. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Active activities as Widgets
Eben Eliason wrote: There are some activities where the chat is an integral part of the participants' experience. In my case, chatter during the Go game may be nonexistent to multiple lines of interactive tutorial per move to razzing and praise from any of the observers. This is why I plan to have a mute button that mutes all chat from observers. Unchecked, the button allows kibitzing from all XO's in the buddy panel that joined the PlayGo activity. Well, the exact implementation isn't well defined at this point. Obviously it's advantageous to be able to chat and work/play at the same time. Doing this generically is hard because the screen is rather small and there is no place where such a chat window can always be positioned such that it isn't in the way. The overlay idea, fullscreen or not, is the best general purpose solution we have so far. Perhaps if we gain compositing support it can work somewhat like growl on OSX; perhaps a global keystroke will initiate a new chat bubble so to speak, so that joining in the conversation doesn't require clicking a button on screen or shifting contexts. We're not sure the details yet, but the more seamless we can make it the better. Obviously you gain the most real-estate for the chat this way. However, this also cuts off the activity completely, if only temporarily, which may not be what we want in the end. I think something slightly lighter would be desired. The question remains as to whether or not it is repositionable, since we have yet to introduce the idea of windows. Obviously the push-to-talk method mitigates this problem, since the interface for such a system requires one onscreen button, or even one well known shortcut. I would like to see the OLPC retain its non-windowed presentation style. I have run into people that have no idea how many windows are running. When they do not see the browser, they simply start another one, ignoring Z order and minimized applications. Don't laugh, my wife and I are the ISP for our condo complex and we have a few service calls along these lines. Given the OLPC environment, fixed frames and whole screen activity switching makes a lot of sense. So if I am performing an activity that does not require chat and wish to reference a colleague on line, hitting F3 and choosing the chat application is not offensive at all. For those activities that require chat, the interaction should happen in the context of the application's display structure. I am lucky that my particular application is square, this lends the rest of the rectangle to the buddy panel, which has the list of the participants in the upper half with the lower half containing the chat window. I am just finishing the basic game communications and will be moving on to the game player negotiation and setups this weekend. I am resisting tabbing the tool bar for these tasks if at all possible to prevent my square Go board from getting any smaller. I have been reviewing the code in the chat application and given the abilities of the dbus do not feel that text messages will add all that much complexity to the application. My original query was not as much having a chat window in my activity but more of a Delphi like component that I could drop into the buddy panel weld into my existing tubes and be done with chat. I think there's something to be said for activities which don't require much oomf. I think the do one thing, do it well mantra is a good one, and one that might apply here. The screen is small, so dedicate as much space as possible to the board, which has a large number of squares. There is very limited RAM and CPU on these machines, so just because your game doesn't eat too much doesn't mean you should assume it will be reasonable to consume a significant amount of these for add-ons, not to mention greatly increase network activity. I'm not sure that a multi-way video conference is even feasible yet. I have now become anxious about whether the 19x19 go board is feasible on the OLPC. The game does have 9x9 and 13x13 modes of play. But the Go world considers these less than optimal. There will be quite some time before I get my G1G1's and only have sugar-jhbuild to run on. Is it possible for anyone reading this to download the basic frame and report if the 19x19 grid is usable? You may find it at https://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/PlayGo;a=tree Thanks - Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Active activities as Widgets
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Well, I know that I can make a user document with a running movie clip, real time view-finder of camera, spectrum analysis of audio input, and a user-scripted simulation going at the same time on B4 (4-5 fps is not so great though). These widgets are running in the same address space but that is offset by some facts such as Etoys display model is not optimal, our code for playing movie, copying bits of video frames to make the player a real end-user scriptable object, FFT are not optimized, etc. It should be possible to provide an ok experience for most of the time and I was not talking unrealistic rant, I believe. -- Yoshiki ___ Yoshiki, I am properly admonished and shall hold my performance speculations until my machines arrive. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Active activities as Widgets
