Another Morphic Tutorial
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at disney.com
Mon Apr 16 22:50:00 UTC 2001
As Josh pointed out, the comments use the internal SqC terminology
for these. We call the constellation of colored circles a "halo", and
the colored circles themselves are called "handles".
Cheers,
Alan
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At 10:19 AM -0700 4/15/01, Andrew P. Black wrote:
>Re: Terminology.
>At 17:41 +0100 2001.04.15, John Hinsley wrote:
>
>> > I called the entire surrounding pantheon of icons a halo but I
>>think Squeakers
>>> generally call each of the buttons surrounding the selected
>>>object a halo. I'm
>>> not sure it matters _too_ much but in tutorials we probably ought
>>>to agree on
>>> the terminology.
>>
>>Yes. Any ideas for what to call the collection of halos? A cluster of
>>halos? A hoopla of halos? A holy of halos?
>
>I think that the whole collection of colored blobs should be called
>a halo. After all, this is close to the accepted meaning of the
>term in English. What then to call each of the colored blobs? How
>about "buttons"?
>
>Sometime you can avoid using a word at all, by just saying something
>like: bring up the Morphic halo on foo, and click the purple
>eyedropper.
>
> Andrew
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