On 1/23/07, Alan Kay alan.kay@squeakland.org wrote:
Hi Steven --
What you are trying to do is not Etoys, but to do something in Squeak Smalltalk using one of its graphics systems (called Morphic). Etoys is a UI that rides on top of Squeak Smalltalk. Its objects are called "Players" and the associated graphics of a player is called its "costume". Using Squeak Smalltalk, you can talk to the costume of a player by saying "self costume blah blah", where blah blah is a message that morphs understand.
Hi Alan, thanks for the answer. I think I actually do want EToys because I want my objects to be generically scriptable using tiles. That example I asked about was chosen because it's something I already know how to do in squeak :-). It's not the actual project, just a learning exercise.
Regards, Steve