I'm confused over the behavior I see when I try to copy objects from one project to another. Rather than fill people's mailboxes with the attached project, I've created the following page:
http://poincare.uits.iupui.edu/~heiland/squeak/
TIA, Randy
Hi, Randy,
Apropos of the following item on the "wish list" on your site...
have object picking work inside-out, rather than outside-in (world->obj)
... we should make it more widely known that you can make object picking work inside-out (obj -> world) any time you wish by simply holding down the *shift* key as you pick.
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 1:09 PM -0500 6/20/05, Randy Heiland wrote:
I'm confused over the behavior I see when I try to copy objects from one project to another. Rather than fill people's mailboxes with the attached project, I've created the following page:
http://poincare.uits.iupui.edu/~heiland/squeak/
TIA, Randy
Thanks Scott. Now I feel like I'm losing my mind because it now seems that inside-out picking *is* (sort of) my default behavior - whereas a few days ago it was not. Is it possible there was a change made to Squeak that caused this (and I got it during a server update)? I'm happy, but confused - which is OK as that's pretty much my daily state.
A more complete synopsis: my simple test case is to drag out a playfield then draw a sketch and drag/embed it into the playfield. When I then attempt multiple "picks" on that sketch (I'm on Windows, so that's 'alt-left-mouse click'), it will never pick anything other than the sketch, i.e. it doesn't actually do inside-out picking. However, doing multiple shift-pick while over the sketch does do inside-out picking. well, almost. If my cursor happens to be over the 'rotation center' of the sketch when I attempt a multiple shift-pick, then my picked objects are 'sketch' and 'Ellipse' (which is "inside" the sketch) and then I get a "message not understood, undefined obj" error.
Probably more than you cared to hear. Overall, I like this picking behavior.
--Randy
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From: Scott Wallace [mailto:scott.wallace@squeakland.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:43 AM To: Randy Heiland; squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: [Squeakland] object picking [WAS: copying objs to new proj confusion]
Hi, Randy,
Apropos of the following item on the "wish list" on your site...
have object picking work inside-out, rather than outside-in (world->obj)
... we should make it more widely known that you can make object picking work inside-out (obj -> world) any time you wish by simply holding down the *shift* key as you pick.
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 1:09 PM -0500 6/20/05, Randy Heiland wrote:
I'm confused over the behavior I see when I try to copy objects from one project to another. Rather than fill people's mailboxes with the attached project, I've created the following page:
http://poincare.uits.iupui.edu/~heiland/squeak/
TIA, Randy
squeakland@lists.squeakfoundation.org