Using Book and Stack Morphs

Dan Shafer dshafer at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 26 03:07:57 UTC 2001


Also, FWIW, my testing so far indicates that all the BookMorph stuff seems to
work quite well. One key is knowing that you select "save as new-page
prototype" from the menu when  you're on a page you want to turn into the
equivalent of a HyperCard background. The sound and visual effects stuff all
works fine and as far as I can tell, you can put any kind of Morph into the
book and it works fine.

Resizing is a tad obtuse until you think about it.  You can't resize the Book,
but you can resize pages. The book can contain many pages of arbitrary size. If
you resize a page and then you want the whole book to be that size, there's a
menu option that will do that for you.

I'm psyched. I'm going to see how much of a tutorial I can put together on this
in the next day or so.

There are still some things about StackMorphs I think will work better, but
some of them are still mysterious to me.

Squeak Rulz!!!

--- "James W. Howe" <jwh at allencreek.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to introduce my son to Squeak.  He uses HyperStudio at school so 
> I thought a good starting point might be to get him to create similar 
> things using Squeak.  I've run into a bit of a roadblock, however.  In a 
> nutshell, I can't figure out how to do much with either Books or 
> Stacks.  For example, I created a Stack by dragging one out of the Stack 
> tools.  I created an SketchMorph and placed it in the stack.  I was able to 
> create a delete pages (cards).  However, I can't seem to figure out how to 
> resize the stack to accommodate items larger than the size at which the 
> stack appears.  Also, I tried playing with the visual and sound effects and 
> I can't get them to work.  Can anyone offer some simple tips on how to 
> build and work with either BookMorphs or StackMorphs?  Finally, what is the 
> major difference between a BookMorph and a StackMorph?  Any guidance on 
> using these objects would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> James Howe			internet: mailto:jwh at allencreek.com
> Allen Creek Software, Inc.        pgpkey: 
> http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html
> Ann Arbor, MI  48103	
> 


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