[squeak-dev] open paren/brace/bracket...

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Apr 17 23:52:01 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:42:19PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> On 17-04-2014, at 4:27 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On second thought, maybe it's not such a bad idea ... I bet Tim could
> > do an animated squeaky mouse morph (after all, the eyes are already working).
> > We could have it detect typing activity, then scurry around the insertion
> > cursor leaving little mouse droppings that turn into syntax suggestions.
> > We might need to make it a preference though ;-)
> 
> Sadly I can?t claim great expertise in making animate morphy-things.
> Getting the damn things to just lay out where I want them and stay there
> is *quite* exciting enough, thank you.
>

That's not a show stopper. Having the animated thing hop around and position
itself unexpectedly is exactly the behaviour I had in mind. We will want
sound effects of course, particularly in the case of keyboard input that
triggers a lint rule exception.

Dave
 


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