offer of assistance: Java and Qt

2012-03-25 Thread Karl Pietrzak
Hello there! My name is Karl, and I'm wondering if I can be of any (development) assistance. I know Linux, Java and, to a lesser extent, Qt. Please don't hesitate to give me a shout back, thank you! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-27 Thread karl ramberg
tween reboots. And I look forward to Firefox downloads to Journal, it is a little timeconsuming to exit Firefox and open Browse to download a pdf or other format. Some annotation tool is probably a must for education. Karl ___ Devel mailing

Date And Time control panel renamed to Timezones ?

2008-09-12 Thread karl ramberg
The control panel called Date and time could maybe be renamed Timezones as you really don't set or see either date or time with the current one. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Scratch fails to write to Scratch.activity/Projects

2008-08-27 Thread karl ramberg
Bert have implemented Etoy saving to the Journal but I guess the backporting that to older Squeak images Scratch use could be a issue. On 8/27/08, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erik, John et al, > > Scratch is hot in the field right now! > > Kids are posting Scratch projects out of Ur

Re: etoys implementation

2008-06-25 Thread Karl Ramberg
ation of the main classes and Etoy classes can be done, it's a big job and can become a hassle when all kinds of different users have their own agenda and objectives. Therefor a plethora of images are available and are specialized for their use, much like different Linux distributions. Karl _

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Karl Ramberg
ut device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpr3W-YmcQ With this, one could start experimenting with features and possible issues such a device brings up. Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: #7062 NORM Never A: TestTile does not alow 'random (5) = 3'

2008-05-23 Thread Karl Ramberg
Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: > #7062: TestTile does not alow 'random (5) = 3' > -+-- > Reporter: karl| Owner: etoys > Type: defect | Status: new

Re: Frame Decision (was [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release)

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Ramberg
need to be able to distinguish between entering the > corner on the drag of an object and drag of not-an-object (like a > paintbrush). > > In fact, just doing that right would resolve the worst Frame > interaction with Paint since the Frame would not activat

Re: New joyride build 1935

2008-05-10 Thread Karl Ramberg
Now that activities no longer are included in the builds could Berts update activities script be included ? http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py <http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebert/update-activities.py> Karl ___ Devel mailing list

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-29 Thread karl
rent projects ? Anyway here is a list of things I think would be nice if they where addressed :-) -Gnash enhancement as someone mentioned -Read activity should be able to handle big (>20M) pdf without problems -Read activity should bookmark where you are at when quiting -Read activity annotations -

Olpc-update issues

2008-04-29 Thread karl
It seems the latest updates to Joyride is not propagated to where ever olpc-update get its update info from. It stopped working after 1898 http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Auto backlight management?

2008-04-25 Thread karl
esign it may be > cheaper and better to add a photo sensor than this. > > The biggest benefit I see from adding this is power savings. The > backlight should be automatically turned off when there is enough > ambient light, to save

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-24 Thread karl
: > > old := PasteUpMorph allInstances. > > Then load IIM4_2_money identification.011.pr and come back. In the > same workspace evaluate: > > new := PasteUpMorph allInstances. > new := (new copyFrom: old size + 1 to: new size). > new := new select: [:e | e

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-23 Thread karl
d > neverending gratitude, as might be the result of solving the image > growth problem. > Since you use your own image, epaati, you could just load all the projects and save the image with them loaded. You would have a giant image but switching would be quick. External projects is more

Re: [squeak-dev] to be deployed Epaati version is out!

2008-04-22 Thread karl
Congratulations ! I have not looked at the latest stuff yet, but it looked impressive a few weeks back :-) Karl Ties Stuij wrote: > Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially > tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the > first buil

Re: Benevolence and morale

2008-04-21 Thread karl
helping > people, you'll keep working even when it seems like your startup is > doomed." > > Anyway, read the whole essay to get the context. > > Morgan I liked this picture from former OLPC worker Ivan Krstic' describing the startup process: http://radian.org/noteb

Problems with Olpc-update and Joyride

2008-04-21 Thread karl
Olpc-update fails to load any updates for me in after Joyride-1872. It says there is no such update in updates.laptop.org. Anybody else experiencing this ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Etoys] how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread karl
on seems to me to be a bit ugly. Maybe I should just go on and > do practical stuff though. But it would be useful perhaps when some > kids might want to start hacking on Squeak level. But maybe not... > > /Ties > __ A activity with Squeak would be nice, and even useful

Re: Face Detection and other Vision Processing (and some sample code)

2008-03-20 Thread karl
info/devel > > I made a demo in Etoys for color tracking objects with the camera: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/camTrack.pr Have good lighting and a distinctly colored object. Pick the color from the object with the color picker and a yellow ellipse on screen will

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-20 Thread karl
It is quite powerful for programming up to 1 turtles in simulations. http://www.squeakland.org/fun_projects/kedama/kedma_welcome.htm Karl > > It seems there are two main ways I could focus my attention (not > necessarily mutually exclusive): > 1. creating and expanding on a simulation en

Re: Read Activity slowness

2008-03-01 Thread karl
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Mar 1, 2008, at 21:16 , karl wrote: > > >> I found extreme slowness issues with the Read activity on this >> document: >> http://vpri.org/pdf/steps_TR-2007-008.pdf >> The document will render but it is 'prohibitively

Read Activity slowness

2008-03-01 Thread karl
ow_bug.cgi?id=183397 Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

2008-02-11 Thread Karl
ound flash version 3. Zip works great on other platforms, but with Journal and the ZIP UI using a tiny font is is quite useless. Html rendering is not great, but works for basic simple html. What MIME type do you think it should not claim ? Karl _

Where are the latest builds ?

2008-02-07 Thread karl
Latests builds directories (1657) contain just build logs that I think say the disk is full ? http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1657/devel_jffs2/ Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:03 AM, karl wrote: >> Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a >> fresh new Journal. > > On builds 653 and later (G1G1 machines shipped with 650), you can open > Terminal and do: > > $ ec

Resetting Journal

2008-02-04 Thread karl
Is there a way to zap the Journal and all the Journal entries and get a fresh new Journal. Kind of what one do on a USB stick when one delete the .olpc.store file on it ? Or do I have to reflash the Nand ? Karl ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: PDF reader not really user friendly...

2008-01-26 Thread Karl
d to allow for > simple scrolling, paging, and zooming features with the available set > of buttons, which should make it easy to view any format without the > need for the toolbars at all. Is there a way to annotate the text, put in bookmarks, etc ? I find that the reader does not remem