Downloading Scratch project to XO

[John Maloney]

Hi, Bert.

Re: does Scratch accept a .sb file on its command line?

Yes, it does.

The problem is that the journal is changing the file extension to  
something like .bin, and Scratch doesn't think a .bin file is a  
Scratch project file and simply ignores it.

I believe the issue is just that we need one extra file in the Scratch  
activity info to tells the Journal that Scratch handles the file  
extensions .sb and .sprite. I figured out what that file should have  
in it a few weeks back but haven't yet had a chance to try it.

I'll give it a try and, if it works, I'll release a new version of  
Scratch on the XO that includes that file.

	-- John


On Dec 15, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> John,
>
> does Scratch accept a .sb file on its command line?
>
> If so, the launcher script could get the file from the Journal and  
> pass it on.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 15.12.2008, at 18:53, John Maloney wrote:
>
>> Hi, Phillipp.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this problem. I believe there is a way to tell
>> the XO to associate the .sb file extension with Scratch. I will look
>> into that and let you know if I figure it out.
>>
>> 	-- John
>>
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Philipp Kocher wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I would like to download Scratch projects from a local server to the
>>> XO.
>>>
>>> On the server I added the following line to the file /etc/ 
>>> mime.types:
>>> application/scratch             sb
>>>
>>> The apache server is now sending files with sb-extension with mime
>>> type application/scratch.
>>>
>>> On the XO the mime type gets stored in the datastore metadata-file.
>>> After adding the following line to the Scratch activity/
>>> activity.info file, Scratch gets started when clicking on the
>>> Scratch project in the Journal:
>>> mime_types = application/scratch
>>>
>>> The problem is that the project doesn't get opened. The scratch
>>> start script bin/scratch-activity gets called with the -u argument
>>> holding a datastore object ID, but the script doesn't handle the -u
>>> argument.
>>>
>>> How can I convert a datastore object ID to a filename, so scratch
>>> can open the project? And how do I get the necessary permissions to
>>> access the file?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Philipp
>>> Pepyride School
>>> Cambodia
>>
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