[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath and TuxType BeOS ports

[Schrijvers Luc]

On wo, 2009-02-04 at 07:00 -0500, David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Luc,
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Schrijvers Luc <Begasus at skynet.be> wrote:
> > Great thanks!!
> >
> > I can confirm that with the latest changes I've got both tuxmath and
> > tuxtype working again on ZETA, Haiku has been a problem for a while now,
> > there is an open ticket about sdl apps not being able to load graphic
> > files etc ... http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2667
> >
> > The locale themes files are still a problem for tuxtype though, I've
> > pasted the output (partial) from tuxtype -d at
> > http://zeta-games.pastebin.com/m51481010
> >
> > They probably suffer from the same as not being able to load the data
> > files? Looking at the error msg tuxtype seems to be looking for the
> > image files in the themes folder, maybe they need to be linked to the
> > main image folder?
> 
> It looks like it is generating spurious error messages.  For example,
> the nederlands theme in the source tree doesn't have an images subdir.
> 
> Tuxtype has a gettext-like scheme to allow themes to provide
> substitute data files (images, sounds, words) in place of the
> "default" files in the main English theme.  The program first looks
> for a file in the path for the theme (e.g.
> $prefix/share/tuxtype/themes/nederlands/images/tux0.png), and if it
> doesn't find it it trys to load the counterpart from the default path
> (e.g. $prefix/share/tuxtype/images/tux0.png).  It looks like it is
> printing an error everytime it "falls back" to the default image.
> This can be cleaned up for the next version.
> 
> Apart from the messages, do the themes seem to work correctly (are the
> correct word files being used)?  You can also look at some of the
> themes to see if they use their theme-specific image files
> appropriately.  For example, the Jamaican theme uses a humorous image
> of Tux wearing a colorful Jamaican hat.
> 

The keyboard file doesn't seem to get loaded (atleast not for the main
menu here - the exercises are translated though - in linux that is doing
ok)
The Jamaican theme does show tux with the jamaican hat here so it is
working there.

> Cheers,
> 
> David