Re: [Tuxmath-devel] =?iso-8859-1?q?Bug=3A_0=F7=3F=3D0?=

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Hi Tim,

On Monday 30 October 2006 09:21, Tim Holy wrote:

> I don't know exactly what you have in mind, but I very much agree that the
> options screen needs an overhaul.

TuxType 2 has a nice-looking menu system for selecting options, and the code 
supports the screens for a hierarchical menu without having to write each 
individual screen from scratch.  It would be nice for TuxMath and TuxType to 
have a more unified appearance. 

> Are you still thinking that there might be a
> separate GUI for setting the more "advanced" options, as well as for
> determining which options will be kid-settable?

Yves Combe has written a quick Qt4-based config program that can be built for 
either Windows or Linux.  The code is at his web site 
(http://www.ycombe.net/tuxmath).  It is sort of a "proof of concept" program 
at this point.  I perhaps could put the code into the tuxmath svn repo under 
something like "trunk-configurator".

> Our elementary school seems interested in tuxmath---my oldest daughter's
> teacher asked her about her rapid progress on her math facts, and she
> attributed it all to tuxmath. (Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks
> again to all developers!) I'll be demo-ing the program to her teacher soon,
> and can use the opportunity to collect feedback on anything that any of you
> would like to ask.

Great!
>
> Our elementary school is Mac OSX-based; does anyone know the status of the
> Mac build? I don't have a Mac to test it on myself...

I have been asking around for an old Mac to try to get a OSX build together, 
so far with no luck.  Thanks to Yves, I can cross-build Tuxmath and (almost) 
Tuxtype for Windows on my Debian system.  If anyone knows how to cross-build 
for MacOSX under Linux, I would be interested in learning more.

Someday, I would like to have everything set up and scripted  to build 
TuxMath, TuxType, and TuxPaint from source and spit out an ISO image 
with .debs, .rpms, Windows and Mac binaries, and (of course) all of the 
source, so I could just hand out an all-in-one Tux4Kids CD to whomever is 
interested.


-- 
David Bruce