RE: [ToonTalk] Appearance of flipped pictures in ToonTalk

Hi,

	These are great suggestions!
	I would add that a possible reason for adding labels to bombs,
scales and trucks would be the creation of different educational settings.
	
	I.e., while for most of us a bomb is just a bomb, perhaps one could
use a robot to "distribute" bombs to other robots. And of course, any bomb
would do the trick. But perhaps some kids might find it nice to be able to
say "this will go there, this will go in that place".
	The same could apply to scales and trucks, with an added twist: if
one day we could "customize" these elements (for instance, programming
scales to compare colors or some other property), then these labels might
come handy.

Inté,
 
Leonel


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Kahn [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: quinta-feira, 13 de Novembro de 2003 18:25
To: [email protected]
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Subject: [ToonTalk] Appearance of flipped pictures in ToonTalk


Dear ToonTalkers,

I have received many requests for a way to make it clear what is on the
other side of a flipped picture. Various suggestions have been made about
making the background of the flipped picture semi transparent or to add a
miniature version of the image on the back. These suggestions are good but
have their problems. The semi transparent image can easily be covered up if
there are lots of things on the back of the picture. The miniature can be
confused for a picture that is on the back.

Jakob, Ylva, and I came up with a nice alternative. The miniature picture is
at the corner and protrudes from the back of the flipped picture. A mock up
of what the ball in the Pong game would like when flipped can be found at

http://www.toontalk.com/flipped_ball.gif

The protruding image is also a nice handle for grabbing the picture and not
a sub-picture.

And then while we are at it why not use this space for a label for the
picture. Robots, birds, nests, boxes, and notebooks have labels why not
pictures, text pads, and numbers? (I can't see a reason to give bombs,
scales, or trucks labels.) And then the idea came up that if you use the new
dialog to save a ToonTalk object that the file should get its name from the
label of the object being saved.

Comments?

Best,

-ken



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