[etoys-dev] Tile and Object questions ( was Re: Resubscribed)

[karl ramberg]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin
<mokurai at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Bert. Now back to documenting Etoys. I have started working on
> the Common Tiles and Menu Items chapter and the Objects chapter of the
> reference manual.
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/
>
> Some of the work is straightforward, but there are some objects
> plaintively marked
>
> TBD VOLUNTEER NEEDED TO WRITE THIS SECTION
>
> which I take to mean that nobody on the project so far understands the
> purpose or workings of those objects. Arrow Editor and Attachment
> Adjuster, for starters. I was able to discover some of how Arrow
> Editor works to create character morphs in a selection of fonts, but
> the rest remains opaque to my explorations.
>
> There are apparently more menus than are documented.

Many of these objects are quite obscure and could very well be out of
view for most users.
ArrowEditor brings my image into a MNU: scaleAndTranslateToFitInside:
I have not tested AttachmentAdjuster.

I think the Kedama particle system is more valuable to document.

Karl
>
> On Wed, September 12, 2012 11:18 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 2012-09-12, at 07:28, Edward Mokurai Cherlin <mokurai at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you see my signature block correctly now?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशबॠदगरॠज/نشبدگرج)
>>> Cherlin
>>
>> Yes, it now comes UTF-8 encoded. You can check for yourself in the
>> archive:
>>
>>       http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2012-September/007403.html
>>
>> - Bert -
>
> --
> Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin
> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
>
>
> --
> Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin
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> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
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