Minor formatting problem with Etoys Simstories1.002.pr

John Hinsley jhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Fri Aug 3 10:04:35 UTC 2001


Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:48:56AM +0100, John Hinsley wrote:
> > Ross Boylan wrote:
> > >
> > > The project has a text area on the left and figures/buttons on the right.
> > > The right hand side of the text is cut off for me.  For example, the first
> > > line ends with "id" not "idea", the second with "a" not "an", and so
> > > on.  Oddly, the position of the margin is not uniform, so different lines
> > > are cut off at different offsets.
> >
> > We're talking about the grasshopper, right?
> Yes.
> >
> > Try this. First mouse over the long orange bar at the extreme bottom and
> > click on "escape browser" then just bring up the halos on the images and
> > drag them (black pincers halo) a little to the right. Voila! the text
> > should appear, properly formatted.
> >
> > Works for me, anyway.
> >
> Works here too.  Out of curiosity, why was the cutoff jagged? 

I'll investigate when I have time. I'm really not sure. You could try
putting the text in front of the images.

> And is
> the escape browser step mandatory?

Again, I'm not sure, but I suspect not (depending, maybe, on the size of
the monitor.

Cheers

John

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