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== Introduction ==

== Introduction ==

Turtle Art is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on Scratch-like snap-together visual programming elements.

Turtle Art is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on Scratch-like snap-together visual programming elements.

== What is new for users ==

== What is new for users ==

Turtle Art underwent a major overhaul since 0.82. From the user-interface perspective, there is more extensive use of the Sugar Toolbar. Functionally, there are a number of new blocks, including named variables (blocks) and subroutines (stacks), a FILO for passing arguments to subroutines and doing recursion, an in-line user-programmable brick for extending the math library, and support for text, image, audio, and video primitives.

Turtle Art underwent a major overhaul since 0.82. From the user-interface perspective, there is more extensive use of the Sugar Toolbar. Functionally, there are a number of new blocks, including named variables (blocks) and subroutines (stacks), a FILO for passing arguments to subroutines and doing recursion, an in-line user-programmable brick for extending the math library, and support for text, image, audio, and video primitives.

You can export your Turtle Art creations to [#Exporting to Berkeley Logo|Berkeley Logo]].

You can export your Turtle Art creations to [[Activities/Turtle Art{{bug|}}Exporting to Berkeley Logo|Berkeley Logo]].

=== Portfolio ===

=== Portfolio ===

Turtle Art also has an export-to-HTML function so that presentations can be viewed outside of the Sugar environment.

Turtle Art also has an export-to-HTML function so that presentations can be viewed outside of the Sugar environment.

More Info: [[Activities/TurtleArt]]

More Info: [[Activities/Turtle Art]]

== What is new for developers ==

== What is new for developers ==

Changes to Turtle Art since 0.82

Changes to Turtle Art since 0.82

Turtle Art was not part of Fructose 0.82; that it has reached a level

Turtle Art was not part of Fructose 0.82; that it has reached a level of maturity and stability to be included as part of the standard library of Sugar Activities is perhaps the most significant change.

of maturity and stability to be included as part of the standard

library of Sugar Activities is perhaps the most significant change.

* Rebase of Turtle Art graphics from GIF to SVG

* Rebase of Turtle Art graphics from GIF to SVG

* Redesign of arithmetic operators

* Redesign of arithmetic operators

* Programmable block for adding user-defined math and time operators

* Programmable block for adding user-defined math and time operators

* Presentation templates to enable the Turtle to make programmable

* Presentation templates to enable the Turtle to make programmable slide shows from Journal entries

slideshows from Journal entries

* FILO for passing arguments to subroutines

* FILO for passing arguments to subroutines

* Support for exporting project to Berkeley Logo

* Support for exporting project to Berkeley Logo

* Support for export of presentations to HTML

* Support for export of presentations to HTML

* New documentation page (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt)

* New documentation page ([[Activities/Turtle Art]])

* Minor bug fixes as documented in dev.sugarlabs.org (#389; #343;

* Minor bug fixes as documented on [https://bugs.sugarlabs.org bugs.sugarlabs.org] ({{bug|389}}; {{bug|343}}; {{bug|299}}; {{bug|240}}; {{bug|194}}; {{bug|116}}; {{bug|102}})

#299; #240; #194; #116; #102)

* Minor bug fixes as documented on dev.laptop.org ([https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9027 #9027], [https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8589 #8589], [https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8569 #8569])

* Minor bug fixes as documented in dev.laptop.org (#9027, #8589, #8569)

* Keyboard shortcuts added for major toolbar actions

* Keyboard shortcuts added for major toolbar actions

While many bugs were fixed, there are still a few known problems that

While many bugs were fixed, there are still a few known problems that

we hope to address by the time next release:

we hope to address by the time next release:

* Text input should wrap instead of overrun the input box (#489)

* Text input should wrap instead of overrun the input box ({{bug|489}})

* Text input should be editable (#489)

* Text input should be editable ({{bug|489}})

* Text input should support all Unicode characters (input in some

* Text input should support all Unicode characters (input in some languages--el, zh--currently disabled) ({{bug|489}})

languages--el, zh--currently disabled) (#489)

* Repeated video playback unreliable ({{bug|490}})

* Repeated video playback unreliable (#490)

* Share won't synchronize if sharer leaves session ({{bug|491}})

* Share won't synchronize if sharer leaves session (#491)

* Sensor input is disabled because of {{bug|155}}

* Sensor input is disabled because of #155

* User-definable brick disabled because of {{bug|451}}

* User-definable brick disabled because of #451

== Credits ==

== Credits ==

Brian Silverman, Arjun Sarwl, Luis Michelena, Aleksey Lim, Walter Bender

Brian Silverman, Arjun Sarwl, Luis Michelena, Aleksey Lim, Walter Bender