Read Etexts activity on OLPC Activities page

Activity this far. I hope to continue work on it and its sister activity View Slides until they are both worthy and useful additions to the Activities catalog for the XO. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Metadata preserved across reboots?

n the USB and SD, I don't know if the metadata is saved or not. I suppose it could be saved and never retrieved. In any case, it's nice to know this is a bug and not intentional. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >When is metadata not saved? Or you mean the metadata is saved b

Metadata preserved across reboots?

ke this is an actual deliberate feature. Am I understanding this correctly? James Simmons I also went through a number of activity sources in git looking for > examples, but I didn't find one that ONLY used metadata. They all seem > to either not bother storing any UI state (so r

Git Repository, etc. for Read ETexts Activity Project

. Suggestions for names would be welcome. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Beyond Hello World

s, like most of it is already. I'd move the Activity bundle example to its own page. My page could be chapter 2, as Edward Cherlin suggested. My EtextReader Activity, when it is hosted, could be the sample for that chapter. James Simmons Eduardo Silva wrote: >Hi, > >Some month

Beyond Hello World

from only one place: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers If the consensus is that the page is of some use, I or others can link to it from more places. Thanks, James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: On Feb 15, 2008 9:12 AM, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edward, I browsed

Read ETexts Activity Text To Speech

roject on SourceForge and it would be simple enough to set up another one. James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: >Will it include Text-to-Speech, for the purposes we have discussed on >this list? If so, could we get some sort of cursor or coloring effect >to

Re: Read ETexts Activity

hout messing up anything that's already there. Also, anything I get wrong could be corrected by others. James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: >I started a document on the Wiki, Programming for Children >(activities), and another, Programming with Children (tutorials). Your >input wou

Re: Read ETexts Activity

s). Your input would be most welcome. See the OLPC Publications page for more suggestions and invitations. I'll definitely check them out. James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read ETexts Activity

mputer programs. James Simmons Edward Cherlin wrote: >Will it include Text-to-Speech, for the purposes we have discussed on >this list? If so, could we get some sort of cursor or coloring effect >to show the illiterate or semi-literate wh

Read ETexts Activity

is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 jdsimmons James Simmons ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

g. I thought having my own MIME type would solve the problem, but that was only because I didn't understand what the real problem was. James Simmons Albert Cahalan wrote: The faster sugar can phase out MIME the better. The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is using th

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

wSlides activity kind of dubious. James Simmons >Ok, so what if your activity registers into the mime registry a new type >like application/x-slide-activity associated to the *.slide glob? That >can be done in the mimetypes.xml file. And then your activity should add >this mime to t

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

Carl, If I can get this working I'll definitely use a MIME type like activity/x-slide-activity. I want to distribute this activity when its finished. Thanks, James Simmons Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi James, On 06.02.2008 16:46, James Simmons wrote: I agree I have no bus

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

etup.py devel" again to create a symbolic link to mimetypes.xml, because that file did not exist when I ran that last. I'd like to get the activity working really well on the simulator before trying it out on the XO. Thanks again for your help. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrot

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

suffix to be opened by my Activity by default. Unfortunately, the files by their nature must be created by a program other than the Activity. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks, James Simmons Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 04.02.2008 18:21, James Simmons wrote: To accomplish this

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

I had thought of putting in a slideshow feature too. The problem is getting the program to run by resuming the file from the Journal. I'm using my work email account and the application is at home. I can send it to you as an attachment later if you still think it would help. Thanks, Jame

How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

m doing it correctly. I'd appreciate any information on MIME types or on alternative approaches that would solve problems 1-3. Thanks much, James Simmons ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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