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My child wanted to be able to draw on pictures that she took with her XO's camera, using TuxPaint instead of the Paint activity.

I couldn't find a simple way to do this, but I did come up with this python script to grab the most recent entries from the Journal and copy them to TuxPaint's saved images folder.

The process goes like this:

1. Use the Record activity to take a picture. Use the "Keep" button to save it in the journal. Quit Record.
2. Open up Terminal and run the script. I have this script aliased to a command in my .bashrc file, just to make things easier. Ignore any error messages.
3. Open TuxPaint and click the "Open" button. Your most recent PNG files from the Journal should be in the saved directory.

Here's the python script:

Code:

import os

def copyJournalEntries():
datastore = '~/.sugar/default/datastore/store/'
cmd = 'ls -t '+datastore+' | head | tail -n 8'
dataList = os.popen(cmd).readlines()
for i in range(len(dataList)):
item = dataList[i].strip('\n')
targetName = "tuxTemp_"+str(i)+".png"
cmd='cp '+datastore+item+' ~/.sugar/default/org.tuxpaint.sugar-is-lame/data/.tuxpaint/saved/'+targetName
os.popen(cmd)



copyJournalEntries()

This copies the most recent eight items from the Journal into the TuxPaint folder and renames them as PNG files. TuxPaint then filters out the files it can't recognize, and what remains is your camera images.

I'm not much of a programmer, and I have no idea how to navigate the byzantine levels of the Journal structure, but this seems to work pretty well for me.

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