[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] TuxType thanks and new bug - Spanish Missile command

[matt.redding]

Hi David and others,

I've got a recently installed Ubuntu box, and have had no luck at all 
getting
Tuxtype to work.

Having installed from src this is what I hear from it:

LoadSettings: Settings file does not exist! settings not loaded
Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device

Where is this settings file and what do I have to do to it to get it going?

Thanks,


Matt

David Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> It seems that setting tuxtype to Spanish, Tux type games like missile
>> command don't work, on a Ubuntu box.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> ==========================
>> Get a working PC and wipe the HD
>> install Ubuntu 7.10 in Spanish from the start
>> keyboard setup in Ubuntu is for a US keyboard
>> use the synaptic package manager to get tuxtype
>> start tuxtype and change to spanish
>> play keycascade , it works ok
>> try to play the missile command game
>>
>> result:
>> and the missile game fails
>> see a word like agua
>> pressing the letter agua will not zap the word
>>     
>
> I have an Ubuntu 7.10 machine I can test this on later today - I don't know 
> what version of tuxtype is in that Ubuntu release.  This vaguely sounds like 
> something I encountered a few months ago when the internals of tuxtype 
> relating to Unicode, UTF-8 and the like were all getting redone.
>
> I have used that Ubuntu box to work on both tuxtype and tuxmath, and the 
> current builds of both games work fine.  Try downloading the current tar.gz 
> from the Alioth site and building it, if you like.  You need the *-dev 
> packages for SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, and SDLPango, which you can 
> install with Synaptic (or Aptitude).  The build itself is just 
> a "tar -xzf ...; cd tuxtype...; ./configure; make; sudo make install".
>
>
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