[Icon-tech] RE: some bugs I found in developer

[Michael McDonald]

> Hi, When I was playing around with the developer program I noticed that 
> there is no way to back out once you are in a project once you are in it.

Yeah, currently you have to close developer and go back into it if you want to switch projects.

> Also, some of the options like the settings menu and build and install don't 
> currently work.  I do like that you can run a program with out installing it 
> or building the package.

I need to remove the settings menu since I don't have any settings in the program yet.  I believe the install option works, it just returns to the menu when it shouldn't.  I forgot a package needed for building ipks which is located at http://tech.aph.org/mm/files/binutils_2.16-r8_arm.ipk.

> One thing is when you go into the files or data 
> view and press select on for example the hangman project you only see the 
> names of the files you can't open and edit them.  

If you press select on files they aren't opening??  They were working for me.

> Creating the control file for ipkg would be nice to be able to do.  Also 
> choosing if packages are to be compiled or not but then again it is probably
> for security reasons why they are compiled.

There is a temporary package directory that is created, so you can view the control file in there.  Currently it creates pyo files, because that is how they ultimately end up anyway.  Is there a reason you wouldn't want the pyo files??

> When selecting in the projects file view you see all of 
> the files not just the prj files.  

I'll have to look into that.

> The settings menu and some of the other menus are not functional and if a 
> lesson is installed already and you go to the sample sessons view you are 
> not told that this lesson is already installed.

I'll add this to the TODO list.

> Over all I like the developer program but think it could use 
> more work.  The lesson names should be listed in the sample lessons instead 
> of just saying lesson 1 it could say lesson 1 hello world.  This way a user 
> would know what lesson they are installing before they install it.  Writing 
> some documentation on developer and the supporting lessons would also be 
> nice.

It definitely needs more work, but I wanted to get it out there to see what people liked and didn't like.  If anyone else is interested in working with it just post to this list and I help you work through it.  Help is something that is needed as well as some explanations for the lessons.  For now if you have any questions I'll try and answer them here.

Mike