thanks Gary<div><br></div><div>the default single click shape does not work for the box but does work for circle and triangle</div><div><br></div><div>I think there needs to be clear install instructions for those doing this for the first time. I wasn't sure what to do. I found some instructions here</div> <div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Installing_one_activity">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Installing_one_activity</a></div><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Installing_one_activity"></a>which were sufficient for me to work it out but would not be adequate for many of my students</div> <div><br></div><div>I will give them a copy of physics-3.xo with some instructions like this, making it as easy as possible so we can spend more of our limited time exploring software rather than confusion arising over a routine installation task</div> <div><br></div><div>- hover over and erase existing physics</div><div>- get physics-3.xo (1.4MB) off L drive onto your USB</div><div>- insert your USB and double click on your USB icon</div><div>- your USB contents should appear in the Journal, including the physics program</div> <div>- click on the arrow on the right hand side of page for the physics program</div><div>- click on start button</div><div>- physics will open and be installed on the SoaS stick</div><div><br></div><div>To confirm note the new features:</div> <div>- hand for grab</div><div>- irregular polygon replaces hexagon icon</div><div>- you can now save your work</div><div>and others</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="'helvetica neue'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br> </span></font></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Just thought I'd forward this over to IAEP.<br> <br> (If you are running an older build of SoaS, you'll need to erase the existing Physics Activity before trying to upgrade. The older SoaS shipped with Activities installed in a non-standard place, with administrator permissions, preventing the normal Sugar activity upgrade process. You'll likely need to drop into Terminal, find and remove the Physics.activity directory from there. Current SoaS builds have this issue resolved).<br> <br> Regards,<br> --Gary<br> <br> Begin forwarded message:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> From: Sugar Labs Activities <<a href="mailto:activities@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities@sugarlabs.org</a>><br> Date: 27 August 2009 18:41:21 BST<br> To: <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Physics-3<br> Reply-To: <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <br> Activity Homepage:<br> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4193" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4193</a><br> <br> Sugar Platform:<br> from 0.82 to 0.86<br> <br> Download Now:<br> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29221" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29221</a><br> <br> Release notes:<br> * Journal state saving now supported!<br> * MIME type support added so Physics Journal entries can be sent to others (application/x-physics-activity)<br> * Fixed Activity title text input so you can name your work correctly (olpcgames glitch)<br> * New Grab toolbar icon (hand)<br> * New Polygon toolbar icon (irregular polygon shape)<br> * Cleaned up toolbar order<br> * Single click behaviour so that Circle, Triangle, and Box tool add default sized shapes<br> * Single click behaviour for all tools, so that a subsequent single click creates a clone of the last shape made with that tool.<br> * Erase tool now erases (one by one) pins/joints/motors from a shape, before finally removing the shape itself.<br> * Using +key for all keyboard shortcuts (was causing PyGame input focus issues when typing a title)<br> * Using the Sugar standard arrow cursor for the PyGame canvas (well, a fake one)<br> * Cleaned up the Activity icon<br> * Upgraded to new version of Elements 0.13<br> * Upgraded to new version of Box2D<br> * Picked up Pootle (July 3rd) translations<br> <br> Many thanks to Asaf Paris Mandoki, and Brian Jordan for all their hard work!<br> <br> Reviewer comments:<br> Trusted activity<br> <br> Sugar Labs Activities<br> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </blockquote> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br> </div>