[Squeakland] pen trail as object (in OLPC)

Scott Wallace scott.wallace at squeakland.org
Tue Sep 11 03:10:30 PDT 2007


Hi, Randy,

You've got to be at update level 1610 or later to see the changes.

If you're operating with "eToyFriendly" turned on, hit cmd-shift-W to  
get the "world" menu, where you're then find the familiar "help"  
submenu that will allow you to load updates.


Cheers,

  -- Scott


On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I'm not following you.  First, I *think* I've updated my latest  
> image, but that itself seems more challenging than the old etoys  
> (where, I seem to recall, there was a 'help' in the main menu that  
> would update from the server).  Now, it seems, I use the main menu  
> to go to the Prefs where I can set 'updateFromServerAtStartup'.   
> Regardless, I'm now using etoys2.1 #1565
>
> However, when I open the "pen trails" category of a playfield's  
> viewer like you say, all I see are tiles for clear, lift, lower,  
> and trailStyle.  Nothing that would seem to help me turn the pen  
> trails into objects.
>
> -Randy
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Scott Wallace wrote:
>
>> Hi, Randy,
>>
>> Load updates in an eToys2.1 image, then look in the "pen trails"  
>> category of a playfield's viewer...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   -- Scott
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Randy Heiland wrote:
>>
>>> I was revisiting this issue - wanting to have my drawn pen trail  
>>> become an object, and I dug up this post:
>>> http://article.gmane.org/ 
>>> gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.squeakland/869
>>>
>>> Are these directions still basically true for the OLPC etoys,  
>>> i.e. do I need to resort to writing a textual script?
>>>
>>> thanks, Randy
>>>
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