Author Topic: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers (Read 169,651 times)

app103 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2009, 07:36 PM »

You have been featured on Lifehacker!

http://lifehacker.com/5124343/crazylittlefingers-rewards-your-toddlers-curiosity

Congratulations!

eric_the_girl · « **Reply #26 on:** January 06, 2009, 08:37 PM »

32 bit, 64 bit is too hard to find pre-installed.

mouser · « **Reply #27 on:** January 07, 2009, 01:20 AM »

Congrats on the lifehacker writeup

app103 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 07, 2009, 11:34 AM »

If you still need sounds for this, there is a whole bunch here: http://sounds.beachware.com/index.htm

And they have the entire alphabet (and numbers) spoken in English, French and Spanish, so you could make it multi-lingual.

About a year ago I had plans on making an application very similar to yours (but with various educational activities & games for older kids, too), and those are the sounds I planed on using for it. (I own the CD)

The sounds from the site are free to use for noncommercial purposes and you can get the full collection on disk with commercial usage rights for $20 (that's a bargain)

kwacky1 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2009, 01:24 PM »

unbelievable, i did not expect this in the slightest.. I entered NANY 2009 because I thought it would motivate me to finish (well start actually) a project that I'd been contemplating for 6 months or more!

My website is serving 15gb per day!

Check out these stats!

Date	Page Requests
Jan 1	275
Jan 2	39
Jan 3	85
Jan 4	47
Jan 5	90
Jan 6 (Lifehacker)	3428
Jan 7	1834

Boy, I've sure got my work cut out for me now!

kwacky1 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 08, 2009, 01:47 PM »

Ok, I've tested on Vista and I can see what you're talking about.

I'm currently on the road, so I won't get a chance to do any coding until the weekend, so I'll try to get an updated version out on Monday that will include Multiple Display Support and (hopefully) Vista support.

App, Thanks for the link, I used http://www.freesound.org/ for all the sounds in CLF.

kwacky1 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 09, 2009, 02:15 PM »

Well a promise is a promise, here's CrazyLittleFingers v1.1

Added Features

Support For Dual Screen Displays

Images displayed on Primary monitor
Secondary monitor darkened and inaccessible via mouse

Can someone with Vista please test to see if the 'squashed' image problem is resolved.

buddha34 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 09, 2009, 04:34 PM »

Still squished in Vista... looking forward to a version that works with Vista (so's my 18 month old)

SvartaUdden · « **Reply #33 on:** January 09, 2009, 04:52 PM »

Hi.
I have the same problem with the squished images, but I have XP! (pro, sp3).

The only Vista-like thing I have is QTTabbar and QTAddressbar - windows explorer addons.
Other things I have speculated about causing this is Picasa 3 and XnView Shell Extension.
And other things running on my system is flashnote, launchy, avg, comodo, mediadetect, rbtray and stickies.
I hope it is resolved - have at two-year old who is crazy about this keyboard. $:-\$

kwacky1 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 10, 2009, 10:49 AM »

Quote

Still squished in Vista... looking forward to a version that works with Vista (so's my 18 month old)

hmm, I won't have access to a vista machine for a few days, might have to turn on some logging.

Quote from: SvartaUdden on January 09, 2009, 04:52 PM

Hi.
I have the same problem with the squished images, but I have XP! (pro, sp3).
The only Vista-like thing I have is QTTabbar and QTAddressbar - windows explorer addons.
Other things I have speculated about causing this is Picasa 3 and XnView Shell Extension.
And other things running on my system is flashnote, launchy, avg, comodo, mediadetect, rbtray and stickies.
I hope it is resolved - have at two-year old who is crazy about this keyboard. $:-\$

Now that is strange, because I'm using xp sp3, i also have picasa3, but none of the rest.

thanks for the feedback, I'll see what I can do.

kwacky1 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 10, 2009, 02:53 PM »

CrazyLittleFingers v1.1.1 - Minor Update

Cross your fingers, I may have resolved the squashed image problem.

If you're still getting squashed images, please have a look at %temp%\CrazyLittleFingers.log and tell me a story.

