RE: Playground files cleaned up

I logged in to TT with username Playground2001X (is this the correct way to
use these new files?) and it took a long time to load and finally got to the
helicopter which just froze...

-Gordon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Kahn [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [WebLabs-requests] Playground files cleaned up
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> On ftp://weblabs.eu.com/ToonTalk/Playground/ you'll find
> 
> Playground2001X.zip and PlaygroundBookX.zip which are the old Playground
> files in XML and all the active documentation removed. E.g. the speaking
> and translating tools. (I also fixed the score keeper in the Pong game.)
> Just unzip them to My Documents\ToonTalk.
> 
> I wrote a little program inside of ToonTalk that doesn't save a flipped
> picture on the back of another picture if it has any of these text pads
> on it (where \n means new line):
> 
> "I remove a\nspace, if I'm\nselected and\nyou type space",
> "I change\ntext to\nspeech",
> 
> "Speech\nmechanism",
> 
> "I speak\nthe text\nwhen you\npoint to\nme and press\nthe spacebar",
> 
> "I remove a\nspace, if I you\npoint to me\nand type a space"
> 
> (If I forgot one let me know.)
> 
> The ToonTalk files typically shrank by a factor of 4. They load much
> faster, using notebooks is faster (though still a bit slow the first
> time you flip to a page), and some programs run many times faster - e.g.
> the Space Behaviours game. And things built with Playground gadgets are
> lean and fast as well.
> 
> In the Playground City it found over 12,000 things not to save (each of
> which consisted of several robots, boxes, and pictures).
> 
> The interface to this ability to clean up old Playground files is a bit
> awkward so maybe the best plan is if people have files they want cleaned
> they send them to me.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -ken
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/


------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark
Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada.
http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511
http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/o1XolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[email protected]

 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/