Hi Daniel,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Cartron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@cartron.org">daniel@cartron.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello everybody,<br>
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I baught an EEEPC 701 to my daughter for xmas and as tuxtyping is installed i<br>
try to create some french lessons for her. But i have some problems to do<br>
this.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I think the EEE has quite an old build of Tux Typing. We have worked on a lot of these things since then. Tux Typing has quite a few areas that are incomplete or outdated - some have been fixed, some remain.<br>
<br>I'd really suggest getting tuxtype 1.7.0 from <a href="http://www.tux4kids.com">http://www.tux4kids.com</a> (i.e., <a href="http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org">http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org</a>). It is installable with "./configure; make; sudo make install", once you get some libs and build tools. You should be able to install those things with apt on any Debian-based system.<br>
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First the letters with accents don't show correctly. I think it is some utf8<br>
problem, so do i have to convert my files to another format, thougt the<br>
machine seems to use utf8 ?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>About a year and a half ago, we did a major overhaul of Tux Typing to support Unicode so non-Western chars could be displayed, and at that time converted all the files to utf8.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Then the lessons files azre displayed a very strange way on screen, they are<br>
not sorted by name or date, and it make it difficult to select the good<br>
lesson... And their name is written too small, it is difficult to read them.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>That is still not really fixed - on the agenda.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Otherwise i think it is not good to have the main background for lessons,<br>
because i want to put there a background with the keyboard drawn with colors,<br>
one for each finger. </blockquote><div><br>The new build has an improved on-screen hints keyboard. It was one of last summer's Google Summer of Code student projects. I hadn't thought of color highlighting, but that is a good idea.<br>
</div></div><br>Anyway, if you want to modify tuxtype, it would be best to start with the latest release. Also, if you want to contribute your changes back, it will work a lot better if you work from the subversion repository (see link on tux4kids page mentioned above) rather than just a *tar.gz snapshot release.<br>
<br>Thanks, and best regards,<br><br>David Bruce<br>