My First Doc Contribution

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Mon Apr 9 19:38:21 UTC 2001



John Hinsley wrote:
> 
> Dan Shafer wrote:
> >
> > I have just uploaded to the Swiki my first contribution to Squeak docs, a
> > probably over-long tutorial on how to build a simple project entirely using
> > direct-manipulation Morphic techniques.
> >
> 
> Thanks Dan
> 
> I got it going after about 3 hours (the first direct manipulation morph
> I've done, and only the second morph).
> 
> I'm not entirely sure, but I think most of the problems I had with it
> were either down to my using 2.8 (it's written for 3.0) (can anyone
> comment? has Morphic been improved in 3.0?) -- I found duplicating the
> buttons easy enough, but all kinds of wierd stuff seemed to happen when
> I tried to duplicate the scripts -- either the messages would appear
> disconnected or to conflict, or by following some of your more
> experimental suggestions and finding I had no idea of how to get back
> other than exiting and going back to the last save.

I think it's related to not being able to copy Players with
veryDeepCopy in 2.8. That among other stuff is fixed in version 3.

Karl





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