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wow great!!!!! you are unstoppable.

ok, it's been a (long) while but I've been learning using spline ik to control tentacles. you can get them to move more like an octopus (tentacles can move in waves and they can stretch and contract like an animal which has no skeleton)  than a bony marionette.  i've messed up some of the transforms and parenting. (you have to make this elaborate hierarchy of splines, "hooks", "empties", and spheres which are used to control the splines)

in all of it's wip-ness

http://www.ifam.net/openspace/mascot/web/index.html

btw, chrome has disabled activex plugins on win7.  you have to enter a special command in the address bar to temporarily enable the scol plugin.

here are the instructions from google:

it's not a big deal with me but I will post to redmine.

but it works! it's not pretty because i have to fix a bunch of transforms of some of the controlling elements.

what a mess (it's like my kids dumped their legos....)

Edit: yes it is

Ok I will checkout the mkapplet.pkg.

My cousin who I was very close to just died, a few weeks ago, out of the blue.

What I remember from funeral sermon:

Those who do great deeds and show great kindness are most sorely missed, honor them with their deeds and kindness and they live on in you.

Can the _newmachine function be used on android to manage multiple vm's. Arkeon I think you know what I'm thinking of.....loading screens during os3d startup on android.

Or can scol communicate with the android os to use 'activities' (I think that's what I call  'pages' on android refer to (I'm familiarizing myself with the general Android api but have just begun....,analogous to windows on a desktop/laptop inteface.)

ok, I made a .scol file and 2 .pkg files.  the first loads tools/os3dlib/android.pkg in the system partition and tests/android_hello_world/dependencypackage.pkg in the user partition.

i somehow (and perhaps mistakenly) think that scol will do the .apk compiling (packing? encrypting? both? neither?) in dependencypackage.pkg.

basicly my goal it to do that player project i was working on with windows 8 on android, so all scol is doing is putting a bunch of .pkg files on an android device.  (once its there, then there are many things to figure out in getting scol to communicate with the android os to interact with other android apps (like chrome) to download (os3d apk files) and to get other chrome apps (like facebook) to start up the scol machine and make it download os3d  .apks (or perhaps an android based player could download .pak files?)

many questions, don't answer them now or feel any obligation to...at this point i'm trying to figure out how to get the scol vm to write "hello world" to a console (or whatever android uses that functions like the console) on my cheap and crappy alcatel fierce 2 (i got an sd card for it).  never get that model unless you are testing how scol functions on ultra cheap and bad hardware. it sucks.

perfect for testing hardware requirements

i posted the files to http://ifam.net/openspace/android/hello … _world.zip

.scol file:

_load "tests/android_hello_world/android_hello_world_loader.pkg"loadermain

android_hello_world_loader.pkg code

proto hello_world_in_other__loaded_pkg_file = fun [] I;;


fun secureLoad(pack)=  

let _testpak pack -> ret in  

if (ret == nil) then 

 (  

  _load  pack;   
  1; 

 )  else 

 (      

_fooS strcat ">>>>> Compilation error : " ret;  

 0;  

);;
  
  
fun loadermain()=  let "tools/os3dlib/android.pkg"::
 //the next file is in my Openspace3D user partition
 "tests/android_hello_world/dependencypackage.pkg"::	 
 nil  
-> lfiles in 


 (    

while (lfiles != nil) && (secureLoad hd lfiles) do   

 (        
  _showconsole;
_fooS "still loading dependency pkg's";
  set lfiles = tl lfiles;   
 );       

 if (lfiles == nil)

 then   

(           

//execute  hello_world_in_other__loaded_pkg_file "Hello World";
 _fooS ">>>>>>>>>>>> done loading dependencies, Hello World on my windows pc!!!!";
 //now call hello_world_in_other__loaded_pkg_file function in 
tests/android_hello_world/dependencypackage.pkg
 hello_world_in_other__loaded_pkg_file;
 0;  

 )    
else   

 (          
 0;   
 ); 

 );  

0;;

tests/android_hello_world/dependencypackage.pkg:

fun hello_world_in_other__loaded_pkg_file()=
//here we are in the .pkg file that will run the code in the android .apk....I'm a bit  lost as to how to achieve this...mkapplet.pkg is pretty complicated and looks like its used for publishing .xos files as .paks on web servers and .apk's on android devices, whereas I just want to put some .pkg files into an .apk file
//so this is what i would like scol to do on android, display the console and say something
_showconsole;
_fooS "I'm a scol app in Android!!! Hello World of Android!"; 
0;;