[Etoys] Feature future Re: The New Etoys image

[karl]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>>> retty much feature- complete.
>>>       
>> I know feature creep is easy but here are a few items I have  
>> thought would be great:
>>
>> -Some sort of  scripting access to Journal files so one can build  
>> media players (slideshows, music player etc) without internalizing  
>> the files.
>>     
>
> That would be cool. Can you imagine how it should look like? We have  
> not had that functionality in Etoys before (like, making a slideshow  
> from a directory of files).
>   
My thought was to add a category to Holders which would look something like
Add Journal entry named:(name)
Add all Journal entries:(picture, movie or sound) (I'm not sure text 
would make any sense here)
Add all Journal entries named (name + wildcard)(If the I have a bunch of 
entries named similarly eg: 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2')
Add all Journal entries:(picture, movie or sound) from date:(aDate or 
several dates or time span) ( I have to look into the use case here but 
dates  could be like from January 1 to January 10, a year etc )

I have not grokked Journal yet, so this could take some time :-)
All references to Journal entries should be freed when a project is 
saved and looked up again when the project is loaded or run.


>   
>> -Ogg Theora video seems to be the format of the Recording Activity  
>> so we should support that.
>>     
>
> We hope to have a gstreamer plugin, which also would support Theora.
>   
Cool
>   
>> -Diego's Image Processing (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411) and  
>> since there is no photo enhancement / adjusting activity I know of  
>> it is quite useful.
>>     
>
> Did you test this on the XO? Might make a nice activity.
>   
I have not tested it yet. I did test a picture warper from SqueakMap 
though and that was a lot of fun, you can make long nose, crocked eyes etc
>   
>> -Export of pictures to Journal
>>     
>
> You can copy to the clipboard and add it to the journal from there.
>   
Ok, I have had not been able to add images and sounds from the clipboard 
to Squeak. Is it a known issue ?
>   
>> -Enhance the sound and music tools in the image so they look and  
>> feel and behave better.
>>     
>
> Who could work on that? But it would be great, yes.
>   
I have been looking, not much progress yet.
>   
>> -Skeleton (http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/11) and further  
>> enhance the spread sheet and animation
>>     
>
> That would be cool as a project, as well as ODECo.
>   
Yes
>   
>> Faster project loading could make diverse activities possible by  
>> quick loading of features.
>>     
>
> That's stuff I wouldn't count as "new feature". And Luke seems to be  
> onto something there ...
>   
That is good.

Karl
>   
>> Did I forget anything ? :-)
>>     
>
> Certainly, and me too ;)
>
> - Bert -
>
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