My First Doc Contribution

Dan Shafer dshafer at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 10 17:15:46 UTC 2001


--- Raymond Tiefenthal <r.tiefenthal at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> when I read your tutorial announcement, it was to me like 'wow, the first
> tutorial/doc since 1997'. Not sure about that date. Anyway. Thank you for
> your work, it was a good introduction into scripting for me.

Thanks for the kind words.

> On documentation in general:
> The 'browsing through the code' approach is really helpfull, even essential,
> and I've learned quite a bit that way. But my notion is: Essays for the big
> picture, tutorials to get started, browsing for the details. And those
> essays and tutorials are what I'm missing (preferably live, you know,
> 'active essays' etc.).
>
Yeah, we're on the same page here.

> >(No need to embed it. For reasons I don't fully understand, BasicButton
> objects automatically >embed into the containers you place them in.)
> 
> PaseUpMorphs have drag and drop enabled (access via menu or 'morph
> enableDragNDrop: true/false'), that's why they embed automatically, which is
> the default behaviour. Every morph has this capability.

Now I have to revisit this issue. Seems like it may not be necessary to
explicitly embed the text, either, though it sure _seemed_ necessary when I was
building the thing!



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