Two tips for using Morphic
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When using Morphic as a presentation system (each project is one "slide") it pays off rather quickly to do create your own flaps.
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X parts bin X pop out on mouse over X shared by all projects
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To do a button which jumps to another project - bring up TheWorldMenu. - choose 'jump to project...' - put the mouse over the project you want to jump to (no click) - ALT-click (Windows, Unix), Cmd-click (Mac) two times --> the first click brings up the halos of TheWorldMorph --> the second click brings up the halos of a MenuItemMorph which jumps to the project you want to. - drag out on the yellow handle a copy of the MenuItemMorph - voila - you have your 'jump-to-button', move it to a convenient place. - you may as well put a copy of it into one of your parts bin flaps to avoid this procedure in the future. A good candidate is a 'home' button.
I think this technique helps considerably to do presentations which have enough links. Make sure to choose good names for your projects ('slides'). You'll find your things more easily when you have to answer questions after your presentation.
Hannes Hirzel
For slide sequencing, I suggest Bob Arning's "InternalThreadNavigatorMorph". This is what I use.
Get one out. Use the middle button (between the two thumbnails) to get its menu. Choose "create a thread of all projects". This will bring up a sorter for all the projects in your system. DnD to sequence the projects that you want. When you close the sorter you will be prompted for a name for your new presentation. The ITNM keeps track of all presentations for you. You can sequence through a presentation by clicking on the righthand thumbnail (to go forward) and the LH thumbnail (to go backwards). Etc.
To reedit simply choose "edit this thread".
I usually do "create a thread of all projects" first, then say "edit this thread". This will give you two sorters: all the projects, and the sorter for your presentation.
Two other useful buttons. There is one that looks like a thumbnail. Choosing this will give you a blank new project. You will be asked to name it, and then you can drop it in the sorter.
The other is "make into a parts bin". This allows thumbnails to be automatically cloned when you DnD them. Remember to turn this off(!).
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If you just want a button that jumps to another project, look in "new morph ..." and choose "make a project link". This will give you a list of all projects. Choose the desired one, and you will get a thumbnail that will take you to the project when pressed.
Note that this is less useful than the above, because the ITNM does not clutter up a project with links, youi can easily reuse the projects in many presentations.
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In both cases above, the thumbnails remember the URLs of the projects and will fetch them if you don't have them locally ....
I have been using this for almost two years now and it is really useful (thanks Bob!).
Cheers,
Alan
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At 5:40 PM +0100 3/4/02, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
Two tips for using Morphic
When using Morphic as a presentation system (each project is one "slide") it pays off rather quickly to do create your own flaps.
Check
X parts bin X pop out on mouse over X shared by all projects
To do a button which jumps to another project
- bring up TheWorldMenu.
- choose 'jump to project...'
- put the mouse over the project you want to jump to (no click)
- ALT-click (Windows, Unix), Cmd-click (Mac) two times --> the first click brings up the halos of TheWorldMorph --> the second click brings up the halos of a MenuItemMorph which jumps to the project you want to.
- drag out on the yellow handle a copy of the MenuItemMorph
- voila - you have your 'jump-to-button', move it to a convenient place.
- you may as well put a copy of it into one of your parts bin flaps to avoid this procedure in the future. A good candidate is a 'home' button.
I think this technique helps considerably to do presentations which have enough links. Make sure to choose good names for your projects ('slides'). You'll find your things more easily when you have to answer questions after your presentation.
Hannes Hirzel
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