[squeakland] World menu

[karl ramberg]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:47 AM,  <mokurai at earthtreasury.org> wrote:
> I have discovered by trying many combinations that alt-shift-w brings up
> the World menu in Etoys on Ubuntu. I have added that and some other
> information to
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/
>
> and I am about to add the keyboard shortcuts for the XO. (I have two of
> them, which I have named Thing1 and Thing2.)...First pass, done now.
>
> Apparently I now know how to apply all that I know of Squeak (not a lot,
> but increasing) within Etoys, by bringing up menus that allow me to bring
> up everything else.
>
> Is there a design document for Etoys explaining what its intention is? Am
> I right in thinking that it is meant to provide a greatly restricted
> programming environment on the surface, where only a few Squeak/Smalltalk
> objects and methods are available without going behind the scenes, chosen
> for younger children?

Squeak is the environment in which Etoys lives. While direct access to
Squeak is possible its of most interest to power user. Its not hard to
break the system running Squeak so access is made not easy to stumble
uppon. A broken system is quite disruptive to most lectures and
newbies.

Karl
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> Cherlin
> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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