مرحبا GNOME. Weekly Report 10 : GSOC

[srishti sethi <srishakatux gmail com>]

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

مرحبا GNOME. Weekly Report 10 : GSOC

1st August 2011 : During the tenth week of Google Summer of Code, I worked on the following :-

• Translatable Strings in the code : For all the translatable strings in the code I added a underscore before them like this : title = _("Hello! GNOME").Also modified the string containing token as follows :-
  
  #Translators : Do not translate the token {letter}
  text=_("Click on the dots in braille cell area to produce letter {letter}").format(letter = self.random_letter),
  
  
• Internationalization Issue with Braille Objects Activity : The activity Braille Objects I have developed last week had serious i18n issues because it is difficult to generate a Braille character for languages like Serbian, Hindi, Finnish, Spanish and others that uses different symbols other than 26 English alphabets.Braille code is language specific :-
  http://www.afb.org/braillebug/foreign_language_braille.asp
  So I switched over to animated braille activity to add braille interactive writing exercise to my project.
  
  
• Animated Fun Braille Activity : This activity comprises of an animated tux plane that pulls random letters along with it and drops these letters that vertically traverses through the screen.Kids need to identify the braille code for corresponding letters in the braille tile given within the time interval of traversal of letters.I have used Goocanvas Animation API for this activity and its fun to use it.
  

  
  PyGoocanvas Animation API 
  goocanvasItem.animate(double x,
      double y,
      double scale,
      double degrees,
  
      bool   absolute,
      int    duration,
      int    step_time,
      AnimateType   animate_type 
             ) 
  Animates an item from its current position to the given offsets, scale and rotation.
  

• Code
  http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcompris/tree/src/braille_fun-activity?h=gcomprisbraille
  
  
• Screenshot
  http://i.imgur.com/TVvPi.png
  

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