<p>Hello Rob:</p><p>I have been using Squeak for corporate presentation. I have effectively stopped using PowerPoint. As you suspected, I use the book morph and the stack morph for creating presentations. My Squeak presentations are much more effective and come across as creative than passive PowerPoint ones. However, I do find a lot of limitations in Squeak, owing to my own ignorance I think, they are as follows:</p>
<p>1. I tried animating my Squeak presentations using EToys but it is way too hard</p><p>2. I failed to run some Flash movies on Squeak, some months ago Edgar had suggested that older images support Flash but it didn't work for me. Maybe I failed to include the Balloon package and was trying to activate the FlashPlayer Morph. I lost interest in that at that point in time and left off my experiments.</p>
<p>3. Exporting my slides from a book morph and a stack morph is way too laborious, the way I do it. Usually, I save all my slides as Jpegs/PNGs and send them to people in a folder which they can view in any Windows/Linux image viewer with slide show capability. This approach renders my slides to be passive like PowerPoint but lot more aesthetic in look&feel. I tried to do this better but in vain. Any sugggestions?</p>
<p>4. Nowadays, I am pushing people to download Squeak and load my projects. But it is difficult to move corporate people from Windows/Mac's native applicaitons and freelancers from Adobe Flash/Photoshop.</p><p>But I must say that I have been sticking to Squeak as my authoring platform. I take notes using workspace and export it as txt files for further use. I use stack morphs to develop story boards (I am a writer, specialising in technology and economy.)</p>
<p>This may be too low-level for people on this mail-list. Please forgive me. If you have ideas for me, I will be grateful. (I intend to do some serious programming in the days to come. I have programmed in Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, C , Basic and used DBase IV and FoxBase. This is all between 1989 to 1994.)</p>
<p>Regards,<br>Prashanth Hebbar<br></p><p></p><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/5/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Rothwell</b> <<a href="mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com">r.j.rothwell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've been seeing some messages fly by about people using Squeak like "Smart Paper." What is meant by this? Using the various presentation morphs and just projects and workspaces for a more visual, dynamic, note taking system? <br>
<br>Could anyone give examples of how they are using Squeak just as a general tool, not necessarily for programming per se, if this is the correct way to interpret this?<br><br>Just looking for uses I am not recognizing...<br>
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<br>Rob
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