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:30 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:15 , Morgan Collett wrote: Sugar will gain a feature called overlay chat, once we've got higher priority collaboration stuff completed, which will automagically add chat functionality to any (sugarised, python) activity. I thought this was intended to be a feature similar to the frame (and actually summoned by the frame key), layered on top of the activity, so it actually would work for *all* activities, Python or not. Definitely, it would have to work for all the activities. Not quite what I had in mind, so I'll go ahead with my chat widget and publish a wiki page on it. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [spam] Re: Active activities as Widgets
Eben Eliason wrote: Can you elaborate on the inadequacies you see in this design? It would be useful as we move forward with considerations for the ubiquitous chat interface. Unless specifically necessary to the activity in some fashion, we'd prefer to depend on this interface, preventing the need for individual activities to implement custom solutions which can come at a loss of consistency and a gain in activity size and duplicated code. - Eben There are some activities where the chat is an integral part of the participants' experience. In my case, chatter during the Go game may be nonexistent to multiple lines of interactive tutorial per move to razzing and praise from any of the observers. This is why I plan to have a mute button that mutes all chat from observers. Unchecked, the button allows kibitzing from all XO's in the buddy panel that joined the PlayGo activity. This is not the functionality that I interpreted from Bert's comment: I thought this was intended to be a feature similar to the frame (and actually summoned by the frame key), layered on top of the activity, so it actually would work for *all* activities, Python or not. - Bert - I may be wrong in interpreting the ubiquitous chat interface as a full screen overlay on top of the application where the child must either chat into the overlay or switch modes to play the game. Are you suggesting that the ubiquitous chat can be relegated to its own panel on the activity's screen so there is no mode switching between chat and the underlayed activity? Would either of the two (or more) participants in the activity be able to mute observers? I find both of these functionalities fundamental to the activity experience and the tutored activity experience. Also, being that most of the video processing is offloaded in the Geode, I look forward to morphing the chat panel into a video call to my Go opponent. The PlayGo application takes very little resource, so there is plenty of ommf left over to run the video call. It would be the next best thing to playing in the same room. - Gerard ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OLPC's ready for delivery
I just got the email announcing that the G1G1 will arrive before XMAS eve. Is it possible that the technically adept could get a machine sooner so I can participate in the release debug? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria
Call me too wary, but discussing these things in the open on the developer's list may provide information that lawyers may further find as fodder. nick knouf wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Richard Dobson wrote: José Antonio wrote: There is no intelectual property. Patents and copyright are just monopoly granted by state. Period. As any monopoly, this kind of monopoly cause damages to society. Why Exxon and AtT can't do monopoly, and Micorsoft and Warner can? I definitely agree with you; unfortunately there are lawyers that can make one's life very difficult because of these existing laws... In any case, I can't see what their case is. Their product (as clearly presented on their web site) uses two pairs of shift keys, left and right sides of the keyboard, to access multiple extra characters. The XO does not do this, as far as I can see. From my reading of the press release, it seems as if they are claiming infringement in drivers that come with the XO; that the XO contains code that interfaces with their proprietary keyboard design. I don't know enough about the product to know if their extra shift keys are simply coded as extra modifier keys, which would seem to make their claim of intellectual property quite shaky indeed. Even so, any case, if it were to go to trial, would likely be draining in terms of financial resources for OLPC, not to mention the potential for bad press. nick ___ 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
Re: Consistent sound
