<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Luxi Sans'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On April 9, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
> On 09.04.2009, at 06:49, Milan Zimmermann wrote:<br>
> > Hi Bert,<br>
> ><br>
> > This is very cool - I looked inside the FreeCell content viewer:<br>
><br>
> FreeCell activity, please. "Content viewer" does not really apply to<br>
> Etoys.<br>
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> > this is basically an example that can be used to expose parts of<br>
> > Etoys for example, the speech synthetizer if it still exists, the<br>
> > painting tool, the MPeg player etc, as content or even activity<br>
><br>
> Right. I tried to communicate this several times before, but it seems<br>
> to be worth repeating ;) The first was in July 2007 in fact:<br>
><br>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2007-July/000684.html<br>
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> Anyway, you can rather easily make your own Squeak-based activity,<br>
> even on a Mac or Win box: select a .pr or .st file, and click the "XO"<br>
> button in the FileList. Voila. You get a skeleton activity that should<br>
> work out-of-the-box if you install it in Sugar. Then you still have to<br>
> manually edit it of course, replacing the default icon etc. but it's a<br>
> fine start and in fact exactly what I did for FreeCell.<br>
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> > (although without the Suger interactions I guess), right?<br>
><br>
> It could have full Sugar interaction. From time to time I do explain<br>
> how to access the Journal from Squeak, that could be used to save/load<br>
> state. Same for network collaboration.<br>
><br>
> If you are interested we can work on extending the FreeCell activity<br>
> together. Like adding Journal save/resume.<br>
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> - Bert -<br>
><br>
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