Classic and Simple Halos (was: Re: Another Morphic Tutorial)

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Sat Apr 21 00:56:41 UTC 2001


Guess who might have been working on this for some time ....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 4:06 PM -0700 4/20/01, Dan Shafer wrote:
>--- Scott Wallace <Scott.Wallace at disney.com> wrote:
>
>>  The "Simple halos" were a once-off experiment requested by Alan a
>>  couple of years ago.  The idea was to have a very small number of
>>  quite large handles, each with suggestive graphics, which included an
>>  "escape" that allowed the user to bring up a full set of handles when
>>  desired.  In this experiment, we were targeting quite young children,
>>  so consistency with the "professional programmers' system" was never
>>  an issue.  With much larger graphics and without other handles to
>>  share the real-estate, there were clearly very different constraints
>>  and goals at play here.
>
>I'd still like to see something like this, maybe a variant, for newbies (who
>might or might not be children). In fact, what's emerging here in my mind is
>something I _suspect_ is kind of like the omniUser stuff I have heard about
>from time to time. Layered access, a la HyperCard. Simple menu choices. Simple
>morph choices. Simple (and larger?) handles on objects' halos. Simple viewers.
>IOW, start with a small sub-set environment. This doesn't have to be 
>a separate
>product, obviously, but a project.
>
>Is anyone working on this kind of thing? I can't find anything like it.
>
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