Another option is to have "mouse over" bring up the halo. Many elementary schools use this.
Cheers,
Alan
At 09:31 AM 10/9/2005, Mark Engelberg wrote:
I'm about to teach my kids the "car curriculum". We're running on Windows. I notice that I have two options for making the "halo" appear for an object.
Option 1: Teach my kids to use Alt-click to make the halo appear. Option 2: Select the "3-button mouse" option at the top of the plug-in the first time we load it up, and then just teach them to right click to make halos appear.
Is one option preferable to the other? I'm inclined to configure the system so that they can make halos appear by right-clicking, but I understand that essentially this option is swapping the functionality of the right button with the "center button" which we don't have. So I worry that whatever functionality is mapped to the right button by default, will now require alt-clicking to do. So what is mapped to the right button by default? Is it commonly, or rarely used in the eToys environment? Will I regret it if I swap the right button with the center button so the kids can more easily summon up halos?
Thanks,
Mark
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