[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-83

[Walter Bender]

I have a new refactored version of Turtle Art (a fructose module) that
has many new features for the Sucrose 0.87.4 unstable release. Still
some debugging to do, but generally it seems to be in good shape. The
tarball is available here:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/srv/www-sugarlabs/download/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-83.tar.gz

FYI:

New for v83

* added new user-interface features
 o support for multiple turtles
 o expandable blocks
 o collapsible stacks
 o runtime block highlighting
 o error highlighting
 o trash palette (with restore)
 o palette better integrated into Sugar toolbar
 o variable-length string blocks
 o editable string blocks
 o paste text from Sugar clipboard to string blocks
 o new boolean logic UI
 o showblock to compliment hideblock
 o fullscreen block
 o editible macros (used for presentation blocks)
 o labels on coordinate-grid overlays
 o more complete support in non-Sugar environments
 o new (and improved) sample code

* completed a major refactoring of the code
 o 90% smaller download bundle-size
 o faster first-time launch
 o greatly simplified i18n maintenance
 o easier to extend with new blocks and palettes

Still more testing to go before a general release--your feedback very
welcome as always.

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org