[Squeakland] Hello all !

John Voiklis jv37 at columbia.edu
Wed May 21 00:44:05 PDT 2003


Hello Ned,

While I am sure others have done so privately, I thought it would be good if
someone publicly welcomed your presence and proposals to Squeakland.

I look forward to your contributions,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org
[mailto:squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org]On Behalf Of Ned Konz
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:01 PM
To: squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: [Squeakland] Hello all !


Greetings everyone,

I've just joined the Squeakland list.

I'm not exactly new to Squeak (I post a lot on the Squeak-dev list),
but I haven't done much with educational applications of Squeak.

I'm going to be playing with a few things in the near future that
might interest you:

* I'm going to publish a new version of the SARInstaller for 3.2 that
will let you load a variety of projects that are available on
SqueakMap. In particular, I'm doing this because there has been some
interest in using my Connectors package in the Squeakland environment
(which is based on a 3.2 image). Connectors lets you make connected
drawings using any Morphs; the connections will follow the Morphs as
they are moved around. I've used the Squeakland plugin and the
Project Pages feature of the Comanche ComSwiki 1.2 to make live
shareable drawings in a Swiki. It works great, and is lots of fun.

* I will probably add some kind of gesture recognition to the eToys
system. I think I'll make it so you can make a script run when a
particular pen/tablet/mouse gesture has been drawn starting at a
Morph that uses that Player. I've been working with Nathanael Schärli
(who wrote the Genie gesture recognition system that's in Squeak) and
we've made a number of improvements.

* I'm interested in adding eToys support to my Connectors to let
people learn about (for instance) graph algorithms using live
drawings. At least, I'd add a vocabulary that would let you query and
modify the Morphs at either end of a Connector, as well as to let
Morphs report their incoming and outgoing connections. I may make
these sets of connections work like Holders of some sort, I'm not
sure (I'm not really sure how to handle the cursor and display of
these).

* I'd also like to come up with a version of eToys that is scriptable
using some combination of statecharts and tile scripting.

Anyhow, I'm pretty new to this, and if you have any interest in any of
these, or any ideas, let's discuss them!

Thanks,
--
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE


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