[etoys-dev] Etoys: Etoys-Richo.103.mcz

[Steve Thomas]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Scott Wallace
<scott.wallace at squeakland.org>wrote:

> Better, arguably, is to give a newly-launched variable a default name and
> a default value-type, and then also make it more straightforward and
> inviting to change the name and change the value-type, without needing to
> fish in menus.
>
Agreed. Something like:
[image: AddVariable I.png]

or

[image: AddVariable II.png]

>
> We did that a while ago in an internal vpri fork: add-variable gives you a
> variable with a default name and a value-type already provided; when and if
> desired, click on the variable name and text-edit to rename the variable;
> click on a little "value-type" icon to the right of the name to get a list
> of value-type choices.  No modal roadblocks to getting started, no fishing
> in menus to make changes.
>
> This improves the work-flow of add-a-variable quite a bit, and might be a
> good thing for squeakland as well.  However, it's probably too late in the
> development cycle of the imminent release to make such a change…

Ideally we would have a group of kids we who could help test these ideas.

I don't see a problem with waiting at this point.

Stephen
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