[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-623) Different help text in Flap and Catalog

Bert Freudenberg (JIRA) tracker at squeakland.org
Mon Dec 7 17:58:36 EST 2009


Different help text in Flap and Catalog
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                 Key: SQ-623
                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-623
             Project: squeakland
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: etoys
            Reporter: Bert Freudenberg


Some objects are both in the Object Catalog and a Flap.  "GetTextExporter2 listAllHelp" shows differences in the help bubbles between these entries (after replacing a faulty #fourth with #last). Having two versions of these help texts is not good, at the very least it puts more burden on translators. Here are the differences in 4.0:


Name: All Scripts
O: A tool allowing you to monitor and change the status of all scripts in your project
F: A tool that lets you control all the running scripts in your world

Name: Book
O: Multi-page structures
F: A multi-paged structure

Name: Button
O: A button to use with tile scripting; its script will be a method of its containing playfield
F: A Scriptable button

Name: Clock
O: An analog clock face
F: A simple digital clock

Name: Curve
O: A smooth wiggly curve, or a curved solid.  Shift-click to get handles and move the points.  Using the halo menu, can be coverted into a polygon, and can be made "open" rather than closed.
F: A curve

Name: Ellipse
O: An elliptical or circular shape
F: An ellipse or circle

Name: Holder
O: A place for storing alternative pictures in an animation, ec.
F: A place for storing alternative pictures in an animation, etc.

Name: Lasso
O: Drop this icon to grab a patch from the screen with a lasso.
F: Make a new "Sketch" by "lassoing" an area of the screen

Name: NextPage
O: A button which, when clicked, takes the reader to the next page of a book
F: A button that takes you to the next page

Name: Paint
O: Drop this icon to start painting a new object.
F: Drop this into an area to start making a fresh painting there

Name: Players
O: A tool showing all the players in your project
F: A tool listing all the scripted objects in the project.

Name: Polygon
O: A series of connected line segments, which may be a closed solid, or a zig-zag line.  Shift-click to get handles and move the points.
F: A straight-sided figure with any number of sides

Name: PreviousPage
O: A button which, when clicked, takes the reader to the previous page of a book
F: A button that takes you to the previous page

Name: Rectangle
O: A rectangular shape, with border and fill style
F: A rectangle

Name: Scrolling Text
O: A scrollable, editable body of text
F: Holds any amount of text; has a scroll bar

Name: Slider
O: A scriptable control that allows you to choose a numeric value by dragging a knob.
F: A slider for showing and setting numeric values.

Name: Star
O: A symmetrical polygon in the shape of a star
F: A star

Name: Text
O: A raw piece of text which you can edit into anything you want
F: Text that you can edit into anything you desire.

Name: Trash
O: a tool for discarding objects
F: A tool for discarding objects

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