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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.)

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);
            }
        }

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

New Post: KeyUp/KeyDown, Playing wav

dragansr — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:36:54 GMT

Scott

Thank you for a nice program, my 2-year daughter loves it :)

Occasionally, she press a key and holds it, but nothing happens until the key is released.

I have traced the issue to MainWindow.xaml.cs, method OnKeyUp();
By replacing it with the event OnKeyDown I was able to make response to key pressed almost immediate
but this required another adjustmet to avoid too many duplicates; so I have added delay of 1 second between them.
This behavior is now more similar to most editors.

static DateTime dtPre = DateTime.MinValue;
protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e) {
    DateTime dtNow = DateTime.Now; TimeSpan ts = dtNow.Subtract(dtPre);
    if (ts.TotalSeconds > 1) {
        base.OnKeyDown(e);
        e.Handled = true;
        controller.ProcessKey(this, e);
        dtPre = dtNow;
    }
}

On similar topic, was there a reason to use p/invoke to detect keyboard events (KeyboardHook.cs)
Since you are closer to Windows source, I am guessing there may be some advantage to avoiding managed code?

I have also observed that you are using p/invoke (dllimport) to play wav files (audio.cs)
this is done in a separate thread for each call, and wav files are stored as resourced in exe.

I was using managed code like this for similar tasks:
using (System.Media.SoundPlayer sndplayr = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(sWavFile)) { sndplayr.Play(); }

Was there some reason to use p/invoke for playing wavs, and to place each in separate thread?

Dragan Sretenovic

New Post: Simply Well Done

simonjohnroberts — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:51:23 GMT

A thread to give thanks to Scott et al.

I'll start.

Many thanks.

New Post: Volunteering for the Refactor/Test Train

Shula0 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:05:48 GMT

I'd be happy to help too.

New Post: Volunteering for the Refactor/Test Train

shanselman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:36:31 GMT

At this point, really another set of eyes. The code feels untidy and unready for the future.

New Post: Volunteering for the Refactor/Test Train

KevDog — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:20:20 GMT

What do you need done?

KevDog

New Post: Voice issue

shanselman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:56:17 GMT

I totally agree. Recording better voices is on my list.

New Post: Voice issue

ms44cn — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:00:10 GMT

This project is very useful .

And if the text speech voice use some real baby cute voice may be better than current TTS .

These baby cute voice may be random played.

Thanks.

New Post: Feature Ideas http://babysmash.uservoice.com

shanselman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:37:43 GMT

Feature Ideas http://babysmash.uservoice.com

New Post: Looking Good

shanselman — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:46:17 GMT

Thanks! Keep the good ideas coming!

Also, try the new features like clicking on the faces and using the Mouse Zoom Wheel!

New Post: Laptop?

shanselman — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:45:36 GMT

You're kidding. I get occasional comments about this kind of thing, but few and far between. Do you have a special keyboard with a shutdown or sleep button? How is he getting out or full-screen? Do you have anything else that has a registered hot key?