[gcompris-devel] Running an activity out from GCompris

[Jaume Obrador]

Hi.

Thanks a lot for the answers. Bruno, I tried Ktechlab, that's exactly
what I need, I can't explain how I didn't find it before.

In that case, I think I will leave the project to enhance electric
activity, sorry, I'm too busy now to get in such a job.

By the way, for a future versions, I think the idea of José Jorge is
good, maybe use levels 4 or 5 to reduce components and add saving
functionality and extra output, like Ressistence. Maybe you can let it
in the TODO list.

Sorry to have been so confusing in the list and thanks a lot again.

Jaume Obrador.

El dt 16 de 02 de 2010 a les 23:28 +0100, en/na Bruno Coudoin va
escriure:
> Le mardi 16 février 2010 à 18:51 +0100, Jaume Obrador a écrit : 
> > So my question now is, what's better?
> > 
> > 1.- Modify full electric activity to reduce icons?
> 
> Sure, I can and will do this.
> 
> > 2.- Leave the original electric activity for small children and create a
> > clone with reduced icons, and maybe other extras and pack it as a
> > different activity? (It would be great to be able to save circuits, see
> > Ressistence, as well as V and I, etc...). I will use it on high school
> > students (14-15 year old).
> 
> Hum, I think that using GCompris for 14-15 years old children is a
> mistake in the first place. We don't and won't target this age range. 
> 
> My son is 16 and we use ktechlab for serious electricity simulation.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/
> 
> This project includes it own simulation engine which is quite
> impressive.
> 
> On our side, GCompris starts gnucap in stdin / stdout parsing mode which
> is rather simple to do but highly inefficient. We cannot go much more
> dynamic than what we currently do. We'd better keep this activity to do
> what is has been build for, introduce electricity concept to children.
> 
> As a rule of thumb, GCompris's activity are here to discover concept.
> Then I expect children to use serious software when they expect more
> feature.
>