[Sugar-devel] [Physics] egg libraries sorted -- Journal JSON saving addition, then release?

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Brian,

On 10 Aug 2009, at 04:31, Brian Jordan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I manually included pkg_resources.py from setuptools so that pythons <
> 2.6.x would still be supported using the .egg libraries.  Then
> released and included new Elements (0.13) which is Asaf's JSON
> changes.

Fab thanks :-)

> Gary or others -- can you test that the .egg-fest I committed works on
> SoaS (python 2.6?) and/or on XO (python 2.5)?

Yep, will do!

> Asaf -- anything left for the physics activity portion of JSON saving?

Asaf, FWIW for v3, I'll also be adding single click default sized  
objects for the shape tools as per (hopefully start working on that  
later tonight):

	http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1048

...And we (I) should add a MIME type for the Physics Journal entries,  
that way we can use the Journal "Send to: <friend>" (currently the  
friend gets a 'text' file that they can poke about with in Write but  
can't get Physics to resume). Will add a ticket for that later.

> Still need to do some testing/playing, but the roll tool seems  
> great! :)

Yes, need to do more testing/playing here also :-)

Regards,
--Gary

P.S. Certainly not for this cycle, but just wanted to plant this  
potential future feature... For the motor/force type tools, what if we  
could allow attaching a keyboard shortcut (key down = on, key up =  
off) in a future secondary tool palette... This way you could actually  
build interactive actions into Physics models (e.g pinball, trajectory/ 
catapult set-ups, cranes with grabbers, robots etc).