Modified: trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt 2010-10-01 13:41:14 UTC (rev 606) +++ trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt 2010-10-02 13:43:02 UTC (rev 607) @@ -1,32 +1,34 @@ HOW TO RUN ETOYS-TO-GO -Macintosh: double-click "Etoys To Go" +Linux: start etoys.sh -Linux: double-click etoys.sh +Windows: start Etoys.exe -Windows: double-click Etoys.exe +Macintosh: start "Etoys To Go" USING ETOYS-TO-GO -The main purpose of Etoys-To-Go is for putting it on a USB thumb drive. It -does not require to install anything on a machine's hard disk. All the files -are in one directory, including the Etoys projects you save. That makes it -easy to take transport projects e.g. between home and school. +The main purpose of Etoys-To-Go is for putting it on a USB thumb drive. It +does not require to install anything on a machine's hard disk. All the files +are in one directory, including the Etoys projects you save. That makes it +easy to transport projects e.g. between home and school. You can also drag Etoys-To-Go.app to your desktop and use it from there. -This is useful if for example your institution's policy does not allow to -install applications. If you can, it still is better to use the installer -version because that will also install the Web Browser Plugin so you can -see Etoys projects on the web without having to download them. - +This is useful if, for example, your institution's policy does not allow to +install applications. If you can, it still is better to use the installer +version because that will also install the Web Browser Plugin. This enables +using Etoys projects on the web without having to download them. -TRIVIA +ABOUT + The directory structure for packaging Squeak applications for multiple platforms (such as Etoys-To-Go) was developed in 2006 by Bert Freudenberg -while working on impara's "Plopp" drawing tool for kids. It won the 2006 -ESUG Smalltalk Technology Innovation Award. The trick is in (ab)-using -the Macintosh bundle structure to by adding Virtual Machines for other -platforms like Windows and Linux. The image and other files are shared -between all platforms. +while working on impara's "Plopp" drawing tool for kids. It won the 2006 +ESUG Smalltalk Technology Innovation Award. The trick is in (ab)-using +the Macintosh .app bundle structure by adding Virtual Machines for other +platforms like Windows and Linux. The image and other files are shared +between all platforms. Many Squeak applications are now packaged using +this format. The community adopted the term "OneClick" for it. The first +Etoys-To-Go was created for the Etoys 4.0 release in 2009.