On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Scott Wallace scott.wallace@squeakland.orgwrote:
Better, arguably, is to give a newly-launched variable a default name and a default value-type, and then also make it more straightforward and inviting to change the name and change the value-type, without needing to fish in menus.
Agreed. Something like: [image: AddVariable I.png]
or
[image: AddVariable II.png]
We did that a while ago in an internal vpri fork: add-variable gives you a variable with a default name and a value-type already provided; when and if desired, click on the variable name and text-edit to rename the variable; click on a little "value-type" icon to the right of the name to get a list of value-type choices. No modal roadblocks to getting started, no fishing in menus to make changes.
This improves the work-flow of add-a-variable quite a bit, and might be a good thing for squeakland as well. However, it's probably too late in the development cycle of the imminent release to make such a change…
Ideally we would have a group of kids we who could help test these ideas.
I don't see a problem with waiting at this point.
Stephen