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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