[squeak-dev] Etoys in 2017?

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 10:01:10 UTC 2017


On 1/29/17, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:11 PM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> In 2016 Etoys was merged back into the trunk image.
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6419
>>
>> How do I open an Etoys project in the current 6.0a development image?
>>
>
> You simply drop it in. E.g. download this project
> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/Content/ExampleEtoys/CarAndPen.014.pr

This works fine. It creates a subproject 'CarAndPen'. Deprecation
warnings pop up because of the Preferences changes caused by the new
user interfaces themes. See separate thread.

--Hannes


>
>> What is the status of it currently? Is it ready for limited use?
>>
>
> The trunk image is ready for experimenting, but not for use with students.
> Tim Felgentreff built an image based on trunk that they actually used for
> an online course at HPI in Potsdam:
>
> https://open.hpi.de/courses/etoys2016/
>
> That image contains quite a few hacks, including one that makes it use
> German by default. You can download it here:
>
> https://open.hpi.de/files/4d6e04cd-d3fc-4c73-865a-571cd4ef27e8
>
> You could help by porting some stuff from that image to trunk. I imagine
> having an "Etoys" entry in the "open" menu that would create a new morphic
> project and set up the preferences suitable for Etoys. That would it make
> way easier to experiment and fix stuff that is still broken.
>
> - Bert -
>


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