BabySmash! For Babies and Toddlers

Commented Issue: Multimon behaviour on Windows 8 [6941]

Karak — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:30:23 GMT

When running in a multi-monitor setup on Windows 8, the taskbar dances about between the screens as you click between them.

To fix this: In controller.cs, each new MainWindow that is created needs to have ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize.
Comments: This should theoretically be Fixed now in the BabySmashK branch, but I don't currently have the ability to test it.

Created Issue: Multimon behaviour on Windows 8 [6941]

mrstick2000 — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:23:52 GMT

New Post: Review patches?

karak — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:31:42 GMT

One nice thing with ClickOnce is that it's easy to "roll back" the world too, just by modifying the published manifest file. So if people get broken and report it, it's a simple matter to have the auto-updating mechanism get everyone back into good shape.

That said, indeed framework re-targeting probably shouldn't be done lightly, although I am guessing ClickOnce would take care of pulling in the new prereq automatically if we changed to 4.0 and the user didn't have that yet. (The code I forked was a VS2008 solution targeting 3.5 and IIRC VS2008 can't even target 4.0 normally so I'm guessing the published version is indeed 3.5, unless you had an uncommitted conversion.)

All in all, I think if we want to gear up for possible Windows 8 support or other notable developments, it may make sense to go with the v2 route now as a separate download path, w/targeting .NET 4.0 (CF?) right from the start. (If it wasn't clear, the list I made are things that I'm thinking about doing, not things I've done yet. Except 10-key as numbers, which I did today.)

I'll PM personal info. :)

New Post: Review patches?

shanselman — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:48:14 GMT

Very cool! I’m a *little* afraid to touch this code just because it’s been fine for literally YEARS and there’s THOUSANDS of people using it…by that I mean, if we do publish a new version with ClickOnce, the whole world could fall apart. I don’t even know if it’s 3.5SP1 or 4.0 now. I suspect the former.

I’ll take a look at this code this week and see if it’s cool. I’m sure I can commit it all and test it (although the framework version issue is a big one…maybe this is BabySmash v2 (like a separate download, rather than upgrading all clients – thoughts?))

FYI – Me and another guy are considering a BabySmash Windows 8 version as well. He’s got a JS version. Where you located? I’m trying to figure out how to coordinate this new interest.

New Post: Review patches?

karak — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:31:43 GMT

I've finally done this and made a pull request :)

Next up, I'd like to make sure things I work on (if I continue) are likely candidates to be pulled. Let me know if any of these are something you wouldn't want to pull:

* Upgrade to VS2010 or VS2012.

* Actually target .NET Framework 4 (CF) as the hanselman page suggests is a prereq.

* Adding pentagon.

* Having the 10-key pad show numbers instead of shapes.

* When detecting a typed word, animating the letters into the word and speech-synthing the word instead of the letter (excluding a blacklist of bad words).

New Post: Review patches?

shanselman — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:15:34 GMT

Why not fork the code?

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On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:01 AM, "Karak" <notifications@codeplex.com> wrote:

From: Karak

Please review and pull in the stagnant backlog of patches. Alternatively, can we open this project up to allow others to commit directly, etc?

New Post: Review patches?

Karak — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:01:06 GMT

Please review and pull in the stagnant backlog of patches. Alternatively, can we open this project up to allow others to commit directly, etc?

New Post: New Features?

karak — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:47:00 GMT

When pressing keys that display the random shapes (and name them), I'd like it to also be able to show short strings and say them, like the child's name: I would add a button to the options screen for customizing this list with another dialog (so you can enter your child's names, or whatever you wish).

A short queue of the letters pressed could be kept, and do a dictionary comparison looking for short words (or the above custom words) recently typed, so if a (sanitization-safe) word is typed then the word is printed and spoken too.

There could be a pentagon shape.

The eyes/faces on the shapes could be randomized instead of always having the same eyes and mouth on each shape.

The shapes could enter with a variety of entrance effects, such as "zooming in from tiny spot" or "slide in from random edge of screen" or a random combination of such effects (including the current spin-in).

Specific key(s) could do more specific/interesting things, like shatter one of the existing shapes on screen (Spacebar?)

The simultaneous preparation of speech could be better throttled (IE ignore some speech if the active speech set is getting too large) to avoid large smash sequences from resulting in speech lag then a sudden burst of overlapping speech. (Maybe that's more a bug report.)

