I worked on a new version over the weekend. This one seems to do the trick :)
I decided to make a full XO bundle for testing this time: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/Scratch-20100308.xo That's because there are a few new files, like project/sprite SVG icons, mimetypes.xml, the scratch-wrapper script was scrapped etc. Most significantly, resuming from the Journal (or Home screen in newer Sugar) works now. It may not always resume a project you saved in my last version, but loading those and resaving should fix the metadata. "Save" always overwrites the previous Journal entry, "Save as" always creates a new one. Metadata is preserved, that is, if you added a tag in the Journal it should still be there after re-saving. Same for the description - this is kept separate from the project's comment you see inside Scratch because I could not figure out which one should win if they differ. The metadata contains the full project summary, so if you search e.g. for a sprite name in the Journal, projects containing it are found. If John fixes the PNG generator we can also have thumbnails in the Journal. Otherwise I consider this to be pretty much complete :) Please report back with any problems you find. Everything Journal-related should work now. - Bert - On 02.03.2010, at 06:54, Claudia Urrea wrote: > > Bert, > > I downloaded this new version... > > 1. open a project: it works! Even the ones I had downloaded before > worked, so it was not a problem with the download. > 2. save a project works also! > 3. Importing a project.. doesn't work! > 4. Importing a costume, both using simple directory and sugar widget works! > > I will a complete test tomorrow. > > Claudia > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have another version for testing. Code: >> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/SugarScratch-bf-2010Mar01.zip >> >> Pre-made ScratchXO.image: >> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/scratch/ScratchXO-bf-2010Mar01.zip >> >> This now supports writing/exporting to the Journal, so is almost >> feature-complete. >> >> I added a USB button as suggested. It opens "/media" directly, which appears >> to work fine. However, the USB stick must be inserted before launching >> Scratch. This might be a limitation of Rainbow. >> >> USB support is very different between Sugar versions. In 0.82 each USB drive >> appeared as different "mountpoint" in the datastore, they could be >> enumerated and the Journal queries could be filtered by mountpoint. >> Unfortunately, no filtering is done by default, so if you mount a USB drive >> on an XO-1, the USB files will show up even when you click Scratch's Journal >> button. >> >> Newer Sugar versions apparently don't allow to access different mountpoints >> anymore. The "mountpoint" property of each Journal entry seems to be present >> randomly. OTOH, files on USB do not clutter the regular file list. >> >> I might have to special-case Sugar 0.82 and filter the list for the main >> datastore mountpoint only ... >> >> TODO: Saving (even under the same name) always creates a new Journal entry. >> I need to figure out how to preserve the identity of entries. Also, metadata >> is not preserved yet. >> >> I did implement preview thumbnails when saving projects, however I disabled >> it because the PNG writer in Scratch creates corrupt images. I tried to >> compare it to the one in Etoys which was fixed long ago but couldn't easily >> figure out the problem. >> >> - Bert - >> >> On 25.02.2010, at 19:09, John Maloney wrote: >>> Hi, Bert and Claudia. >>> >>> I've done some more testing; results below. >>> >>> Claudia, it's great that you are able to send error logs to Bert to help >>> him debug. I'm pretty busy with about three other projects, so I may not >>> have time to do much more testing. >>> >>> Bert, I looked over your code. It's about what I expected -- lots of DBus >>> code, some compatibility methods, and the changes to the dialog boxes. >>> There were one or two methods that I might want to look at more closely and >>> perhaps ask you about. I'll let you know if I have questions. >>> >>> Seems like there are a few issues we might consider: >>> >>> a. Should we add a link to get to the USB drive? >>> b. If we had an easy way to get to the USB drive, do we actually need a >>> way to access the Journal "object view"? >>> c. How important is it to be able to save/export files to the Journal? >>> Seems like being able to import and open projects from the journal is the >>> highest priority, so if Bert is running out of hours to work on this, >>> perhaps save/export is something we could omit. But that's up to Claudia to >>> decide. Note that if we had an easy way to get to the USB drive that might >>> be a way to move data between Scratch and the Journal when necessary. >>> >>> It's really coming along! >>> >>> -- John >>> >>> Issue summary: >>> * downloaded projects files is always "download" >>> * importing sounds does not appear to work >>> * should we replace one link button (e.g. "data") with a "USB" link? >>> >>> My configuration is: >>> XO 1.0 hardware; Sugar 0.82.1, build 802 >>> >>> Project Downloading Tests >>> >>> This works for me. I use Browse to go the Scratch website, log in, then >>> click download link on a project to download it. >>> Note: if you forget to log in you get a dialog box title "rainbow-daemon" >>> that says "Please login". >>> >>> When you download a Scratch project, the download URL is something like: >>> http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/johnm/902126/download >>> Thus, all Scratch projects appear in journal a "download", and when you >>> open the project in Scratch, it's title is "download". (Sorry, I was >>> mistaken earlier when I said I saw the project name in the journal.) Bert, >>> it's a bit more work, but you could extract the project's name from the >>> project history (the last "share" entry). >>> >>> Import Tests >>> >>> Importing a costume or backgrounds from the Journal works. >>> >>> It appears that importing a sound does not work, but I'm not positive I did >>> the right test. I made a sound recording with the "Record" activity. But >>> when I do "import sound" and click on the "journal" link, I do not see any >>> sound entries. >>> >>> I believe importing a list would work. At least, when I try to import a >>> list and click on the "journal" link I see a bunch of files, which I assume >>> are all the plain text files in the journal. >>> >>> Import/Open Dialog Link Buttons >>> >>> The link buttons on the Import Costume dialog box are: >>> >>> Computer -- shows contents of / (the root of the file system) >>> data -- this is the isolated data folder for the Scratch activity (on >>> other computers this shows the user's home folder) >>> Desktop -- shows same folder as "data" >>> Costumes -- Scratch's costume folder >>> Journal -- the journal >>> >>> Since "data" and "Desktop" are redundant, I think one of those could be >>> used to show the first mounted USB drive (or /media if there is not USB >>> drive). >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
