Hi Nancy,

for the things you are currently doing, perhaps the image from 
Squeakland.org would be better suited. It has some nice preferences 
setup already. Of course, you can also enable these in the developer 
image:

Open the preferences panel (world menu - "help" section), click on 
"halos", and enable
	mouseOverHalos : puts up a halo as soon as the mouse is over a sketch 
or or other scripted object
	magicHalos : additionally, dims the halo to make it less obtrusive
	haloTransitions : makes the halo use fade-in and fade-out animations 
(very nice)

With these preferences enabled, you can use halos comfortably with only 
one mouse button for most tasks. Only when you need to bring up halos 
on special objects, you have to press the Cmd modifier (Alt on PC). My 
son loves the magic halos ;-)

-- Bert 

Am Dienstag, 08.07.03 um 07:29 Uhr schrieb Nancy Head:

> Thanks, Ned...
>
> I figured out how to make this work :)
>
> I have only 2 mouse buttons (Dell Latitude; W2k pro) and the 
> right-click
> doesn't bring up the halos. I went into the mouse control panel, 
> though, and
> set the right-click to act as a middle-click. I then indeed did get the
> halos when right-clicking. Thanks for pointing out that an easy 
> one-click
> halo is a current option with the proper mouse or setting.
>
>>> I find it cumbersome to
>>> "alt-click." Any chance of making this a "right-click," or perhaps
>>> adding a toggle switch to go into "handles mode" or something where
>>> a simple "click" on an object will bring up its handles
>>
>> This may already work. What do your other mouse buttons do for you? On
>> my Windows system, the middle mouse button brings up the halos.
>> Though it may be the right mouse button on your system.
>>
>>
>
> Nancy
>
>