[Squeakland] New to Squeak - problems I'm having

[Mark Engelberg]

OK, last night I was surfing the web and discovered Squeak.  I
installed the Squeak plug-in (on Windows XP Professional, in Mozilla
Firefox 1.0.7), so that I could begin looking at the various
tutorials.

Here are some of the problems I've already encountered:

First, when clicking on the supplies tab at the bottom of the screen,
two rows of icons pop up.  The bottom row is about two-thirds off the
screen, making the icons difficult to recognize.

Second, when viewing several of the tutorials, many weird characters
seemed to be substituted for ordinary characters.  For example, the
dash character "-" was replaced by a capital N with a bar over it.

Third, whenever a window of text was formatted in a narrow column with
something to the right of it, the right edge of the text (about one
letter's worth) was cut off.

Fourth, in all of the tutorials containing a mixture of icons and
text, the icons were not located in the space allocated for them by
the text.  They were always shifted a bit.  Furthermore, if you tried
to drag them into the space allocated by the text, the icon wouldn't
quite fit (as if the text were a bit too small, or the icon a bit too
big).

Anyway, I like everything I've read so far about the promising
features of this language for kids, but these user interface issues
made a poor first impression.  Can anyone tell me what's going wrong
and how to fix it?

Thanks,

Mark Engelberg