errors running E-Paati image
Bryan Berry
I see that you have changed the image file and separated the projects
from it.
http://olenepal.org/activities_download.html
fyi, I wasn't able to run these projects on Ubuntu.
I tried dragging and dropping the *.pr files into the image but I get
"Syntax Error" and the project fails to load.
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:12 +0545, Om Prakash Yadav wrote:
> Surendra is working on it. We hope to have the fixed image file today.
> Will inform you after uploading it to the server tonight.
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> Sulochan is looking into the OLPC bug reporting as suggested by Bryan
> and I will coordinate with him on this one.
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> Om
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> From: Rabi Karmacharya [mailto:ra...@olenepal.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:18 PM
> To: Luke Gorrie; Sulochan Acharya
> Cc: Om Prakash Yadav; Saurav Dev Bhatta; lu...@olenepal.org; Bryan
> Berry
> Subject: Re:
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> Om.
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> Who has been assigned to fix the bug that Luke has pointed out below?
> Make sure that the person notifies the group after the fix has been
> made.
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> In order to organize this better, we should set up an internal bug
> tracker so that we have a better idea of the status of the bugs and
> the person who is assigned to each one.
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> [Sulochan, please go ahead and set one up if we do not have it
> already.]
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> Also, you need to make sure that you coordinate with the development
> team to regularly document our work and keep posting on our mailing
> list.
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> -Rabi
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> Luke Gorrie wrote:
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> On 01/01/2008, Om Prakash Yadav <o...@olenepal.org> wrote:
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> The E-paati activities bundle is available for download from our website.
> Visit the home page or you can go directly to the download page at
> http://olenepal.org/activities_download.html
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> Great work!!
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> I've found a couple of bugs but I'm about to go away from computers
> for the next week so I'll only report and not fix!
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> Bug #1 is that clicking on the icons on the main menu doesn't load the
> projects on the Mac (and maybe not on Linux too). If you 'explore' one
> of the thumbnails you can see that the path to the activity uses a
> combination of Unix and Windows path separators (/ and \) when it
> should really just use one or the other. See screenshot!
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> A good solution would be for the 'rescan' script of World to
> automatically run when the image is started -- that would fix all of
> the icons, but I'm not sure how to make this happen. A kludge solution
> might be to simply use / instead of \ because I *think* that / works
> on Mac/Linux/Windows (even though \ is more usual on Windows). The
> kludge could either be done by just updating the main menu project on
> a Linux machine (so it uses /) or by changing the Smalltalk code that
> creates the icon (it's the Project class method called
> iconFor:inDirectory:) to use '/' directly instead of "FileDirectory
> slash".
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> Bug #2 is that the new activity LargestNumber doesn't load from the
> menu. I think this is due to a Squeak bug: the project uses a font
> with a pointSize that is not already initialized in the image and this
> causes an error during loading. The font is DevanagariNew with point
> size 60.
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> I suggest opening a bug report on Etoys with OLPC's Trac system on this.
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> I can think of two workarounds: one is to switch the activity to use a
> pointSize that's already initialized in the image (e.g. 72). The other
> is to update the image: create a TextMorph, switch it to Devanagari
> font with 'new point size' of 60 (you might see an error when you do
> this but I think it's ok to just say Abandon). Then you will have size
> 60 available in your image -- you can save the image, and the project
> should work.
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> Hope this helps!
> Cheers,
> -Luke
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