And if you do what Marcus suggests in the opposite order (bring up 
thread of all projects before selecting "create a new thread") the 
new thread will lie on top of the all projects sorter to make it easy 
to select projects.
     Several other features and wrinkles:
     * you can click on the toggle at the top of a sorter to get 
copies of the thumbnails if you wish (useful when you want to "come 
back" to a project several times in your sequence).
     * you can click on the picture of a project at the top of a 
sorter to get a new project (it will prompt you for a name, etc., and 
then give you a blank thumbnail on the cursor that you can drop into 
the sorter). This is very useful when you are making up a talk and 
you don't have all the projects done yet that you need. The sorter 
now acts as a planner.
     * you can go to any project in the sorter by doing a shft-clik on 
its thumbnail (it will bring the InternalThreadNavigatorMorph along 
with it).
     * When you say OK you will be prompted for a name (it does this 
each time). If you say "cancel" it will wipe out what you did in that 
session and disappear that version of the InternalThreadNav. I always 
say OK.
     * The ITN's menu has some useful features, including various 
kinds of jumps within the thread (first project in thread, last 
project, within the projects: shows a menu of all the projects in the 
thread, etc.) At the top of this menu is a list of the Threads so 
far, and it will convert your ITN into any thread and back again.
     * The thumbnails know the URLs of their projects if the projects 
have been published to a server. So you can stream an entire talk by 
putting all the projects to a server and directing the viewer to get 
the first project of your talk. If this project has the ITN for the 
entire talk, then hitting the next button on it will cause the other 
projects to be downloaded one by one. (So the ITN is a handy thing to 
mail around.)

If you find the EventRecorderMorph then you will have a way to record 
both your gestures and your voice over. You can get a demo button 
from this to put in each project so you can put an entire lecture 
with demos on a server. (But speech files are still pretty large -- 
you might be better with just the gesture demos plus a text of your 
remarks put in a flap.)

Bob Arning did the nifty ITN and Dan Ingalls did the EventRecorderMorph.

Cheers,

Alan


At 12:12 PM +0200 7/18/01, Marcus Denker wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:55:04AM +0200, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>
>>  My question: How do I create a new thread? There is a menu for this. It
>>  opens a project sorter with just the thumbnail of the projet I'm in.
>>  What do I do then?
>>
>>
>That´s simple: Just bring up both a sorter for the new thread
>(select "create a new thread") and a thread of all projects
>("create thread of all projects"). Then drag and drop the projects
>you want into your new thread. check the "parts bin" box to get
>copies, if you want to add a project more than once.
>
>          Marcus


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