Hello,
As far as I know, the current version of Etoys (v. 4.1) does not support a scroll bar in the script box which makes it very difficult to add/edit tiles in the script when it already has many tiles. I am wondering how people deal with this problem. Is there a way to work around this issue?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee
Young-Jin,
Good question, a scroll bar sounds like a nice enhancement request (created one here http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-1084).
Two ways I can think of to deal with this for now:
1. You should be able to get the Scripts Halo and then use the "Move" icon to move it up and down, not ideal but it does work. 2. Switch code to "show code textually" to get a text representation of the tiles, of course changing things here does not translate back to tiles when you "revert to tile version..." any changes will be lost. If you do make changes be sure to type CMD-S (on Mac) or CTRL-S (on PC or XO).
Stephen
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Young-Jin Lee youngjin.michael@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
As far as I know, the current version of Etoys (v. 4.1) does not support a scroll bar in the script box which makes it very difficult to add/edit tiles in the script when it already has many tiles. I am wondering how people deal with this problem. Is there a way to work around this issue?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list squeakland@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Steve Thomas sthomas1@gosargon.com wrote:
Young-Jin,
Good question, a scroll bar sounds like a nice enhancement request (created one here http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-1084).
Two ways I can think of to deal with this for now:
- You should be able to get the Scripts Halo and then use the "Move"
icon to move it up and down, not ideal but it does work. 2. Switch code to "show code textually" to get a text representation of the tiles, of course changing things here does not translate back to tiles when you "revert to tile version..." any changes will be lost. If you do make changes be sure to type CMD-S (on Mac) or CTRL-S (on PC or XO).
Stephen
I suggest
3 Refactor script into smaller parts
Big scripts are quite hard to handle and a scollbar is sometimes a good solution. But often is a big script a sign forma refactoring of the code into smaller and more manageable
Another suggestion: It would be nice to be able to collapse pats of scipts into single lines like a directory file browser.
Karl
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Young-Jin Lee <youngjin.michael@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello,
As far as I know, the current version of Etoys (v. 4.1) does not support a scroll bar in the script box which makes it very difficult to add/edit tiles in the script when it already has many tiles. I am wondering how people deal with this problem. Is there a way to work around this issue?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list squeakland@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
squeakland mailing list squeakland@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
On 23.04.2012, at 12:19, Young-Jin Lee wrote:
Hello,
As far as I know, the current version of Etoys (v. 4.1) does not support a scroll bar in the script box which makes it very difficult to add/edit tiles in the script when it already has many tiles. I am wondering how people deal with this problem. Is there a way to work around this issue?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee
You can drag any object using the same gesture you use to bring up the halo.
So for a long script, I just drag it using the right mouse button.
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