Etoy issues

[Bob Arning]

Jahanzeb

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 04:57:20 -0800 Jahanzeb Sherwani <jahanzeb at lums.edu.pk> wrote:
>>Well, you can try turning on the preference 'universalTiles' which make tile 
>>programming look a bit more like programming and a little less like tiles. 
>>This may be hard to back out of, so don't do it if you need to get back to 
>>where you started without quitting and restarting Squeak.
>
>Could you tell me where I can find these preferences? I looked and looked
>but have no idea where they could be.


world menu/help/preferences, then go to the scripting section.

>Also, when in 'show code textually' mode, how do I save what I've written?
>I tried doing alt-s which asked me for my initials, and then it seemed to
>work. However, on reverting to tile mode, it said it would lose the changes
>it made. I assume this means that there is no way of getting back to tile
>mode with the changes updated (even though the change might have been
>simply changing a value from say 5 to 10). You'd said "Once you start
>changing a script (method in normal Squeak parlance) textually, it's best
>to stay in text mode for that script" but from what I can see, you don't
>really have a choice, you HAVE to stay in text mode. Am I correct?

Looks that way. I thought I remembered otherwise, but since converting the text to tiles might not be possible, the only reliable option is to go to the last tile version when you want to see tiles again.

Cheers,
Bob