[Squeakland] getting code from a .txt file into a script

[Scott Wallace]

I believe that this feature (i.e. that you can bring up the World 
menu by hitting the escape key) unintentionally found its way into 
Squeakland a couple of years ago.  This happened because the 
"eToyFriendly" work for the Squeakland system (which disables certain 
general Squeak features thought to be inappropriate for the etoy 
environment) had been completed much earlier, and was not revisited 
when the latest Squeakland system was built atop Squeak 3.2 in which 
the esc-brings-up-a-menu feature first appeared.

It's always been possible to bring up the World menu in Squeakland by 
hitting cmd-shift-W, a choice the teachers made years ago.  That 
avenue has the advantage that kids are not likely to invoke the magic 
key sequence by accident.

It would be interesting to hear from the community:  Have kids 
discovered this "esc" feature?  Is it in widespread use?  *Should* 
kids use it?  Or do you think it should be disabled in the Squeakland 
system?  Should there be a custom version of the "world" menu 
available that is more kid-friendly and less overwhelming?

Cheers,

  -- Scott

At 9:43 AM -0600 3/23/04, Mitchell, David [CC] wrote:
>
>Excellent! Perhaps it escapes the safety net of Squeakland?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org on behalf of Markus Gaelli
>Sent:   Tue 3/23/2004 9:36 AM
>To:     squeakland at squeakland.org
>Cc:    
>Subject:        Re: [Squeakland] getting code from a .txt file into a script
>
>Am Dienstag, 23.03.04 um 16:25 Uhr schrieb Mitchell, David [CC]:
>
>>  Middle-click on the desktop to show the halos.
>>  Click the menu halo (red) to show the world menu.
>>  Click "desktop menu..." to show (another, different) world menu.
>>
>Some weeks ago I found out that you could also press the escape key to
>open the world menu.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Markus
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