[Tux4kids-discuss] TuxPaint Ideas

[Bill Kendrick]

Hi Ioana, unfortunately, I think I'd be the person who would need to
mentor a GSOC student to work on Tux's Turtle, and I do not have the time
right now.  (Also, the code isn't in a particularly usable state.)

As for an Android port of Tux Paint, I would definitely want a _port_,
rather than a rewrite.  In other words, like with the ports to
Windows, BeOS, and Mac OS X (and, once we integrate it, iOS (iPad)),
I'd want the Android stuff to be part of the main codebase, and not
a separate program that would need to be maintained separately.

I'm not very familiar with Android development, so I don't know how
much that would involve, but I'm pretty certain that other libSDL-based
games have been ported to Android in that way, so it should be possible.
(Part of the problem is that Tux Paint depends on a _lot_ of various
SDL-based libraries, and other libraries (FreeType, SVG and PNG libs, etc.))

-bill!

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:22:15PM +0300, Ioana Culic wrote:
>    Hi,
>    Thank you for your response. I would like to contribute to Tux's Turtle,
>    especially if you think of writing it for mobile platforms too, as this is
>    the area I have the most experience in. 
>    Could I submit a proposal for the GSoC program regarding writing Tux's
>    Turtle for Android or iOS, or I should stick to the projects that are
>    already released? 
>    If the second choice is better, do you think that writing the Tux Paint
>    for Android is a good proposal? This would also involve implementing the
>    new features you mentioned.
>    Ioana
> 
>    On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>      Hi Ioana, thanks for the suggestion.  I have actually already started
>      a separate project that is a turtle-graphics based drawing system,
>      "Tux's Turtle."
> 
>      Unlike Logo, it's fully interactive, and not based on programming
>      individual commands; e.g., you press [D] to draw a line, [R] to rotate
>      N degrees, [M] to move forward without drawing, etc. -- as you do
>      this, the turtle draws and moves, and at the same time, 'behind the
>      scenes', the "program" is being recorded so that it can be edited,
>      played back, saved, etc..  (It is based on "Delta Drawing", an old
>      program
>      for early 1980s mirocomputers (Atari, Apple II, etc.))
> 
>      http://tuxsturtle.sourceforge.net/
> 
>      At this point, I don't think I'd like to add much in the way of
>      programming functionality to Tux Paint.  (I WOULD like to completely
>      change how plug-ins (Magic tools) are developed, and emphasize how older
>      children (say, high school) can create their own, to extend Tux Paint.)
> 
>      -bill!
>      On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 07:47:48PM +0300, Ioana Culic wrote:
>      >    Hello,
>      >    I am really interested in working with you within the Google Summer
>      of
>      >    Code programm.
>      >    I would like to submit a proposal regarding the TuxPaint
>      application. I
>      >    thought of extending it so that it could also help children learn
>      >    programming.
>      >    The idea would be to use the Logo programming language. We could
>      use Tux
>      >    as the character which should be moved on the screen. There sould
>      be two
>      >    play modes: one which allows you to draw whatever you like,and
>      another
>      >    which gives you some drawings you must reproduce.
>      >    I have thought of implementing the application for mobile
>      devices(Android
>      >    or iOS).
>      >    I would deeply appreciate if you could give me some feedback on my
>      idea.
>      >    Ioana Culic
> 
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