[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] Status of Tuxmath and Tux Typing releases

[B. Luchen]

Hey David,

I'm taking a look at my Windows setup, and it seems I haven't touched
it since before Jesus brought it SDL_gfx! I've just had some fun
hacking that together from source, and everything looks good now. I've
confirmed the native build has this segfault as well, and 10% of the
time, only in fullscreen, does seem to be the case. I've got some time
tonight to look into this, so I'll do that :)

Brendan

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been hoping to get new releases of tuxmath and tuxtype out "real soon
> now", and it hasn't happened yet because of my being swamped at work, but
> also with some issues that need to be fixed in the programs.  These may not
> be severe enough to stop the release, but I would hope we get them fixed
> soon.  These are based on current svn.
>
> Tuxmath:
> 1.  Factoroids segfaults at the start of the activity about 10% of the time
> when tested fullscreen on Windows.  I haven't seen this on Linux or in
> windowed mode, but I haven't tested these a large number of times.  The
> output available on Windows (stderr.txt and stdout.txt) isn't very
> informative, but it seems it may occur when the sprites (rocks) are being
> drawn.  Maybe some of the random initial positions result in memory
> locations being accessed outside of what is allowed.
>
> Tuxtype:
> 1.  "Lessons" seems to be broken, somehow going into the "Practice" phrase
> typing activity after loading the selected script.  Unfortunately, I have
> only a vague grasp of our home-brewed interpreter (scripting.c) for the
> xml-based lessons, as it pre-dates my involvement in the project.  Unless
> someone else can debug and support this activity, we may need to inactivate
> it for the time being.  I would hate to do so, because the Indic team has
> contributed a lot of very nice lessons files for the Indic language themes.
> 2.  Changes in locale are not reflected in the menus immediately.
> 3.  My Windows crossbuild of tuxtype now fails, because configure.ac expects
> libintl to be available externally, and my crossbuild environment doesn't
> have it (because tuxmath has its own in-tree intl directory).  I can likely
> add libintl to the build environment, but I would rather have tuxtype and
> tuxmath be the same in this regard.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.  I do not expect to have
> much time at all for tux4kids for at least the next few days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David Bruce
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