Re: Playground files cleaned up

Hi all.

Clicking on a CTY file can be confusing. The idea is that you are visiting that city with Tooly your friend. And in Tooly is your notebook - not the one the creator of the city had. While if you have PlaygroundBookX or Playground2001X as your user name then you ARE that user. If you have them as default user then initially you are an exact copy of that user but as you make changes you change your city and notebook - not those of PlaygroundBookX or Playground2001X. I think this is a useful and consistent story but it can be confusing - I've been surprised at times just as Ylva that the city doesn't have the notebook I expected.

Regarding the speed, it is slow but on my machine it is faster than before. And it should be fast except when you start or the first time you go to a notebook page.

Best,

-ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ylva fernaeus 
  To: ylva fernaeus ; Gordon Simpson ; [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:27 AM
  Subject: RE: [WebLabs-requests] Playground files cleaned up


  I finally found it (I think) and now it was extremely slow, possibly even slower than usual. This time I simply clicked on playground notebook on the desktop and logged in as a new user, but maybe this wasn't the right trick either?

  /ylva
    -----Original Message-----
    From: ylva fernaeus [mailto:[email protected]]
    Sent: den 2 december 2003 11:21
    To: Gordon Simpson; [email protected]
    Subject: RE: [WebLabs-requests] Playground files cleaned up


    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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