I've received questions about configuring Tux Paint for Mac OS X via
private e-mail a few times (just now, for instance :^) ), and I had
to fire up the ol' iMac to remind myself of the steps. :^)
I guess I never posted anything to the lists, or maybe I'm too tired to find
them in the archives. So, here you go.
Want to set Tux Paint to full-screen in Mac OS X, for example?
(How many ways can I feed Google? ;^) )
This applies to Tux Paint 0.9.12, and presumably earlier. (I hope that in
version 0.9.13 and beyond, the configuration file will be read from
~/Library/Preferences, or something similar... But we'll see :^) )
I've tested it under Apple Mac OS X 10.1. I assume later versions will work
fine, too...
Anyway, step one, open up the Unix Terminal window under Mac OS X.
This can be found on the hard drive under "Applications", and then "Utilities"
When it loads, you should see a simple window with text similar to the
following:
Welcome to Darwin!
[lime-imac:~] billkendrick%
In this case, "Lime iMac" is the name given to this computer... which just
so happens to be a lime-colored iMac. How imaginative. ;^)
The "~" is a short-handed way of telling me I happen to be sitting in my
home directory at the moment. ("/Users/billkendrick", to be precise.)
The "billkendrick" reminds me that I'm logged in, and running commands as
the user "billkendrick", which my friend made for me before loaning me this
Mac.
Finally, the "%" is the final character of this command prompt.
Okay, enough picking that apart. All that matters is you're at a command
prompt, and you're in your home directory! (I assume you're logged in
as the user who will be playing with Tux Paint... so if your son or daughter
has a different account that they use, you'll wannt to log out, and then
log back in as them, and start over!)
Now to create the Tux Paint configuration file, which in the world of
Unix, Linux, and in version 0.9.12, Mac OS X, is named ".tuxpaintrc"
('dot tux paint r c, all lowercase').
(Under Windows, the file is named "tuxpaint.cfg", for your information.)
This requires only one simple command in the Unix Terminal, and then you
can high-tail it out of there. :^) At the prompt, type the following,
and then hit the [return] key:
echo "fullscreen=yes" > .tuxpaintrc
Those are double-quotes around the option ("fullscreen=yes", no spaces!),
and a greater-than ([shift] + [.] on US keyboards).
Now that that's done, you should see the same "%" prompt as before.
Go ahead and quit the Terminal. ([Apple] + [Q], for example)
Run Tux Paint, and it should appear in all its full screen glory!
(On this iMac running OS X 10.1, the screen fades out, flashes a couple
times, and then Tux Paint fades in. Kinda cool!)
Okay, so what if you want to add options, or change them later!
Well, here's where it gets a little easier. No more "Terminal" this time!
Load up "TextEdit", which should be on your hard disk, under "Applications".
Select File -> Open (or press [Apple] + [O]). You'll hopefully already be
in your home directory. You probably can't SEE the ".tuxpaintrc" file,
but you can load it!
In the "Go to:" field, type the file name:
.tuxpaintrc
and then hit [return] or click the 'Open' button. Voila! You should be
staring at a window with the text:
fullscreen=yes
Now you can edit, change, etc. See Tux Paint's main README file for
all the gory details on what options you can set.
Enjoy!
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint!
http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
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