<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Gary C Martin <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Tomeu,<div class="im"> On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:51, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, not sure why Caroline's email didn't reached IAEP, wrong email address? On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:17, Caryl Bigenho<<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Caroline, I agree that content is something we desperately need for Sugar and the XO. But, I don't quite understand your proposal. Is Innovations For Learning offering us their software for free to adapt? </blockquote> They have offered at least some of it. More may come but I don't know about it yet. See: <a href="http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/progress-on-sugar-activities-with-swf.html" target="_blank">http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/progress-on-sugar-activities-with-swf.html</a> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> If so, what language is it in? </blockquote> Flash, developed specifically to run on Gnash. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Is the source code available? </blockquote> Yes, though in the .fla format that as far as I know can only be edited with the proprietary tools from Adobe. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Or, is this something you think our volunteer programmers should try to reverse-engineer and create for Sugar and the XO? </blockquote> Well, what I would like to see (but may not be what Caroline had in mind) is someone with access to the Adobe tools and some Flash knowledge to debug the EatBoom swf file and see why the game is not progressing to the next levels after the first three or so sums have been completed. </blockquote> </div> Just looking... :-( damn and blast... The .SWF played on my Mac also fails to progress levels. :-( double damn and blast... I have MX2004 (which is really Flash v7 if you ignore the annoying marketing naming fluff). The eatboom .FLA was last saved by someone using Flash v9 on Windows (needed a binary hex editor to find that out) and will not open here – so there's no way I can fix – pity this level of content could have been compatible with Flash v4! :-( triple damn and blast... I used a (recent) flash de-compiler to convert the .SWF into a v7 .FLA. I can access all the project/code/media, but the levels still didn't progress (though I could always get through the exit). There should be 3 levels (see attached images), and two game over (failure/success): </blockquote><div> Hmm, any chance its not supposed to progress automatically? Maybe it is waiting for something from the Classroom Management System before it allows you to go on to the next level? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Oh well, I did try. Anyone else have the latest Flash IDE want to give it a shot? I did notice (though this may be an issue related to version incompatibility) that the levels are often impossible to complete. Your 'slug' can only pick up a number for a short amount of time, so if the correct answer appears away from the door you can never get it to the exit in time... FWIW, the .swf should play directly in a web browser with the Flash plug-in to test, does this game actually play through the levels for anyone? I've tested without luck in Safari with the latest Adobe Flash plug-in and several other older stand alone Flash players. Here's the URL: <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/eatboom/repos/mainline/blobs/raw/5b9c64cb13145b0d90377a354d625afec14f1716/EatBoom.swf" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/eatboom/repos/mainline/blobs/raw/5b9c64cb13145b0d90377a354d625afec14f1716/EatBoom.swf</a> Regards, --Gary P.S. If any one's interested :-) this was the main reason I stopped developing with Flash (did it for about 5yrs professionally). Macromedia, and maybe now Adobe used to mess with developers every ~2 years by breaking their binary save formats, stopping the new IDE release from saving older versions, and usually triggering a re-write of a good portion of your source due to API breaks. It was great for one off short 'disposable' projects that only had to be maintained for ~6 months, but a real pain if you had to keep things working over a few years. </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax