Hej GNOME.Weekly Report 8 : GSOC

[srishti sethi <srishakatux gmail com>]

Originally from my blog : http://srishtisethi.blogspot.com/

Hej GNOME.Weekly Report 8 : GSOC

17th July 2011 :  During the eighth week of gsoc I made the following commits :-

• BrailleMap class :Added a separate braille map class for producing the braille chart.It imports Braille Char class and all other activities import both of them.Also introduced a seperate constant to let all the letters appear in black for clarity in the chart.Link to this commit
• Introduced callouts, lotto master to Braille Lotto Activity:- I have added two buttons for each player "I don't have this number".On clicking these buttons lotto master speaks out in form of callouts and give some clue to kids.
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• Removed timer.Instead added a generate number button:My mentor Bruno Coudoin had finest views on removing the timer.I really appreciate his idea to remove the animated timer and instead add a clickable button to generate next number.His views """It goes too fast, its confused we don't know what to do, the number changes by the time we find the answer, just too annoying and useless. It is very hard to tune the timer because you don't know enough on the children playing your game at runtime """
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• FIXED Ticket focus issue : Fixed a serious issue with focus related with ticket box,as the braille tile generated using BrailleChar instance is devoid of focus attribute.Link to this commit
  

  
  #### This function has been added specially for BrailleLotto Activity
  #### to fix the focus issue on ticket numbers
  def ticket_focus(self, rectangle, number_cross_function, counter):
       for index in range(6):
  
            gcompris.utils.item_focus_init(self.cell_array[index], rectangle)
            self.cell_array[index].connect("button_press_event", 
             number_cross_function, counter)
  



• Changed the layout after removing lotto board :Link to this commit
  I worked on my next activity Braille Objects , though would write a report about it after getting feedbacks from my mentor.
  Yay ! feels simply awesome to pass the midterm evaluation.May the fun continues:-)
  
• Screenshot
  

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Thanks & Regards
Srishti Sethi
http://srishtisethi.blogspot.com/