Hi Pierre-André

Thank you for your response.

That is useful to know. Apparently the option needs to be on sometimes and off sometimes. So it needs to stay separate from other options.

Yours in service, Jerome Peace

--- Dreyfuss Pierre-André (EDU) pierre-andre.dreyfuss@edu.ge.ch wrote:

Hi, it is easy to remove or set the mouseover Halo.

Either using world menu : player options... uncheck mouse-over halo

or red hallo of world : player options... uncheck mouse-over halo.

The second way is working with any playfield, you can this way add mouse-over halo just for a playfield.

Uncheked mouse-over halo is needed if you want to use mouse enter or mouse leave for a script.

best regards

-------- Message d'origine-------- De: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org de la part de Peace Jerome Date: mer. 13/09/2006 22:51 À: Kim Rose Cc: squeakland@squeakland.org Objet : Re: [Squeakland] Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?

Hi Kim,

Thank you for your quick response.

[Squeakland] Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?

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Kim Rose kim.rose at squeakland.org Tue Sep 12 05:18:25 PDT 2006 wrote:

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Hi, Jerome - This preference was created especially for

childrens' use and is

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quite helpful to kids first learning to work with

sketches and

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manipulating them via the handles in the halo.

Ok. That's what I was looking for.

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Is there a reason that merely opting *not* to

use this preference

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and saving an image this way will not suffice your

need?

I didn't ask my question with a wish to eliminate the feature. I wanted to find out who its customers were. I also wanted to find out who spoke for those customers. Now that I have the follow-on question becomes:

If you could have things anyway you wanted them how would you want them? Why do mouseOverHalos only affect sketch morphs? What makes scketch morphs special to the children?

The other way to eliminate the preference is to find out if anybody (on the squeakdev side) cares if it is always on.

Which brings me to the point I can address your question. The number of prefences in squeak has grown so great that maintaining squeak by testing all the combinations is not possible. Any option eliminated cuts the task in half. So I am exploring that.

If you'll remember the request the inventor of the chess made of the king. A how the king realized it would be easier to cut off the inventors head than place twice the number of grains on each successive square of the board. You will have some idea of the maintainence issues involved. :-)

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Certainly for the "Squeak" image (vs. the

"Squeakland" image) this

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may not be problemmatic as we advise any teacher,

parent or child

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using Squeak to make eToys to use the "Squeakland

image" which has

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this option. -- Kim

Cool.

Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace

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