[Tux4kids-discuss] TuxPaint Ideas

[Ioana Culic]

I understand what you want.

I suggested rewriting the application because you said that you would like
to use plug-in's. From my point of view, the easiest way of doing this is
by using Content Providers and Activities stored in a different apk. With
the NDK, which is the toolkit used for writing SDL-based applications, it
might be more difficult.

NDK also implies compiling the application differently for each device
architecture, which can be uncomfortable.

You also wrote about these flaws of the NDK on the web-site. There says
that a rewriting of the application, from scratch is more welcome than one
which is ported.

Ioana



On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> 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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> >      -bill!
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