RE: Playground files cleaned up

"ylva fernaeus" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:20:46 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.education.weblabs.requests
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I double clicked on the ".cty"-files (as new user both times) and they
loaded ok, although I couldnt find the anima gadgets-notebook anywhere. I
thought they where an important part of the playground notebook, or did I do
something wrong?

/ylva
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gordon Simpson [mailto:[email protected]]
  Sent: den 2 december 2003 10:58
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: RE: [WebLabs-requests] 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
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