[squeakland] World menu

mokurai at earthtreasury.org mokurai at earthtreasury.org
Sat Sep 8 23:51:28 EDT 2012


Just so. This Reference Manual is aimed at the power user. Among other
things, I am trying to learn how to use Squeak development to add
facilities to Etoys.

I am still looking for documents that explain Etoys for the classroom
teacher and the student without going behind them into Squeak development.
I have found many that begin to explain parts of Etoys, but nothing that I
consider satisfactory. For example, nothing that systematically explains
what tiles are available for Etoys programming, and the places to find
them. I know about

Object viewers
The gold chest
The function menus in some tiles

Are there more?

On Sat, September 8, 2012 9:16 am, karl ramberg wrote:
> 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.
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Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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