Interactive Story Question

Raymond raymondasselin at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 7 01:50:07 UTC 2003


> I'm continuing my work on creating an Interactive Story.  I've played with the 
> BookMorph/StackMorph and they don't quite fit my needs.  I'm currently looking 
> at the GeeMailMorph...  but I'm still not too sure if it will do what I'm 
> trying to do.  What am I trying to do?  Well, it sounds quite simple - but I 
> haven't had much luck up to this point, so here goes:  I'd like to create a 
> scrollable text box.  Within the text there will be keywords that when clicked, 
> open an interactive exercise.  

In GeeMailMorph you can insert a morph in the text (grab and drop) so if this morph is a button
labelled as your keywords, I think it will work (you'll have to test it).  By the way, 
when you say keywords are you talking as a librarian or a smalltalker ?

Ideally, the activities will lie invisible and 
> simply become visible when the appropriate keyword is clicked.  It would be 
> ideal to have the activities drag-able so students can move the windows where 
> they want.  My questions are - if I create an exercise of some sort, how should 
> I be saving it so that it can be opened in the manner described above. 

 >I've 
> looked at ProjectView, but can I have the project open in a window instead of 
> taking over the whole screen?  

Yes, if you click on a ProjectView and staypressed you'll see a menu  'Enter active' try it.

My goal is to have the textbox centered in the 
> screen, with the interactive exercises surrounding the textbox.  Can anyone 
> offer some advice or suggestions?

These were just few ideas.




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