BookMorph size and printing

Gary McGovern garywork at lineone.net
Sat Sep 22 20:40:41 UTC 2001


From: "Bob Arning" <arning at charm.net>


> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:20:02 +0100 "Gary McGovern" <garywork at lineone.net>
wrote:
> >I have to look more at that. To be honest I don't like two way scrolls at
> >all. I'd prefer a trackball or joystick to maneuvre a large page and a
> >couple of buttons that could extend the width or height of a page. It
would
> >make an odd book but.... What do you think of that idea, if there was a
> >trackball/joystick and buttons in the control panel ?
>
> Gary,
>
> You might want to look at the StoryboardBookMorph for an example of such
controls.
>

Thanks Bob,
That gives me something to work on.

>From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>

> And also look at Balloon3D and the Alice environment to see how an
> environment of unlimited size can be set up. (It's pretty >easy)

I'm really interested to make some progress on this. I've spent a couple of
hours with those packages and haven't come up with anything that comes close
Can you give a bit more away ? (I've not found it easy but it makes some
other things seem easy :-) ).

Thanks!

Regards,
Gary





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