Mike, This looks like 1000% more than what I was suggesting and I am all for it. I would like to make a implementation suggestion. To keep this all simple I suggest the student use a naming convention either directly to the sound files or as symbolic links to the sound files in a single sound localization directory. so emote( laugh, 6 ) would play the sound file linked to laugh.6.wav in the the localization directory. Of course, the type of media file would be able to vary to anything there are standard players for in the OLPC. So laugh.6.gif would be selected if the machine was in silent mode. Perhaps if the laugh.gif is just a single simple image the intensity can do a animation with the image to indicate the intensity. Mike C. Fletcher wrote: The basic concept seems to be that of a system notification, as seen on all modern desktops. We'd need to integrate with Sugar and Bitfrost, and implement the generic emotional notifications for games and the like, but otherwise the implementation should be quite familiar. That should make it fairly straightforward to implement. I have a request from a consulting course at U of T to act as a client on a project for one of their students. I'll propose this as the project if people are amenable. Assumptions: * DBUS Interface o This lets non-python activities use the same interface o Python wrapper can be provided o A pipe-level interface might also be useful for games written by new coders (open pipe, write happy 2.5s\n) * Sugar Control Panel extensions to customise the sound-scape for each user (just think how quickly many people just *have* to shut off the Windows start sound) o Alternately, a GUI on the daemon that allows for customisation * Visual Notification options when muted o For the deaf/hard-of-hearing/classroom use * Severely restricted environment for the daemon/service o Access to sound files, preferably just those in the default set(s) plus those explicitly loaded by the user into the application's work-space via the configuration tool o Access to sound hardware o Access to current volume setting (read-only, likely) * Support Localisation for default sound-sets * Classic Notification Set (window actions, system startup/shutdown, that kind of thing) o Likely taken from an existing free-software system to start quickly * Emoticon Notification Set (emotional content, e.g. for games) with intensity setting * Sound implementation(s) o GStreamer sources + OGG files + Wav files o CSound scores * Visual notification implementation o Will require some coordination with the Sugar peoples to provide a non-obtrusive overlay notification mechanism ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Vexed with an Eclipse PyDev problem
Are the any Eclipse Pydev users in the house? I have a problem with the Pydev not recognizing parts of the Python objects. For instance: if gtk.gdk.keyval_name(event.keyval) yields the error: Undefined variable from import: keyval_namePlayGo/src widgettest.pyline 131195852124690178 Yet the program executes just fine. I system update tool updated my pyGTK on my stock Fedora 7 and when I ask the python 2.5 that comes up in the the shell for the method keyval_name, it is there in help(). This is the python 2.5 that I set Pydev using in Window-preferences. Here are a few notes on how I setup eclipse: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Gcerchio.diary So why isn't PyDev finding all the parts of my stock objects? Could it be finding an older PyGTK on the machine for the IDE and using the newer one for execution? Any Pointers would be greatly appreciated, my O'Reily Python library does not arrive till next week. Gerard J. Cerchio ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Vexed with an Eclipse PyDev problem
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: Are the any Eclipse Pydev users in the house? I have a problem with the Pydev not recognizing parts of the Python objects. As per the usual, public announcements of ignorance, immediately followed by RTFM discovery :( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Gcerchio.diary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
wwj
I thought today's Wall Street Journal article was brutal, does Murdock already have control? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Consistent sound
Hi, I am just beginning to get involved with the OLPC so please forgive me if this topic is already covered. I am also new to python so my learning curve is somewhat steep. I am attempting to build a go game activity starting with the connect_activity. I would like to produce sounds for various game play events such as victory, loss, atari, etc. I would also like the sounds the child hears from the OLPC be consistent and culturally appropriate. I would posit that if all the activities made consistent utterances to the child, the value of the OLPC learning experience would be enhanced. I would like to suggest a way to give a this consistent localized sound personality to the OLPC through the csound object. I propose that there be a simple csound method: emote( emotion, intensity ) where emotion is a string index into a table of localized sounds intensity is an integer that regulates the degree of the emotion Sample emotion strings would be: win - produces a reward sound appropriate to the locale lose - opposite of win yes - indicate acceptance no - opposite of no warn - indicate more thought may be required approval - encourage disapproval - discourage The intensity may select a different sound or if the table lacks multiple intensities may just adjust volume. The goal of the object is to give activity designers a sound palate that is localized to the cultural of the child. In c++ I would use an enumerator for the emotion parameter, however it appears python lacks enumerators. Is there a better python/sugar methodology that would simplify the interface to the sound selection? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
