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This probably IS the biggest.

Anywho, What d'ya guys at Panther think about doing daily development snapshots?

Like, every day, some automation program(btw, you guys should get a sourceforge page maybe?) updates the Dev snapshot, which happens every day. It wouldn't be guaranteed to be stable, cause It's a daily snapshot, but it's a common thing among open source projects these days.

Yay for Panther, I just made and perfected a project that scans 33 pixels 19 times and records the data in a list. It then scans lists (made by itself) to find what the thing scanned matches, with alot of prescision. You can also tell it how many shades of colour to be out. YAY!!

Im thinking next to make a game controled by real word movement!

Anyone else have a problem that when they save then open a project it brings up errors?

Yay made a stick man raise its hand when the player puts their hands on sensors. If its just on the right it raises its right and if just on the left sensor it raises the left, but if on both it raises both!

Hello people. A little snapshot update for you.

I'm working on a project that accesses an online store of shared custom blocks. The project will render the blocks on the screen as well as show the author of the block, and lets you load that block directly into your Panther project if you like.

Here's an example:

you really want a block that opens your default browser with a given URL, but you don't know enough smalltalk to create it yourself.

you open the project, set the search catagories to files, or to stacks and then click go.

The project sifts through the online block store (saved as text) and renders block that match your search.

it renders them on the screen, including their colour and you can see if the block you need has been shared. If it has not, you can follow a link to our suggestion page to suggest the block, and community friendly users can code the block if they want to so that it appears in the collection next time you look.

otherwise, you click download, and the project happily makes that custom block up into your project.
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sound good? I think it will be a very neat sharing system for Panther. There are still some hurdles to overcome, and your input would be appreciated. Here are a few things I can think of that stand as a problem.

1) At the moment, new custom blocks would have to be emailed to me. this is time consuming for the sharer and myself. This could be fixed using a block that loads the block directly to the online store via a php script.

2) with a php script, no one checks the block to make sure it's not going to do anything annoying to your computer. there is also nothing stopping people uploading hundreds of the same block. In this case, the uploading method might need a registered username and email to upload, ( 2b) emails would have to be stored online which wouldn't be very safe) as well as perhapse a time limit between uploads and something that only uploads the block if an identical block does not yet exist.

thoughts?

sparks wrote:

( 2b) emails would have to be stored online which wouldn't be very safe)

Just encrypt them.  You're not actually going to send email to the person, so you don't ever have to decrypt them, just encrypt the one the user types in, and search for its encrypted form.

PS I'm enjoying a vivid mental picture of people sending $4.95 by Paypal for a Panther block that computes random lottery numbers.  A free block would provide directions to the nearest McDonald's, etc. 

fg123 wrote:

BTW, next version should be Leopard.

You cheetah. Lol

I should think that blocks shared would be free, I refer to it as a store just because it stores the blocks. (Store is only a shop in america)

I'm glad people are supporting the idea    if you want to contribute a custom block, please visit this page

Thank you for your advice and insights John.

We already follow many of the practices you outlined above, nXIII is our changes coordinator and is in charge of updating the image. The image itself is stored in a dropbox that networks a folder to each of our computers, allowing us to talk and share code and files instantly. It has seriously sped up production, believe me.

I'm not really sure what to say about the contribution section... I'll let someone else think of a witty response and I look forward to hearing from Mr Kay as I'm sure he will provide us with more excellent suggestions.

Thank you and him for developing squeak, my life would probably have taken quite a different turn if it had not existed.

Sparks

I know it was a joke, I don't know what the appstore advert sounds like, but it is similar, and you probably COULD make a block that finds your nearest macdonalds too if you entered your location into the block...

bright yellow and everything 

we could make that a competition! (though not mac donalds, they get enough promotion as it is and it really is not at all healthy. Just a nearest pub or game store /:?

Last edited by sparks (2010-05-27 12:33:32)

nice

sparks wrote:

Just a nearest pub

I think my nearest pub is probably in Dover or someplace like that, more or less independent of my location.