Road map

Chris

This is looking great already. There are a few editing things (e.g. can't use copy-paste-cut shortcuts in some circumstances). Is there a road map so we don't need to make unnecessary comments and feature requests about things that are being worked on?

nccb

We'll be announcing this properly next week but you can take a sneak peek at the new home of Strype's source code on Github: https://github.com/k-pet-group/Strype There's the full Issues list, plus I've added a roadmap at the bottom of the main page.

mik

To provide a bit more detail:

The immediate next release will include editing improvements. This includes the ability to transform frames into images, so that you can write your own documentation or exercise sheets for your students and include screenshots of Strype code easily.

The next release, coming in the first quarter of 2025, will be a general graphics console.

Currently, graphics is restricted to turtle graphics. In the new version, there will be an interactive graphics world with animated actors, collision detection, etc. It should then be possible to create Greenfoot-like scenarios that will allow much more engaging teaching examples.

Chris

This sounds fantastic! I wonder if the graphics world will support SVGs? I have always wanted an easy way to create smooth graphical transformations nicely with Python.

nccb

The graphics world will be quite similar to our Greenfoot system if you know that. It will allow moving around (and scaling and rotating) custom images. It uses canvas rather than SVG but I think it might do what you are thinking?