Mitch Bradley wrote:
Our system is loosely based on Fedora Core 6. The core graphics
toolkit is called Cairo. Information about it may be found at
http://www.cairographics.org . Cairo just handles the graphical
output. For input and windowing, we use the GTK+ toolkit, see
http://www.gtk.org .
Happy Coding,
Mitch Bradley
Hey Mitch, is there a version of your Forth that runs under Linux, or do
I have to type L1-A (or whatever it is on the OLPC) and halt the
operating system to get at the Forth interpreter? I miss the old
Forthmacs that I used to run under SunOS on the SPARC.
Martin, are you porting the Mid-Summer Night's Dream Illumination eBook
you described on your web page? That's interesting because I'm working
on an eBook reader that supports PDF, which is good for text as well as
illustrations, and is programmable in Python. You will be able to render
PDF on the screen using the Cairo graphics library from Python programs.
So you could convert the text and graphics to PDF, and write a Python
program to display it and interact with the user. (The eBook reader will
let you read any PDF document of course, but it will be nice to add some
interactive "special sauce" to make it more interesting that a paper book).
I'd love to see some kind of collaborative eBook sharing activity that
lets kids synchronize the pages of their eBooks over the wireless
network, with a bouncing ball or highlighting that prompts kids to read
lines of a play out loud, each kid playing a different character. A
Mid-Summer Night's Dream would be excellent material for that kind of
shared activity.
-Don
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