On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:38:16 -0700, Mark Engelberg mark.engelberg@gmail.com wrote:
OK, last night I was surfing the web and discovered Squeak. I installed the Squeak plug-in (on Windows XP Professional, in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7), so that I could begin looking at the various tutorials.
Here are some of the problems I've already encountered:
First, when clicking on the supplies tab at the bottom of the screen, two rows of icons pop up. The bottom row is about two-thirds off the screen, making the icons difficult to recognize.
You can drag it to see the rest of the row. That took a while to figure out. I think it's supposed to pop-out fully visible.
Second, when viewing several of the tutorials, many weird characters seemed to be substituted for ordinary characters. For example, the dash character "-" was replaced by a capital N with a bar over it.
Third, whenever a window of text was formatted in a narrow column with something to the right of it, the right edge of the text (about one letter's worth) was cut off.
Fourth, in all of the tutorials containing a mixture of icons and text, the icons were not located in the space allocated for them by the text. They were always shifted a bit. Furthermore, if you tried to drag them into the space allocated by the text, the icon wouldn't quite fit (as if the text were a bit too small, or the icon a bit too big).
Yeah, I've seen all those same things. I never could figure out why/how to fix.