I believe that this feature (i.e. that you can bring up the World
menu by hitting the escape key) unintentionally found its way into
Squeakland a couple of years ago. This happened because the
"eToyFriendly" work for the Squeakland system (which
disables certain general Squeak features thought to be inappropriate
for the etoy environment) had been completed much earlier, and was not
revisited when the latest Squeakland system was built atop Squeak 3.2
in which the esc-brings-up-a-menu feature first appeared.
It's always been possible to bring up the World menu in
Squeakland by hitting cmd-shift-W, a choice the teachers made years
ago. That avenue has the advantage that kids are not likely to
invoke the magic key sequence by accident.
It would be interesting to hear from the community: Have
kids discovered this "esc" feature? Is it in
widespread use? *Should* kids use it? Or do you think it
should be disabled in the Squeakland system? Should there be a
custom version of the "world" menu available that is more
kid-friendly and less overwhelming?
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 9:43 AM -0600 3/23/04, Mitchell, David [CC] wrote:
Excellent! Perhaps it
escapes the safety net of Squeakland?
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Markus Gaelli
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Subject: Re: [Squeakland]
getting code from a .txt file into a script
Am Dienstag, 23.03.04 um 16:25 Uhr schrieb Mitchell, David [CC]:
> Middle-click on the desktop to show the halos.
> Click the menu halo (red) to show the world menu.
> Click "desktop menu..." to show (another, different)
world menu.
>
Some weeks ago I found out that you could also press the escape key
to
open the world
menu.
Cheers,
Markus