GeeMail hints? Naming Projects?

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Wed Sep 27 15:22:08 UTC 2000


Hi Mark,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:41:53 -0400 Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>In GeeMail yesterday, I found that I could link a morph and a text 
>selection with a menu item on the morph.  After the 53 (count 'em!) 
>updates, I no longer have those menu items. 

If you get the red menu for the morph in question, about 2/3 of the way down is GeeMail stuff... submenu. If you don't have that submenu, the morph in question is not owned by the TextPlusPasteUpMorph which is the playfield which holds everything in the GeeMail.

>I note that morphs 
>naturally stick where you put them -- does it just use physical 
>proximity?  

Yes, a recent addition - morphs dropped into the GeeMail are automatically linked to the line of text at the vertical location of their drop point. 

>(This is reminding me of MediaText -- just need the line! 
>:-)  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/edtech/MediaText.html

Oh my! Certainly looks similar.

>Also, what's the easiest way to name projects?  I used to just change 
>the title in the SystemWindow containing the project, but that's 
>harder to do now from MVC.  Now, I open up a change sorter and name 
>it from there, but there must be a simpler way.

There is, for morphic anyway. EToyProjectRenamerMorph is displayed when publishing a project named 'Unnamed...' or containing questionable characters in the name.

Cheers,
Bob





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