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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