[sugar] Question about write from Niue -OLPC training

Thu Aug 7 07:16:53 EDT 2008

Hi Guys,

Great question! So basic but so relevant!

I don't think its just the image size, but I'm open to suggestions.

I found one way using build 703 to get an image off the web and in to write.

Open Browse and go to the page you want to get the image from. Then hold 
down the shift key and click the mouse button and hold it down. Then 
drag the image to the frame and drop it there.

Now you should have a clipboard image stye icon on the frame. Mouse over 
it and choose add to the journal. Then open write, choose the image tab 
and click the insert image option.

I don't know if that is meant to be supported (e.g. the drag and drop is 
not reliable in many cases) but it worked for me on 703.

In my experience, there are several areas of instability you want to be 
aware of in the 656 and possibly 703 releases. The clipboard can get 
confused about what type of file it has and which one is the paste 
target. So I had to remove everything else from the clipboard before it 
decided that the image was the paste target. Even so it I couldn't paste 
it with control-v in to Write.

When the journal is big it sometimes doesn't open. I think that is more 
relevant to 656 than 703 but its something to be aware of. That may 
block you from getting something off the journal in to write with the 
file chooser.

Its a work around, but seemed to work for me :-)

For the list, I don't know what version of Write or Browse I have on 
this XO. How do I determine that?

HTHs.

Try getting an image and text from Write on to a web page sometime too....

Thanks,

Greg S

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:07:16 -0500
From: Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [sugar] Question about write from Niue -OLPC training
To: martines at unimelb.edu.au
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Martin Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au> writes:

>           Think that write might not allow the image to be imported if
> it is too big. Can you tell me how large the images are? What are their
> dimensions in pixels?

We've had had the same issue in Ha?ti, with both 656 and 703 builds, and
with images as taken with the Record activity (I don't know ths size and
dimensions.)

Is this fixed in newer (stable) builds?

-- 
Bastien

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:22:59 +1000
From: Martin Sevior <martines at unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [sugar] Question about write from Niue -OLPC training
To: grisel carreira <grisel.carreira at gmail.com>
Cc: sugar at lists.laptop.org
Message-ID: <1218075779.3223.24.camel at seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:45 +1000, grisel carreira wrote:
> Hi Gary, 
> 
> The versions I am using are:
> - Sugar v.1.703
> - WikiBrowse v.9, and 
> - Write v.55.
> 
> Thanks
> Grisel
> 

Hi Grisel,
          There is a good chance this is fixed in the current joyride
8.20 builds. Clearly we need to get these out to you.

A work around until then would be to reduce the size of the images or to
only select images that are 640x480 or smaller. I'm almost certain these
will work as this is the size of images made with the camera.

Cheers

Martin

> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi Grisel,
>         
>         
>         On 6 Aug 2008, at 23:42, grisel carreira wrote:
>         
>                 Hi there,
>                 Please let me know if I should direct the questions to
>                 someone else since I
>                 haven't received any response. (see below)
>                 Cheers,
>                 Grisel
>         
>         
>         Sorry, this probably doesn't help... I'm running a very new
>         development build (joyride-2258) and it seems to be running as
>         hoped.
>         
>         Using Browse-94, visiting Google images, right clicking and
>         selecting copy on several images into the clipboard, then
>         starting a new Write-56 activity and dragging in the images
>         with the mouse one by one (see attached screen shot for the
>         not so masterpiece result).
>         
>         Can you say what version of the Sugar operating system you are
>         using? Also Browse version and Write version would be good.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>                 Hi there,
>                 I am doing some volunteer work for the OLPC in Niue
>                 island.
>                 One basic activity we set up on the teacher training
>                 was to get pictures
>                 from Google images, save them to the journal and
>                 upload them into Write by
>                 using the Image tab, insert facility but it didnt
>                 work. We tried various
>                 ways:
>                 - copy the image and paste it in the 'write' document
>                 - upload to clipboard image and insert it into write
>                 - saving the image from goolge with a .jpg extension -
>                 although it will save
>                 it as a picture in the journal it will still not
>                 insert it in write -well,
>                 it will insert it but it can not be viewed.
>                 - combination of the above.
>                 Could you please send us details of how to deal with
>                 this basic activity of
>                 having people inserting images into 'write' which are
>                 not coming from
>                 pictures being taken from the OLPC.
>                 It will be great if you can get us an answer by
>                 tomorrow which is our last
>                 day of training.
>                 Thanks heaps,
>                 Grisel
>         
>         --Gary
> 
> 
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