DRAFT 4.1 Release Notes

added DrGeo for exploring geometry (see new example project)
objects can have speech bubbles (see "speech bubbles" tile category)
you can now easily create a new flap, find it in supplies
Sketches support two new tiles: "flip left right" and "flip up down" (in the "graphics" category)
the world has tiles in its "geometry" category now
there is a timer tile counting seconds ("playfield" category of world and other playfields)
new soundReverb preference lets you toggle a hall effect for each project
QuickGuides are translated now
preferences can be set permanently
use control-right click to easily resize objects
both control-click and cmd-click bring up halo on Mac

Copying objects between projects copies a Sketch and not the object. As a work-around, put the object into a flap shared between projects.
Uploading a project from Etoys to Squeakland does not work if you are behind a proxy. Please use a web browser to upload projects in this case.
On Mac OS X, the web browser plugin works unreliable in Safari. We recommend using Firefox until we fix this problem.
In general, if you encounter issues in the browser plugin, try clicking the full-screen button in the toolbar. This can fix animation sluggishness, repainting problems, and wrong key/button mappings.

no automatic save on stop under Sugar, must use keep button (enable sugarAutoSave preference to revert to old behavior)
made OLPC "view-source" key work in newer Sugar versions
"translatable" option of Text object is not enabled by default (turn it on in a Text's halo menu)
"stop sound" tile now stops sounds started with "make sound" tile in addition to "play frequency of" tile
bigger arrows are now shown in tiles on mouse-over (preference usePopUpArrows is enabled by default)
when changing a variable's value using the up/down arrows, they now change based on the number of decimal places
you can now change a circle's diameter by setting its "width" or "length"
TimesRepeat tile no longer allows you to set the number of repeats to a negative number
Users can no longer delete the paint box when painting
Fixed Bug so Holder's cursor does not extend beyond the width of the Holder
a variable can now be named 'val'
the 'fire' tile of an event theater's playback-button works now
reverting of book pages works correctly now
fix "overlaps any" tile
fix error when creating a script in Greek
fix copying non-latin text
"Demon Castle" tutorial renamed to "Etoys Castle", avoids controversial wording, mentions Cmd key to bring up halo on Mac one-button mouse.

Etoys can now store preferences permanently
to do this, choose "set automatically on startup…" from a preference's menu
to restore factory settings, use the "Reset preferences on start up" button in the preferences panel
preferences are stored in the Etoys preferences folder. On the Mac that's "Library/Application Support/Etoys/prefs", on Linux ".etoys/prefs", on Windows 7/Vista "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\etoys\prefs", on Windows XP "%APPDATA%\etoys\prefs"
confusing buttons on the first page of the Preferences panel are hidden now

QuickGuides (the help cards you see by clicking the "?" button in the toolbar) were translated to Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and (some) French.
Users can create their own QuickGuides for their own curriculum.
QuickGuides are allowed to have an index.txt to specify the order of guides in a category and the full UTF-8 name of the guide in its own language (file names are ASCII)

translations broken up in smaller files
added languages zh_CN, ca, sk, kn
Some of the languages are not fully translated. If you wish to help please visit http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/ and click on "Etoys", then submit your suggestions.

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