[Squeakland] RE : Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?

[Peace Jerome]

Hi Pierre-André

Thank you for your response.

That is useful to know. Apparently the option needs to
be on sometimes and off sometimes. So it needs to stay
separate from other options.

Yours in service, Jerome Peace

--- Dreyfuss Pierre-André (EDU)
<pierre-andre.dreyfuss at edu.ge.ch> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> it is easy to remove or set the mouseover Halo.
> 
> Either using world menu :   player options...
> uncheck mouse-over halo
> 
> or red hallo of world :   player options... uncheck
> mouse-over halo.
> 
> The second way is working with any playfield, you
> can this way add mouse-over halo just for a
> playfield.
> 
> 
> Uncheked mouse-over halo is needed if you want to
> use mouse enter or mouse leave for a script.
>   
> best regards
> 
> -------- Message d'origine--------
> De: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org de la part de
> Peace Jerome
> Date: mer. 13/09/2006 22:51
> À: Kim Rose
> Cc: squeakland at squeakland.org
> Objet : Re: [Squeakland] Can we remove the
> mouseOverHalo option?
>  
> Hi Kim,
> 
> Thank you for your quick response.
> 
> 
> [Squeakland] Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?
> >Kim Rose kim.rose at squeakland.org 
> >Tue Sep 12 05:18:25 PDT 2006 wrote: 
> >
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Hi, Jerome -
> >This preference was created especially for
> childrens'
> use and is 
> >quite helpful to kids first learning to work with
> sketches and 
> >manipulating them via the handles in the halo.
> 
> Ok. That's what I was looking for.
> 
> >  Is there a reason  that merely opting *not* to
> use
> this preference
> > and saving an image this way will not suffice your
> need?
> 
> I didn't ask my question with a wish to eliminate
> the
> feature. I wanted to find out who its customers
> were.
> I also wanted to find out who spoke for those
> customers. Now that I have the follow-on question
> becomes:
> 
> If you could have things anyway you wanted them how
> would you want them?
> Why do mouseOverHalos only affect sketch morphs?
> What makes scketch morphs special to the children?
> 
> The other way to eliminate the preference is to find
> out if anybody (on the squeakdev side) cares if it
> is
> always on.
> 
> Which brings me to the point I can address your
> question.  The number of prefences in squeak has
> grown
> so great that maintaining squeak by testing all the
> combinations is not possible. Any option eliminated
> cuts the task in half. So I am exploring that.
> 
> If you'll remember the request the inventor of the
> chess made of the king. A how the king realized it
> would be easier to cut off the inventors head than
> place twice the number of grains on each successive
> square of the board. You will have some idea of the
> maintainence issues involved. :-)  
> >
> >Certainly for the "Squeak" image (vs. the
> "Squeakland" image) this 
> >may not be problemmatic as we advise any teacher,
> parent or child 
> >using Squeak to make eToys to use the "Squeakland
> image" which has 
> >this option.
> >  -- Kim
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace



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