[squeakland] World menu

[karl ramberg]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:51 AM,  <mokurai at earthtreasury.org> wrote:
> 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?

You can find all morphs that have additional morphic categories with
the MethodFinder : WorldMenu/Open/MethodFinder.

Search for "additionsTo"

Karl

>
> 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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> Edward Mokurai
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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.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
>
>