PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Nov. 6, 2008

 

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

 

Sim Updates

·         Wrote feasibility test for auto-updater, see #881, waiting for feedback

·         Bugfix in hyperlinks for update dialog, see #882

 

Flash Launcher

·         Fixed a problem that Flash wasn't launching under 1.4, see #896

 

Flash Tracking

·         Integrated java tracking + updates into Flash Launcher, see #880, waiting for feedback

·         Wrote a prototype for Java-Flash communication, requires sockets & network sandbox

 

Forces-1D

·         Ported to trunk phetcommon, Noah verified (and pointed out a minor problem)

 

Misc

·         CCK: Added a right-click wiggle me, see #784, posted on main site

·         Posted Eating & Exercise on main site as 1.00 last Thursday

·         Posted new build of QWI online that fixes non-English launching problem.

·         Discussed making translated JARs available offline, see #783

·         Posted a new Wave Interference to tigercat with fixes for sources-out-of-phase

 

Upcoming Work

·         See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here

 

My to-do list (on Unfuddle):

 

 

number

component_name

summary

milestone_title

priority

881

phetcommon

Automatic downloading & launching of updates

awaiting-feedback

5

880

phetcommon

Java-side update & tracking for Flash sims

awaiting-feedback

5

903

all-sims

Test ported sims under mac

needs-mac

4

902

self-driven-particle-model

add tracking and updates

awaiting-feedback

4

883

website

Help design database for tracking, see #862

awaiting-feedback

4

837

quantum-wave-interference

JSlider doesn't render properly on Mac

needs-mac

4

783

website

make translated sims available offline

awaiting-feedback

4

782

translation-general

Make sure all sims use proper convention for string property files.

awaiting-feedback

4

774

all-sims

Licensing issues

awaiting-feedback

4

767

all-sims

Localization Issues revealed by Alex's study

awaiting-feedback

4

741

phetcommon

add update and tracking features

awaiting-feedback

4

899

eating-and-exercise

Evaluate and implement recommendations from IPHY team

<none>

3

884

wave-interference

restrict 2 slit width so that it is always 2 slits

<none>

3

879

eating-and-exercise

New issues for next version of Eating & Exercise

<none>

3

878

self-driven-particle-model

make sim translatable

<none>

3

786

<none>

New Motion Simulation Suite

<none>

3

776

phetcommon

Move to Java 1.5

awaiting-feedback

3

771

build-process

Set up a workflow for posting a candidate simulation on dev and copying to tigercat after verification

<none>

3

779

unfuddle

Sometimes there is a delay in the Unfuddle notifier emails

<none>

2