On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:51 AM, mokurai@earthtreasury.org wrote:
Just so. This Reference Manual is aimed at the power user. Among other things, I am trying to learn how to use Squeak development to add facilities to Etoys.
I am still looking for documents that explain Etoys for the classroom teacher and the student without going behind them into Squeak development. I have found many that begin to explain parts of Etoys, but nothing that I consider satisfactory. For example, nothing that systematically explains what tiles are available for Etoys programming, and the places to find them. I know about
Object viewers The gold chest The function menus in some tiles
Are there more?
You can find all morphs that have additional morphic categories with the MethodFinder : WorldMenu/Open/MethodFinder.
Search for "additionsTo"
Karl
On Sat, September 8, 2012 9:16 am, karl ramberg wrote:
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:47 AM, mokurai@earthtreasury.org wrote:
I have discovered by trying many combinations that alt-shift-w brings up the World menu in Etoys on Ubuntu. I have added that and some other information to
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/
and I am about to add the keyboard shortcuts for the XO. (I have two of them, which I have named Thing1 and Thing2.)...First pass, done now.
Apparently I now know how to apply all that I know of Squeak (not a lot, but increasing) within Etoys, by bringing up menus that allow me to bring up everything else.
Is there a design document for Etoys explaining what its intention is? Am I right in thinking that it is meant to provide a greatly restricted programming environment on the surface, where only a few Squeak/Smalltalk objects and methods are available without going behind the scenes, chosen for younger children?
Squeak is the environment in which Etoys lives. While direct access to Squeak is possible its of most interest to power user. Its not hard to break the system running Squeak so access is made not easy to stumble uppon. A broken system is quite disruptive to most lectures and newbies.
Karl
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