I was able to play "car.tape" and it was definitely cool. Thank you for
this.

I tried "textwrap.tape", however, and the effect was a little disappointing.
Did you upload the correct file? The cursor wandered around the screen a
bit, saved my image, played around with the menus some more, and that's
about it.

I was actually hoping it would show how bookmorphs work. I need to get some
ideas down and I was debating: MS Word or HTML. Bleah.

I downloaded Xanadu, but the green release is all in C, so I won't be trying
to get that up too quickly. But I also read some of their web docs, which
got me looking at some web sites describing collaborative work environments
(e.g. http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/delphi3.html) and I thought it
might be worthwhile to try and create something around this using PWS.

Swikis are great, but the web-based editor is quite poor. It should be
fairly easy to set up something using bookmorphs, however, if I can figure
out how to make them work properly.

EventRecorderMorph should provide an error message when it is unable to open
a file (or "read a tape"), this makes things quite confusing because it does
not seem to work unless you enter the full path name. It also has a
hard-coded assumption that lines end with Character cr. Aren't there
higher-level constructs for reading a file a line at a time than the
following pattern?

[aStream atEnd]
	whileFalse: [
		line := aStream upTo: Character cr.
		lineStream := ReadStream on: lineStream.
		etc...
	]

Cheers,

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Pair [mailto:spair at advantive.com]
> Sent: August 26, 1999 9:40 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: RE: Car and Steering wheel demo and Squeak-DEMOS
>
>
> > I think morpic tapes are a good way to explain morphic stuff. We should
> > create more tape
> > files and put them on a swiki page! Squeak Central can create a
> > Morphic-PWM-9 with
> > Scamper showing this page and if a beginner clicks on one of the listed
> > tapes scamper can
> > open the recorder to play the demo. So we can create Tape-DemoWithMe's
> > on the swiki page
> > and so it's much easier to learn Squeak.
> > What do you think about that ?
>
> I think it's great, but what happened to PWM-8?  Is there a number 8?
>
> Here's another tape showing text wrapping, the same instructions apply:
>
> http://www.advantive.com/squeak/textwrap.tape
>
> > >Instructions:
> > >
> > >1. Get a fully updated standard Squeak 2.5 image
> > >2. Start it (don't resize anything).
> > >3. Create and Enter a Morphic project
> > >4. Open an EventRecorderMorph and position it precisely in the
> > >    top left corner of the screen (aligning the pixels with the top
> > left)
> > >5. Select "readTape" and enter your downloaded copy of the above file
>