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~~===Helpful hints===~~

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~~====Copying and Pasting====~~

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Did you know that you can copy/paste stacks to/from the clipboard? You type Ctrl-C to copy whatever stack is under the cursor to the clipboard. Ctrl-V will paste from the clipboard onto whatever TA project you have open. Try pasting this code into your Turtle Art project.

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:[[0, "clean", 258, 217, [12, 1]], [1, "repeat", 258, 251, [0, 2, 3, null]], [2, ["number", 36], 309, 251, [1, null]], [3, "repeat", 323, 311, [1, 4, 5, 9]], [4, ["number", 4], 374, 311, [3, null]], [5, "forward", 388, 371, [3, 6, 7]], [6, ["number", 300], 459, 371, [5, null]], [7, "right", 388, 413, [5, 8, null]], [8, ["number", 90], 446, 413, [7, null]], [9, ["vspace", 20], 323, 389, [3, 10]], [10, "right", 323, 463, [9, 11, null]], [11, ["number", 10], 381, 463, [10, null]], [12, "start", 258, 175, [null, 0]], [-1, ["turtle", 1], 0, 0, 0.0, 0, 50, 5]]

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~~You can also paste text from the clipboard into text blocks.~~

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Note: You can duplicate individual blocks with copy and paste, when duplicating a text block, deselect the text block after copying if you want to duplicate the block rather than duplicating the text within the block.

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~~====Speed====~~

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~~Turtle Art has three 'run' buttons:~~

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* The 'rabbit' button will run your program at full screen. '''Note''': It will highlight blocks during execution, so your program will run much faster if you hide blocks.

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* The 'turtle' button will run your program with a slight delay between blocks. Block are highlighted as they are executed and block labels are updated with the current block values.

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* The 'debug' button will run your program with a longer delay between blocks. Block are highlighted as they are executed and block labels are updated with the current block values.

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~~====Running Turtle Art outsde of Sugar====~~

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~~[[Image:TAGnome.png|300px]]~~

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~~Turtle Art can be run in the GNOME desktop outside of Sugar.~~

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~~PC HARDWARE:~~

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* Download [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027 Turtle Art] (as a *.xo archive)

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* Extract the TurtleArt.activity directory from the archive, eg drag it to the desktop

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* Open directory TurtleArt.activity

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* Run turtleart.py (run in terminal is better, you can see error messages there)

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~~OLPC XO HARDWARE~~

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* The XO1.5 and later software builds for the XO1.0 allow switching between Gnome and Sugar desktops. The following assumes that Turtle Art is already installed in Sugar.

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* Switch to the Gnome desktop

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* open olpc's home on the desktop

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* open Activities

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* on later software builds, Activities is both hidden and locked, if so, check show hidden files to unhide, in terminal chmod 777 Activities to unlock

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* open TurtleArt.activity

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* run turtleart.py (run in terminal is better, you can see error messages there)

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