[Etoys] Finding the cursor on the screen

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Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de Wed Nov 26 05:03:29 EST 2008

On 26.11.2008, at 04:37, Jerome Peace wrote:

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Finding the cursor on the screen

As for finding the cursor on the screen, you could have the computer watch it for you. :)

Take a pair of MovingEyeMorphs out of the parts bin (In etoys pull the object catalog out of the toy chest. the moving eyes are in the just-for-fun catagory.) and put them somewhere convenient on the screen. (Squeaks mouse logo used to serve this function.)

That's a cool idea! By embedding it in the tool flap it even follows across projects.

Now, we could add that to a new release. But I'm wondering how we could support this mod without having to store a new image ...

Hmm. I was thinking of this (and describing it) as something a user would do manually when needed. I hadn't though of providing it "ready to go".

And of course that leaves the problem of how do kids and teachers stumble upon the solution. For which your idea is a good response.

The other thought is to have a world menu item like 'help me find my cursor' that opens the eyes. That could be a changeset addition.

Ah. Could you provide a pair of eyes as a saved morph? (e.g. Help me find my cursor.morph). Would that help users stumble upon it?

I'm not familiar enough with the olpc enviorment to come up with a better suggestion.

Yours in curiosity and service, --Jeorme Peace