[Etoys] Re: Launching project from web browser

Samuel Klein sjklein at hcs.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 29 14:20:06 EDT 2007


Hello --

This is great.  what are the direct links to the etoys projects that ship 
on the build?  I want to include them in the 'games' page in the library
for the test.

SJ



On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I worked with Marco P. G. on launching projects from the web activity. We got 
> that working - if you visit a .pr file on the web it is downloaded and placed 
> in the frame's clipboard area (left edge). Additionally, the etoys activity 
> is launched, and the project is loaded (once I published my changes).
>
> Note this only works with direct links to a project file, not if it is 
> embedded as plugin in a page as we do for other squeakland projects. So this 
> will work on the XO:
>
> 	http://freudenbergs.de/bert/etoys/OLPC-XO-Display.pr
>
> but this on a regular machine:
>
> 	http://squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://freudenbergs.de/bert/etoys/OLPC-XO-Display.pr
>
> It should work (but I have not tested this yet) to link to some example etoys 
> is /usr/share/etoys/ExampleEtoys from the Library html file. Might make a 
> nice demo.
>
> Is there anything else on the wishlist for test1?
>
> - Bert -
>


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