Moon, new activity available

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi Gary,

thanks for this nice activity - pointed my attention to the lunar 
eclipse tonight. Hence, I had to feature it in my little install 
tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse#Install_an_activity

Looking forward for your next contributions.
    Simon

Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi Devels,
> 
> Well... Just in time for the Lunar eclipse in a couple of days! I  
> wanted post my first Sugar activity port here, it is a conversion/ 
> update from an OS X Cocoa app I wrote some years back. It is a v1 so  
> be kind, but happy to hear any feedback about making this a more  
> productive/educational activity for sharing, or if you spot any faux  
> pas in terms of a Sugar/XO activity.
> 
> 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Moon
> 
> This was a learning exercise for me, Python I know, but GTK (and the  
> provided Sugar environment) well that was all new. Embarrassed to say  
> it actually took me a day to get a black background to the Moon widget  
> area (!!) but I picked up a little speed after that, honest :-)
> 
> Happy Moon/eclipse watching.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary C. Martin
> 
> P.S. "Earth" is my next planned port (from EarthGlobe), though there  
> are a few extra hurdles to resolve for that one (i.e. quick 3d sphere  
> rotation interaction given no OpenGL support). Might have to drop to  
> wireframe during manipulation, or get dirty with a C Python extension.  
> Shout if I missed something obvious here.
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