Etoys

Introduction

Etoys is ...

an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system
a free software program that works on almost all personal computers

This activity is the Sugar version of Etoys, which is compatible with the versions running on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

What is new for users

After launching Etoys, its home screen is accessible using the "previous project" button. This is useful if you want to create a new project, but started Etoys by resuming another one. Note that as before, when stopping the activity, only the current project is stored in the Journal.

The display mode button is no longer in the tool bar. Its menu can be found in the world's halo menu. The toolbar can be toggled using the new top-right button. When loading old projects, the toolbar is toggled automatically.

(Experimental) Projects can be published to the Squeakland website from within Etoys. To do this, hold down the the "Keep" button (for publishing) or "Find" button (for accessing).

Getting Started

Tutorials: http://squeakland.org/tutorials/

What is new for developers

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

This version has been successfully tested in latest Sugar as well as on an XO running OS 767 (8.2). Compatible with all Sugar releases since at least 0.82.

Etoys-activity v. 107 depends on etoys-4.0.2318

Detailed changes

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4.0.2318 (17 Sep 2009)

* updated translation: ja
* nicer About flap
* put Grab Patch and Lasso tools back into Supplies
* fix project server URLs and default categories
* catch a network error
* fix error when creating new projects

4.0.2306 (14 Sep 2009)

do not modify po/templates/etoys.pot during jhbuild (SUGAR-1329)
prevent destructive overwriting of projects in Journal
fixes project publishing UI
use proper object chooser icon
change default window size to 800x600
rename home project from 'Etoys Activity' to 'Home'
remove non-functional undo button

4.0.2279 (8 Sep 2009)

support publishing to squeakland gallery
make look-like only available for SketchMorphs to fix various isssues
fix saving issues under Sugar (thanks dgd)
fix Save button balloon help under Sugar
show crosshair feedback during patch-grabbing
no longer write out the gif thumbnail when saving a project
send utf-8 to SuperSwikiServer
adjust toolbar under Sugar (show Next button, hide Fullscreen button)
add display-mode menu to the world's halo
fix ctrl/alt shortcuts under Linux

4.0.2258 (28 Aug 2009):

Windows VM updated to 3.11.4
Updated translations: de, el, en, fr, it, ja, sv
Added translations: ar, bg, bn, ko, mn, mr, ne, nl, ps, ro, ru, te, ur, vi, zh_TW
make launcher screen (clouds) accessible via back button
fix viewer performance bug (thanks to Ricardo Moran for reporting)
Kedama fixes
fix refresh bug when objects are rejected and slide back to their original position
initial screen has Japanese translation

4.0.2253 (21 Aug 2009):

Mac VM updated to 4.2.1b1: allows to read files from image directory even when sandboxed
Mac VM got a QuickLook generator: makes Finder show projects as their embedded thumbnails
fixed Welcome and DemonCastle project scaling issues
fixed jagged cursor on Mac
made piano keyboard bigger
prevent duplicate viewers

4.0.2247 (18 Aug 2009):

updated translations: el
Linux: fall back to OSS when pulseaudio is detected
add button to toggle toolbar
hide toolbar when loading old projects
place viewer and collapsed objects below toolbar
improved grab-patch tool and polygons
store language tag and thumbnail in project
wording improvements in several menus and help balloons

4.0.2229 (7 Jul 2009)

fix demo project resolutions
Sugar: add setup.py to please packagers
avoid black screen flashing when switching projects
set window title to project name
split over-long "geometry" category
better keyboard event handling in scripts
various fixes

4.0.2212 (1 Apr 2009)

keep temp names in textual scripts
make it less easy to rip a BookMorph's nav-bar out of the book
Linux: fix GStreamer playback (for squeak-vm with GStreamer-Plugin JMM.16)

Credits

Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima, Bert Freudenberg, Korakurider, Karl Ramberg, Ricardo Moran, Masashi Umezawa, John Maloney

0.86/Etoys

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