What would it LOOK like? (from Adult E-toys last paragraphs).

Hi James,

These sound like good idea's.

What would your lists look like? (Before and After and maybe During?) What would the book (and its pages) look like?

Why don't you see how much you can mock up the way these would look. (Just assemble morphs etc. ) to give a visual impression of what it would look like. Lots can be done just in morphic with the direct manipulation of things and without any programming.

Get a clearer specification. Then write about it and maybe attach some of the pictures to the email.

Snapshots don't actually have to behave they just have to look like they might.

Yours in service, --Jerome Peace

One way in which this type of environment could be

useful to the layperson

(and I have many more ideas which I'll save for a

later date) would be the

types of things that people generally use (and abuse)

spreadsheets for.

For example, if we had a list that we could pull from

a flap and then could

produce a tile that sums all the elements or have a

'collect' tile that

could be used to make a little script to add 15% to

the values and populate

a new list... These morphs (or tweaks) could be

embedded into a bookmorph

(booktweak?) and easily presented in an attractive

manner. One could even

use the animation capabilities that etoys already has

to create motivational

aids - a small drawing of an athlete who will reach

the finishing line at

the other side of the screen if the numbers add up

right (those numbers

could be your weight, the money you've earned, the

amount of cigarettes

you've smoked..) Anyway, I'm sure a lot of you have thought about the

dynabook and about

adult etoys and fantasised about what it could do. I

just worry, maybe

unjustly so that squeak is being developed by such

competent programmers

that the needs or wants of people like me who aren't

programmers or maybe

have it as a hobby gets overlooked. I think that an

adult etoys environment

would be the killer app (environment or whatever you

would call it) for

squeak. Many thanks to all of you for such an amazing piece

of software,

James

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