[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Updated: (SQ-1013) button to show script

[Stephen Thomas (JIRA)]

     [ http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-1013?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stephen Thomas updated SQ-1013:
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    Attachment: Scriptor Show Hide.007.pr

Attached are some UI prototypes I was able to do in Etoys in under an hour.  Etoys Rocks!!!

Anyway, the first four pages show some different ways of solving the problem making scripts "visible/discoverable" without having your screen covered with scriptors all the time.

I also added a keyboard shortcut to show/hide all scripts at once (more accurately for pages 1-3, 5 <toggle scriptor visibility, with page 4 being a true show/hide.

Also page 5 has a technique which can be used today (other than the icons I left to toggle individual scripts) to solve the problem.  The solution is similar to Scratch's next gen Web interface (at least as far I recall, should find and look at this again).

> button to show script
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>                 Key: SQ-1013
>                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-1013
>             Project: squeakland
>          Issue Type: Feature
>            Reporter: Scott Wallace
>             Fix For: etoys 5.0
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>         Attachments: Script Collapse%0D.png, Scriptor Show Hide.007.pr, showScriptButton-sw.2.cs.gz
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> Adds 'button to show/hide this script' to the Scriptor menu.  When chosen, this will produce a button which, when pressed, will show the Scriptor -- or, if the Scriptor is already showing, hide it. The resulting button can subsequently be edited via its halo in the usual ways, e.g. to change the name, the color, the balloon help.
> AFAIK no one has been clamoring for this feature, but I believe that it would be found quite useful. Often we want to make it possible to reveal the inner workings of parts of a project.  For a small enough project, we often simply leave all the important Scriptors open on the screen at the same time, but this can lead to unwanted clutter, and past a certain project size this becomes impractical in any case. Buttons produced by this proposed feature will allow individual scripts to be "called up" easily for inspection, and as easily removed from view.

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