Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread James Simmons
I built a crystal radio as a kid. As I remember it, you make a razor-blade diode by laying the razor flat and using the point of a safety pin as the cat's whisker. The book I read this in was similar to this article on "foxhole radios": http://www.crystalradio.net/crystalplans/xximages/foxholeem

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread forster
> Interesting...can you elaborate? (crystal radio was a childhood > obsession of mine...) > > Sameer see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#The_XO_as_an_audio_amplifier I was able to build a crystal radio from XO, wire, cardboard, plastic sheet and foi

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

2010-12-04 Thread Art Hunkins
FWIW, this is the "font-sizing code" I ended up using in my three activities (OurMusic, SunMoonMusic and FileMix). It is contained near the beginning of the csndsugui.py module. It contains an option for the user to resize text in the given activity for the particular monitor, and sizes for OLP

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > Hi all > Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. > Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the > speaker? > Tony > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list >

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

2010-12-04 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > On 4 Dec 2010, at 16:48, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Sascha > I understand your comments, but I think we need to prioritize the simple > use of the more useful features. > A spinbutton is not IMHO a good interface to change the zoom level, but I

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Martin
On 4 Dec 2010, at 16:48, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Sascha > I understand your comments, but I think we need to prioritize the simple use > of the more useful features. > A spinbutton is not IMHO a good interface to change the zoom level, but I am > not sure, that's the reason > why I asked to th

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

2010-12-04 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Sascha I understand your comments, but I think we need to prioritize the simple use of the more useful features. A spinbutton is not IMHO a good interface to change the zoom level, but I am not sure, that's the reason why I asked to the UI team. Another option is add a button to set the zoom at Pag

Re: [Sugar-devel] get list of titles in the datastore?

2010-12-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
This limitation was already documented here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API#Querying To my knowledge that page is reasonably up-to-date. Please correct it if I'm wrong ;) - Bert - On 04.12.2010, at 04:03, Erik Blankinship wrote: > from #sugar... > alsroot

Re: [Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

2010-12-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Fri Dec 03 14:00:58 +0100 2010: > You can increment/decrement the zoom with Ctrl + / - to any level. Is that discoverable? What are the increments (step size)? How fast is it? It usually takes me only very few tries to choose the correct zoom level by e