[gcompris-devel] Re: Submarine status

[bruno]

OK, it's commited.

My problem is that I still don't understand simply how it works, so I
can't teach my kids.

Please, explain us what is water, what is air in the diagram.

Bruno.


Le mar 01/04/2003 à 23:16, pgeorges a écrit :
> bruno wrote:
> 
> > I have a real problem to understand what I am doing with the submarine.
> > I understand the valves, but what do I move, air, water ?
> > Perhaps you should represent the air or water inside the submarine.
> 
> You get the value of water only for the small central tank. For main air 
> tanks, just do like submariners : use your watch !
> When the air floods outside, I represented it, which is not what you get 
> in reality (only other ships see you bubbling).
> Of course, you noticed you can refill battery and air when surfaced.
> When my kids use it, I explain how things work. This may be easier for 
> me because I am a former (attack) submariner :-)
> I tried to make something close to the reality, and to show what can be 
> done as simulation boards.
> This made me hate a bit more all the gnome libs, which really are far 
> behind Qt.
> 
> > Do you feel ready for a release of your board. Could you provide the
> > menu and icon (and remove mine boards/submarine.xml.in)
> 
> The icon seems to be already commited (it is attached to this mail), but 
> submarine.xml.in was also and I get an error :
> cvs -f add 'boards/submarine.xml.in' 2>&1
> cvs server: boards/submarine.xml.in added independently by second party
> 
> So I attached it to this mail. Bruno, can you commit it ?
> 
> I am short of time at the moment to do all what I'd like to. So I am a 
> bit far from gcompris right now.
> 
> Pascal
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <GCompris>
>   <Board
> 	 name="submarine"
> 	 type="submarine"
> 	 section="/fun/."
> 	 difficulty="5"
> 	 icon="boardicons/submarine.png"
> 	 author="Pascal Georges (pascal.georges1 at free.fr)"
> 	 boarddir="submarine">
> 	 <_title>Pilot a submarine</_title>
> 	 <_description>Pilot a submarine using air tanks and dive rudders</_description>
> 	<_prerequisite>Physics basics</_prerequisite>
> 	<_goal>Learn how a submarine works</_goal>
> 	<_manual>Click on different active elements : engine, rudders and air tanks
> 	in order to navigate at the ordered depth.</_manual>
>   </Board>
> </GCompris>
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