When my relatives moved to Linux

John Craig jc at spl21.net
Thu Nov 9 08:02:07 EST 2006


Works fine on Suse Linux 10 and Rev 2.6.1 - after I reread your mail and 
actually played it properly and clicked the check marks!
You're a lot younger than I imagined you - that picture IS up to date, 
isn't it??

JC

Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I made a jolly little stack (on a Mac computer),
> "Family.rev", to 
> test my kids' knowledge of word such as "aunt",
> "uncle", 
> "cousin" and so on.
>
> It is available on RevOnline: Family Words
>
> So, took it downstairs and popped it on my Linux boxes
> and . . .
>
> dull thud!
>
> an important part of the functionality would not work.
>
> Card 2 features a family tree with 14 text boxes for 
> end-users to fill in with kinship terms 
>
> [doesn't it sound all pompous and pseudo-academic 
> when I use words like 'end-users' and 'kinship terms' 
> instead of 'kids' and 'family words'? - jargonised 
> nonsense really] 
>
> and by each textbox there is a 'tick' image - when 
> the kid clicks on it, it checks the content of the
> textbox 
> and how many other textboxes have had text entered 
> correctly into them; if that total is 14 it send a 'go
> next' 
> signal.
>
> Worked on Mac,
>
> Nothing doing on Linux.
>
> Help gratefully received, Richmond Mathewson
>
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