[Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

[David Farning]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Did you mean something like:
> SoaS text is way too small when displayed on an XO-1?

Yes, something like that with the very useful information you provided above.

david

> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farning" <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?
>
>
>> Art,
>>
>> Would you mind taking a look at the bug tracker[1] and adding this
>> issue as new bug if it is not already there.
>>
>> dev.sugarlabs.org
>>
>> david
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Second of two responses:
>>>
>>> Attached is my activity, OurMusic-1.xo.
>>>
>>> As it is, it gives a partial display on SoaS of the reduced screen layout
>>> (upper-left corner). The basic python script that illustrates my (very)
>>> basic coding is ourmusic.py. (Notice my dependence on text!)
>>>
>>> It, of course, doesn't actually "work" because of the problem of Csound
>>> with
>>> python.
>>>
>>> If you'd like to see it running as intended, install it on the XO - but
>>> first enable three lines in csndsugui.py:
>>> take out the leading #'s in these three spots:
>>> in the "install csnd" toward the beginning;
>>> in the two lines toward the end of the file.
>>>
>>> In terms of my "coding style", except for the opening header text, it's
>>> basically boxes packed within boxes all the way through.
>>>
>>> FWIW, if the text remains the size it is (with SoaS on the XO), I'd guess
>>> this activity just wouldn't work in this context.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any and all suggestions/comments - of course, *especially*
>>> how best to deal with screen reposition (if not default type size).
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>>> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
>>> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:47 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 21:13, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I finally managed to see a mockup of my XO Activity on one of my SoaS
>>>>> setups
>>>>> (large monitor).
>>>>>
>>>>> As I feared, everything displayed in the upper left corner of the
>>>>> screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know this issue has been frequently discussed here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone point me to the simplest python code for placing an XO
>>>>> screen-full square in the middle of any monitor display? No resizing
>>>>> (at
>>>>> least, not necessarily), just placement in mid-screen (vertically and
>>>>> horizontally).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got some general ideas, but am not a coder - and my knowledge of
>>>>> PyGTK
>>>>> is skin-deep.
>>>>
>>>> If I understood correctly what you are asking, it will depend on how
>>>> you are doing your drawing. Maybe you have the code online somewhere
>>>> where we can see it?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tomeu
>>>>
>>>>> Art Hunkins
>>>>>
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