Well, there are quite a few books and tutorials. They are probably in 
your college library.

This project is pretty easy to do in the kids etoy part of Squeak. 
You might look at squeakland.org for examples of children's projects. 
Hint: exploring helps here.
      Each of the etoy scripts has event triggers, so it is easy to 
make up a little animation that makes a button go through the 
traditional rollover, down, and up behaviors. I just tried it and it 
took just a few minutes to make a typical button.
      The challenge in this project is to think of a simple way to 
handle the "signaling" of what a new button firing actually means to 
all of them. This is quite (almost anyway) independent of the 
language you are using. When you see how to do that, you will find it 
a matter of a minute or so to get the etoy system to do it.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:28 PM -0700 7/25/02, Lily Smith wrote:
>I am new to SmallTalk. I have to learn it because I have to take a
>class on
>SmallTalk.
>
>The major reason that why SmallTalk is way less popular as Microsoft VB
>is
>that SmallTalk lacks documentatation and a good tutorial. I know
>SmallTalk
>can do almost everything that VB can, but a newbie like me just don't
>know
>how to do it. It is not easy to find the correct class and method. Even
>if
>I am lucky enough to find it, I have to spend hours to learn how to use
>those methods. Few documentation and examples on the web are available.
>After several setbacks like this, people will probably give up and
>forget
>SmallTalk.
>
>One of my assignments was to add a radio button group and then deal
>with
>the user input. Even my teacher does not know how to implement a radio
>button group. He spent half an hour in class, trying to show us how to
>add
>a radio button group. He failed. Then he wanted us to complete that
>assignment ourselves. God! It is even difficult for a SmallTalk senior
>to
>find out something common! How can SmallTalk be popular? Look at how
>easy
>it is to add a radio button group in Microsoft VB!
>
>Well, it is just my complaint on this language. I hope SmallTalk geeks
>should come up with a very good tutorial book for SmallTalk newbies.
>Otherwise, it will never be popular.
>
>
>
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