Re: Playground files cleaned up

Hi.

The icons just run StartTT with appropriate command line options. E.g. 

"C:\Program Files\Animated Programs\ToonTalk\StartTT.exe" -free_play 1  -time_travel_enabled 0 -default_user Playground2001X

ToonTalk just treats Playground2001X as an ordinary user. The zip file just contains the files for that user.

I wonder if there are other cases in Playground where it expected all arithmetic to be limited to integers.

Best,

-ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gordon Simpson 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:52 AM
  Subject: RE: [WebLabs-requests] Playground files cleaned up


  You're right, I had time travel on which was a bit dopey!  I tried again with time travel off, it still took a long time to load but was OK once I got in. What should the desktop icon point to (I have removed it)? How does TT know to use these new versions of the files, is this part of the 3.31 code?



  By the way, one of the numbers games (I forget the name, on the right in the numbers house) might be broken because the target score has decimal numbers, which I suppose is part of the new representation of numbers.



  -Gordon



  -----Original Message-----
  From: Ken Kahn [mailto:[email protected]] 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:23 AM
  To: [email protected]; Gordon Simpson
  Subject: Re: [WebLabs-requests] Playground files cleaned up



  Hi.



  The "correct" way is to use the desktop icon called Playground City. This does 2 things:



  1. Makes Playground2001X the default user so you can log on with a user name and save the city, etc without clobbering the original.



  2. It turns off time travel by default.



  My guess is that ToonTalk didn't freeze but that you had time travel on and that had you waited long enough you would have gotten 5 seconds before it froze again. Let me know if this fixes things.



  Best,



  -ken



    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Gordon Simpson 

    To: [email protected] 

    Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:57 AM

    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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