playing with Nebraska

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jun 30 22:34:10 UTC 2003


Here are some things you can glue together, once you have the efficient
remote interaction Nebraska gives you.

	1. You can give people flaps that live on the local machine, and let
them drag and drop things into and out of the shared world.

	2. Conversely, you can swap modes and have the shared stuff be in a
flap, for times when you are primarily working locally but want to have
a collaboration window available.

	3. You can have a large shared world that is scrollable, like the
original Kansas (in fact, the reason Kansas got its name).  This way
multiple people can really bump elbows.  :)

	4. You could set it up to display only, and thus have a very efficient
format for Squeak movies or Squeak streaming presentations.


There are also other nice things that could be done:

	1. NetworkTerminalMorph should have a border, so that you can interact
with it on the client.

	2. The password-handling code I posted a while ago should be integrated
into the main system.


Have a blast!  Nebraska is just one of a load of components in Squeak
that you can combine in lots of interesting ways.  A little bit of
programming can take you a long way, if you are programming in Squeak.


Lex



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