Folks,
A lot of exciting things are going on in the Etoys community with developers working on a new version, the upcoming Squeakfest in Wilmington and as we work towards completion of an Etoys Manual.
We are going through all the objects and tiles in Etoys to see if we can consolidate things a bit. As such we are looking for input from the community on things that may duplicate functionality or be broken or not useful. We have created a web page with the list of items to consider herehttps://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AtrfJTLQFG4ndGpuOVpOR25WSE1YbGU2N3lxNUxGSkE&hl=en&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Here is one entry as a sample, something I originally thought was useless and duplicate yet learned some new things and found cool uses for it:
*Item*: Hand Magnifier and Magnifier:
*Description*: They both have the same attributes in the magnifier category. The only difference is "show pointer" is true for the hand magnifier. When true this shows a dot in the center of the magnifier to indicate where your mouse is pointing. The only potential use I see for this is when trying to click on those tiny items (like the "etoys friendly" button or when editing a picture and you need fine grained control. The open question is whether the remaining object has "show pointer" set to true or false. They appear to be functional duplicates
*Cool Usage*: Having a hard time clicking on those arrows inside a script? Bring out a Hand Magnifier and you can actually see where your mouse is pointing even on those tiny arrows and checkboxes. Kathleen raised a good point that some of her kids bring out multiple magnifiers and play with them including overlaying magnifiers.
If you have any suggestions please feel free to respond on the squeakland mailing list.
Thanks, Stephen
On 17.06.2010, at 21:09, Steve Thomas wrote:
Folks,
A lot of exciting things are going on in the Etoys community with developers working on a new version, the upcoming Squeakfest in Wilmington and as we work towards completion of an Etoys Manual.
We are going through all the objects and tiles in Etoys to see if we can consolidate things a bit. As such we are looking for input from the community on things that may duplicate functionality or be broken or not useful. We have created a web page with the list of items to consider here
Saw the "Round Glass" is listed there. That is actually a demo for screening: open its halo menu and pin it down. Then play with the "show" options at the bottom. E.g., after you "show screen over source" you can use multiple halo-clicks to get a halo for either the embedded ellipse or the magnifier.
By using a screener you could for example paint your own magnifier. I did that in the attached project.
Not sure why the screener thingy isn't in the object catalog on its own, maybe because it's a bit hard to figure out.
- Bert -
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