Re: World menu
karl ramberg <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:51 AM, <mokurai-ikfZt3P9bkcA4t5MK3byRdi2O/[email protected]> wrote: > Just so. This Reference Manual is aimed at the power user. Among other > things, I am trying to learn how to use Squeak development to add > facilities to Etoys. > > I am still looking for documents that explain Etoys for the classroom > teacher and the student without going behind them into Squeak development. > I have found many that begin to explain parts of Etoys, but nothing that I > consider satisfactory. For example, nothing that systematically explains > what tiles are available for Etoys programming, and the places to find > them. I know about > > Object viewers > The gold chest > The function menus in some tiles > > Are there more? You can find all morphs that have additional morphic categories with the MethodFinder : WorldMenu/Open/MethodFinder. Search for "additionsTo" Karl > > On Sat, September 8, 2012 9:16 am, karl ramberg wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:47 AM, <mokurai-ikfZt3P9bkcA4t5MK3byRdi2O/[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have discovered by trying many combinations that alt-shift-w brings up >>> the World menu in Etoys on Ubuntu. I have added that and some other >>> information to >>> >>> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/ >>> >>> and I am about to add the keyboard shortcuts for the XO. (I have two of >>> them, which I have named Thing1 and Thing2.)...First pass, done now. >>> >>> Apparently I now know how to apply all that I know of Squeak (not a lot, >>> but increasing) within Etoys, by bringing up menus that allow me to >>> bring >>> up everything else. >>> >>> Is there a design document for Etoys explaining what its intention is? >>> Am >>> I right in thinking that it is meant to provide a greatly restricted >>> programming environment on the surface, where only a few >>> Squeak/Smalltalk >>> objects and methods are available without going behind the scenes, >>> chosen >>> for younger children? >> >> Squeak is the environment in which Etoys lives. While direct access to >> Squeak is possible its of most interest to power user. Its not hard to >> break the system running Squeak so access is made not easy to stumble >> uppon. A broken system is quite disruptive to most lectures and >> newbies. >> >> Karl >>> -- >>> Edward Mokurai >>> (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) >>> Cherlin >>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. >>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> squeakland mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >> > > > -- > Edward Mokurai > (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) > Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > >