Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
faster? On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:21, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: Hi, I have just joined this list and read through the archives, but could not find anything similar. I also didn't find mention of anything similar on the OLPC Wiki

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
thanks, i forgot to create the index.html symlink on that web server :) http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see-olpc/ should work now. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, i added

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
. Our standard is to increment the version # in the metadata every time you make a change; that allows tools like Sugar's software updater know when there are newer versions of packages available to install. SJ On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
install itself into your Library/ directory. I don't know about that page not rendering properly on an XO; what version of Browse are you running? SJ On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! A few questions, though: 1. Is there any reason I

Re: Touch pads

2008-11-25 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
not sure whether this is the same bug/limitation, but i have noticed the touchpad goes haywire when my daughter uses it with a bit of food on her fingers (obviously i try to avoid letting this happen, but sometimes it does anyhow...) i just tried to simulate this. as a test i used an eyedropper

Re: Wine activity

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
That's awesome work! I was able to install Wine and use it, including firefox and a win32 application I had previously build using mingw32 under Linux on another PC and uploaded to a webserver, and then downloaded using firefox inside wine. However, I did notice the following oddities: 1. When I

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
a webserver that has mimetypes set properly (such as w.l.o) it should automatically install itself into your Library/ directory. I don't know about that page not rendering properly on an XO; what version of Browse are you running? SJ On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL

Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software

2009-01-05 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
some time last month and ported Yay! Bee See to PyGTK so it would behave as a normal activity, but if we had the system I described in Sugar already, I wouldn't have done so. My link is http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/Yay!BeeSee-2.xo Best, Wade On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler

SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
A friend of mine wrote a hand/eye coordination game called SarynPaint and recently released the source code. SarynPaint is written in Java, so you'll need to install OpenJDK to use it. I just checked in minimal support for launching it from Sugar and rolled a .xo activity bundle file. The

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle for Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK, since the versioning issues (which OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,) packaging unknowns (how does

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
support or text input there's really no reason for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume support might be nice to have on all platforms someday. On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Ben, On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: I think

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Hi, and thanks for trying it out! On 2009-08-29, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches and runs on