Hi, Ned.

Besides GeeMail, another good place to assemble content like this is 
a "Playfield", a.k.a. PasteUpMorph.  Get one from the Supplies Flap, 
make it the size and color you want it, round its corners, etc., then 
just drop things onto it and edit away.

To put textual content into it, grab a "Text for Editing" from the 
Supplies flap and place it on the playfield.  Resize the text morph 
as desired, then proceed to author your text.  You may want one 
continuous TextMorph or it may suit your purposes to have multiple 
ones.  You might want use a BookMorph (each of whose pages is after 
all a Playfield) to organize your content.

By using the "avoid occlusions" feature in the text, you can actually 
have your explanatory text flow around the live single-preference 
button.

A Preference button would not normally stop working just because one 
placed it in a book.  As long as it's visible, it will be alive. 
This was perhaps just a problem with GeeMail.

   -- Scott


At 6:08 PM -0800 2/6/01, Ned Konz wrote:
>On Tuesday 06 February 2001 14:29, Scott Wallace wrote:
>>  Of course you could also use the green halo-handle to tear off a
>>  little labeled single-preference-control button from the panel, for
>>  any preference.
>>
>>  You could put such little mini-controls right in the midst of your
>>  explanations, and the user could toggle the preference in place right
>>  there without any select/evaluate circumlocution.
>
>How would you recommend doing something like this?
>
>This didn't seeem to work when I dropped them into a Workspace; the text
>scrolled but the button stayed where it was. (I dropped a duplicate of the
>AlignmentMorph containing both the button and the text).
>
>I tried a GeeMailMorph, and this seemed to work, but when I told to the
>GeeMailMorph to become a book, the button no longer worked.