Also in this release:

Fixed the system beeps
Added some new sounds (thanks App)
enabled the Space bar!

dhc02 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 10, 2009, 05:01 PM »

When I try to unzip crazylittlefingers.zip, it asks me for a password, which I don't see referenced anywhere here. Am I missing something?

mouser · « **Reply #37 on:** January 10, 2009, 05:08 PM »

i think kwacky is having issues hosting the download..
i get bad zip file error..

in fact i have been getting bad zip for a while now.. come on kwacky! maybe back a small zip version, and then an addon pack for those who have magic powers and can download it without corruptio.

PhilB66 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 10, 2009, 05:27 PM »

Downloaded and extracted CrazyLittleFingers.zip with UniversalExtractor. Here's the error that I get for CrazyLittleFingers.exe:

[attach]

buddha34 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 10, 2009, 08:49 PM »

The squished pictures in Vista are fixed! Thanks for the update (BTW, no problem downloading the update alone)

SvartaUdden · « **Reply #40 on:** January 10, 2009, 11:55 PM »

Yes!!!
Now it works (on my xp) and its great.

Thanks for a great program.

kwacky1 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 11, 2009, 04:42 AM »

Quote from: dhc02 on January 10, 2009, 05:01 PM

When I try to unzip crazylittlefingers.zip, it asks me for a password, which I don't see referenced anywhere here. Am I missing something?

Hi dhc02, there's a good chance you were downloading while I was uploading the 1.1 release (my internet was very slooooow last night), please try again and let me know how you go.

Quote from: mouser on January 10, 2009, 05:08 PM

in fact i have been getting bad zip for a while now.. come on kwacky! maybe back a small zip version, and then an addon pack for those who have magic powers and can download it without corruptio.

how about I archive it to floppies and mail it to you

Quote from: PhilB66 on January 10, 2009, 05:27 PM

Downloaded and extracted CrazyLittleFingers.zip with UniversalExtractor. Here's the error that I get for CrazyLittleFingers.exe:

I think you might need to download it again too.

From now on I'll upload into a sub-directory instead of overwriting the live file

PhilB66 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 11, 2009, 05:53 AM »

Still unable to extract.

[attach]

kwacky1 · « **Reply #43 on:** January 11, 2009, 10:25 AM »

Quote from: PhilB66 on January 11, 2009, 05:53 AM

Still unable to extract.

Just for your PhilB66, CrazyLittleFingers.7z

PhilB66 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:31 AM »

OK now. Thanks kwacky1

mouser · « **Reply #45 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:43 AM »

works great.. very nice

(ps only shows on my main monitor, others are left alone).

kwacky1 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:57 AM »

Quote from: mouser on January 11, 2009, 11:43 AM

(ps only shows on my main monitor, others are left alone).

Hi Mouser, that's by design, btw, how many monitors do you have

PhilB66 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 11, 2009, 12:42 PM »

Pushing the [attach]

kwacky1 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 12, 2009, 05:56 AM »

Quote from: PhilB66 on January 11, 2009, 12:42 PM

Pushing the SHIFT key 5 times turns on the Sticky Keys Feature Dialog Box. Also, right clicking on the secondary monitor activates the taskbar on the primary one. Other than that, it seems to work great .

I haven't looked into disabled the accessiblity keys while the program is running, there's probably a reg key I can hit or something.

You shouldn't be able to right click on the secondary monitor, but I found a bug in my code (who would've thought)
The GUI is meant to be The width of Desktop 1 + Desktop 2 (eg 1280+1280 = 2560, or 1280+800 = 2080), however there was a typo and the current version is adding up the width of Desktop 2 + Desktop 2, so that's ok if you've got the same res on both monitors, but in my second example the GUI would only be 1600 wide and not cover the entire second monitor.

Thanks for your thorough testing PhilB66, v1.1.2 should be available in a couple of days.

mouser · « **Reply #49 on:** January 13, 2009, 12:16 PM »

i have 4 monitors by the way -- and the full screen images and sounds are very nice. might be nice to blank all the screens though.