Hi,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve made the following dialog using the PropertiesMorph as suggested.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_135630be67bbfe48" alt="NewVariableDialog.png" title="NewVariableDialog.png"></div>

<div><br></div><div>It opens by default when clicking on the &quot;add new variable&quot; button. I think this solution is better than the two modal dialogs and it also makes the different slot types a little more visible.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I attached a change set if you want to test it.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Richo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Ricardo Moran <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:richi.moran@gmail.com">richi.moran@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This would be easy to do and it would be a great improvement, but I don&#39;t think this dialog should be open by request. If I understood correctly, the problem that originated this issue was that the slot types other than #Number were difficult to find, so hiding this dialog won&#39;t solve it.<div>


<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Richo<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM, karl ramberg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:karlramberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">karlramberg@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Steve Thomas <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sthomas1@gosargon.com" target="_blank">sthomas1@gosargon.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<div>On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Scott Wallace <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:scott.wallace@squeakland.org" target="_blank">scott.wallace@squeakland.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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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.<br>




</blockquote></div><div>Agreed. Something like:</div><div><img src="cid:ii_13558a6274a3a1ba" alt="AddVariable I.png" title="AddVariable I.png">  </div><div><br></div><div>or<br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_13558a639e6b14b7" alt="AddVariable II.png" title="AddVariable II.png"><br>



</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Nice.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we should use the PropertiesMorphs for this ?</div><div><br></div><div>Also some of the variable types have additional spec</div>



<div>Number and Point have &#39;decimal places...&#39;</div><div>Player have &#39;tiles to get...&#39; ( I&#39;m not really familiar with this)</div><div><br></div><div>After reading Scotts mail I think this dialog should be presented by request, not by default.</div>



<div>And that we bypass the &#39;FillInTheBlank&#39; naming of variable in the first place ?</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Karl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


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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 &quot;value-type&quot; 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.<br>





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This improves the work-flow of add-a-variable quite a bit, and might be a good thing for squeakland as well.  However, it&#39;s probably too late in the development cycle of the imminent release to make such a change…</blockquote>




</div><div>Ideally we would have a group of kids we who could help test these ideas.  </div><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t see a problem with waiting at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen </div></div>
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