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

[Ricardo Moran]

Hi,

I've made the following dialog using the PropertiesMorph as suggested.

[image: NewVariableDialog.png]

It opens by default when clicking on the "add new variable" button. I think
this solution is better than the two modal dialogs and it also makes the
different slot types a little more visible.

I attached a change set if you want to test it.

Cheers,
Richo

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>wrote:

> This would be easy to do and it would be a great improvement, but I don't
> think this dialog should be open by request. If I understood correctly, the
> problem that originated this issue was that the slot types other than
> #Number were difficult to find, so hiding this dialog won't solve it.
>
> Cheers,
> Richo
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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]
>>>
>>
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> Maybe we should use the PropertiesMorphs for this ?
>>
>> Also some of the variable types have additional spec
>> Number and Point have 'decimal places...'
>> Player have 'tiles to get...' ( I'm not really familiar with this)
>>
>> After reading Scotts mail I think this dialog should be presented by
>> request, not by default.
>> And that we bypass the 'FillInTheBlank' naming of variable in the first
>> place ?
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>>>> 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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