[Squeakland] rubberbanded sibling problem

[Scott Wallace]

Hi, Randy, and all,

Thanks for this observation.

Our thinking has been that inadvertent use, which would have  
mysterious consequences, would be much more likely than any intended  
use.  Therefore, a sibling (or multiple siblings) can only be created  
for a single object at a time, and thus we never allow the user to  
create siblings from the halo of a "rubber-band" multiple selection.

Formerly, the "siblings" submenu was still available in the halo-menu  
for a multiple-selection, but that got fixed earlier this year.

The remaining issue here was that the balloon-help for the green halo- 
handle of a multiple selection mistakenly still claimed that if you  
held down the shift key you could get siblings rather than copies.   
This has now been fixed by etoys2.1 update 1583fixDupHelpMsg.

Cheers,

   -- Scortt


On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:

> I painted objects A then B (different objects).  I then used the
> shift-click rubberband feature to select them both and then created a
> sibling of those selected objects.  Script A1 just did a 'turn by' on
> A.  Script A2 did a 'tell all siblings to do A1'.  The latter didn't
> work.  It did work on an explicitly created sibling of obj A.
>
> -Randy
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