Hello everyone, as a newbie here I have one or two queries that I need help with. Firstly, although the halo dots appear when I click + Alt + Shift on the desktop, the balloon help text does not. Balloon text does appear on hovering the mouse cursor over menu item though. This is after a fresh install of version 5.2 (Squeak5.2-18229-64bit-201810190412-Linux) on a Ubuntu virtual machine.
The halo feature looks useful, but at the moment is unworkable since the lack of balloon help makes the dots unreadable. Perhaps someone could point me to a solution?
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Hi, Chris
Welcome to Squeak (in no way official tho ;-)
5.1 is the last version that has Ballon Help on Halos. At http://ftp.squeak.org/5.1/ you can get it as a first step.
I cced this to the dev list, as I personally consider it a bug which is present on 5.2 and 5.3.
Cheers,
Herbert
Am 07.10.2019 um 16:52 schrieb mechanic:
Hello everyone, as a newbie here I have one or two queries that I need help with. Firstly, although the halo dots appear when I click + Alt + Shift on the desktop, the balloon help text does not. Balloon text does appear on hovering the mouse cursor over menu item though. This is after a fresh install of version 5.2 (Squeak5.2-18229-64bit-201810190412-Linux) on a Ubuntu virtual machine.
The halo feature looks useful, but at the moment is unworkable since the lack of balloon help makes the dots unreadable. Perhaps someone could point me to a solution?
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Thanks for that info., Herbert. I'm still trying to work around various information sources on squeak, it'a not helped by a lot of out of date info being out there. I'll try your suggested version later.
What are the group's suggested information sources for beginners - particularly setup details, as the Smalltalk language itself is well-covered elsewhere? I have an old copy of 'Smalltalk, Objects and Design' which was the recommended text for beginners some years ago.
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