Another Morphic Tutorial

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Tue Apr 17 02:11:39 UTC 2001


Dan --

Anyone who writes a really good tutorial (or any other documentation) 
can use any terminology they like!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 4:06 PM -0700 4/16/01, Dan Shafer wrote:
>How important is it, Alan, for those of us writing tutorials and other docs to
>use this same terminology, in your view? I mean, is this really 
>important stuff
>that has a lot of thought behind it that we shouldn't disturb or 
>should we feel
>free to re-think it?
>
>--- Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com> wrote:
>>  As Josh pointed out, the comments use the internal SqC terminology
>>  for these. We call the constellation of colored circles a "halo", and
>>  the colored circles themselves are called "handles".
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>>  ------
>>
>>  At 10:19 AM -0700 4/15/01, Andrew P. Black wrote:
>>  >Re: Terminology.
>>  >At 17:41 +0100 2001.04.15, John Hinsley wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  > I called the entire surrounding pantheon of icons a halo but I
>>  >>think Squeakers
>>  >>>  generally call each of the buttons surrounding the selected
>>  >>>object a halo. I'm
>>  >>>  not sure it matters _too_ much but in tutorials we probably ought
>>  >>>to agree on
>>  >>>  the terminology.
>>  >>
>>  >>Yes. Any ideas for what to call the collection of halos? A cluster of
>>  >>halos? A hoopla of halos? A holy of halos?
>>  >
>>  >I think that the whole collection of colored blobs should be called
>>  >a halo.  After all, this is close to the accepted meaning of the
>>  >term in English.  What then to call each of the colored blobs?  How
>>  >about "buttons"?
>>  >
>>  >Sometime you can avoid using a word at all, by just saying something
>>  >like: bring up the Morphic halo on foo, and click the purple
>>  >eyedropper.
>>  >
>>  >	Andrew
>>
>
>
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