[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Some issues that I see with 1.8.0

[Caroline Ford]

The max length is 8 I think. I had this issue with my colours word list.

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On 11 Nov 2009, at 14:48, Matthew McSpadden <webmaster at anvilsmithtech.com 
 > wrote:

> Hey all,
> Just wanted to run by you guys some things that I noticed when  
> testing and setting up tuxtype on our computer lab here at school.
>
> 1. When you hover over the icon it says run Tuxtype 2, it's not a  
> big deal, I think it is just left over from previous things.
>
> 2. My first problem with tuxtype 1.8.0 is the new words lists. And  
> i'd like to share how I fixed it in my case. Let me say that I LOVE  
> this feature and am looking forward to using it. It would allow the  
> students to come in with their spelling words, make a list and then  
> play games to practice them. The problem that I ran into is that we  
> are using a domain. Which means the students are all on limited  
> accounts so that they can't mess up the computers too badly. But  
> this also means that they do not have permissions to create new  
> lists. I got around this by giving them all permissions to the  
> tuxtype folder in program files, but it seems to me that if we are  
> going to offer this custom lists thing, that it aught to be stored  
> in the users application data folder, rather than in program files.  
> This would allow users to bring word lists with them from computer  
> to computer if they use roaming profiles, and also would make it  
> easier to back up custom word lists and move to another computer.  
> Just a thought. I don't know if you could change the file path  
> without much work or not.
>
> 3. Long words.... particularly anything over about 10 letters. I was  
> trying to create a list for the 50 states of the USA for my  
> students, and I created one with about 10 of them to test, and found  
> that it kept repeating like the same 4 states, never did the others.  
> I tracked it down to the other words being too long? Is the only  
> thing that I could find, more than 10 would not fit on the screen so  
> they ignored those words? Could something be done to allow for  
> longer words later on, and maybe in the mean time put some notation  
> in the new words lists that says max word length is x amount?
>
> I love the new backgrounds and new music, overall seems to be a  
> really nice setup. I like the update, please keep doing what you  
> guys do.
>
> Matt
>
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