I meant "what else are you trying to do?".  Many easy things can be 
done in the children's authoring environment, but not all escalations 
with work.

If you bring in a picture, get its "halo of handles" by cmd-click 
(alt-click on a PC) you will get its "viewer". If you move your 
picture around with the mouse you will see the x and y properties 
changing in the viewer. It is easy to make scripts that manipulate 
these properties by dragging out tiles from the viewer and dropping 
them on the desktop and then into the scripts that appear. E.g. drag 
the "x" property from the "<-" and drop it on the desktop, this will 
make a script.

There is more information about all this at 
http://www.squeakland.org, including an almost finished tutorial.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 3:02 PM +0200 7/28/01, Frantisek Fuka wrote:
>Alan Kay wrote:
>
>>This sounds as though it can be done in the children's authoring 
>>environment -- and very quickly. Tell me more....
>
>
>Sorry, I have no idea what "children's authoring environment" is. 
>Also, I don't know what more to tell you. I think I outlined the 
>problem quite clearly.
>
>
>
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