Hi Folks --
At 05:06 AM 10/27/2006, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Am 27.10.2006 um 11:45 schrieb Alan Kay:
Hi Bert --
In trying this, I found a few questions, perhaps glitches.
- I thought we weren't going to generate the key first thing. This
takes a very long time on the board. Weren't we going to just supply a key?
We discussed this on the last conf call, and decided it might be too dangerous. It will happen the very first time only, and demonstrate our commitment to secure operation.
But to whom? The rest of the BTest SW doesn't do this, and we should be able to figure out a way around this for the next build. I think it is a real showstopper as far as end-users are concerned. We should at least reconsider what is being gained and lost here.
- In Takashi's tutorial, RIGHT CLICK did not bring up the halos.
Works for me, on the board.
I was on my PC, so perhaps that's it.
- We don't tell the player of Demon Castle how to get back (use the
nav bar). This should be the last advice on the last page of the bookmorph.
Yes, although there is the "to quit this tutorial ..." hint.
But, still, let's not strand them if we haven't shown them how to navigate. Perhaps a last door will take us back?
- Seems as though Demon Castle should be full screen (this is a
menu option in every bookmorph).
- On the button project, New should probably make a new project and
go there, rather than just putting a blank project window up.
Agreed - that's something for Takashi to change I think.
- I started this image up by double clicking on it, and this gave
me no path to the sample Etoys folder when inside the image. But I wonder if this is an artifact since the file picker seems to show that the image is being executed in a different folder (probably the one with the VM in it). What should I see here/what should I do?
You need to create an "examples.dir" file as Takashi described in the other mail. This is in the Sugar package but needs be modified depending on where the image was installed. Easiest would be to start your etoys.image and execute this:
((ExternalSettings preferenceDirectory directoryNamed: ServerDirectory serverConfDirectoryName) newFileNamed: 'examples.dir') nextPutAll: 'name:Example Etoys\type:file\directory:' withCRs, Smalltalk imagePath, FileDirectory slash, 'ExampleEtoys'; close
Heh heh ... I'm glad this is already done in the Sugar package.
It's ok to overwrite if this existed before. Then restart the image. You should see the "ExampleEtoys" directory in the FIND dialog.
Thanks very much!
Cheers,
Alan
- Bert -