Patch Uploaded: #11011

karak — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:22:18 GMT

Karak has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Added CoolOval (as modified from CoolCircle). I couldn't get SVN to import the project. Got a couple other enhancements in mind that I may make, but testing out the response for integration here :) Add this to project and add a line to FigureGenerator to use it: new KeyValuePair<string, BrushControlFunc>("Oval", x => new CoolOval(x) ),

Commented Issue: Keys stopped working [2651]

Karak — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:05:33 GMT

Hi

I was running BS on windows server 2003. ran it for about 2 minutes then did an exit using ALT+F4 on returning to windows i found that few keys are not working. List of keys not working is as follow

DOT BACKSPACE PLUS MINUS LESSTHAN GREATERTHAN ALT WINDOWKEY UNDERSCORE

there may be other keys but these are the one i found till now

by the way this is a great application exactly what i have been looking for my two years old daughter till now i have been using notepad and hoping that she will not do something dangerous
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Karak **

This happened to me too, but it was after the app wasn't fully taking all the inputs so I think it may have been some Windows/accessibility thing. I found that I couldn't use shift to get question marks and such either (in addition to noticing some of the keys above not working right), and I ended up rebooting. (Vista)

New Post: KeyUp/KeyDown, Playing wav

mgbrown — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:08:07 GMT

Doesn't doing this work better?

       protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnKeyDown(e);
            if (!e.IsRepeat)
            {
                e.Handled = true;
                controller.ProcessKey(this, e);
            }
        }

Commented Issue: Keys stopped working [2651]

ImaginaryDev — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:47:53 GMT

when I had a bunch of keys not working, I went to task manager and found that baby smash was not closed all the way, I did an end task and the keys started working again.

Created Issue: Windows 7 Peek [6940]

xiquon — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:03:02 GMT

On my windows 7 ultimate machine my two year old son is able to get the Windows Peek functionality to happen. I am not sure what combination of keys he hits but it has happened on multiple occasions. This has happened in both transparent and non transparent modes.

Source code checked in, #55373

_TFSSERVICE — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:49:34 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: Simply Well Done

shanselman — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:35:27 GMT

Thanks! I'd love to see the patch.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, simonjohnroberts <notifications@codeplex.com> wrote:

From: simonjohnroberts

My how time flies.

Well my babies are a little bigger now but I still have a really small one in the mix.

All three still love babysmash.

I have implemented the dual screen fix, and got it running midi as per the requests in Feedback.babysmash.com

I'll try to russle together a patch for here, its against the latest codebase at the time of this writing.

Maybe I'll come back in a few more years and say HI again :)

Have a great day Scott.

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New Post: Simply Well Done

simonjohnroberts — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:36:35 GMT

My how time flies.

Well my babies are a little bigger now but I still have a really small one in the mix.

All three still love babysmash.

I have implemented the dual screen fix, and got it running midi as per the requests in Feedback.babysmash.com

I'll try to russle together a patch for here, its against the latest codebase at the time of this writing.

Maybe I'll come back in a few more years and say HI again :)

Have a great day Scott.

New Post: BabySmash in Mono

sheepeatingtaz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:05:52 GMT

Just wondering if anyone had had any success building BabySmash using Mono on Linux?

I've had a quick go, without much success, so wondering if it would even be possible?

Steve

Patch Uploaded: #4123

jesperll — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:19:14 GMT

jesperll has uploaded a patch.

Description:
The FontChooser combo specifies a VirtualizingStackPanel as ItemsPanel. However the babySmashComboBox style hard codes a StackPanel as items host. This pack changes the style to use an ItemsPresenter instead. The result is that the FontChooser combo *is* virtualized and MUCH faster to bring up - especially if you have a lot of fonts installed.

Created Issue: The voice resources are missing from codeplex source code

evarlast — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:08:39 GMT

Is this intentional? I wanted to put together a portable stand alone exe, but now that my baby is getting older I think should would benefit from the speaking of the letters instead of just the laughs.

Commented Issue: Keys stopped working

binishkaspar — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:00:19 GMT

For me also some keys are not working after running the babysmash i am using vista sp1 But i like this application very much (No dots between sentence because its not working D )