Thanks Bert,

I found the settings you mentioned... Alt-Shift-W worked much better for me
than the mouse clicks to get into the Help, etc.

Thanks for referring me to the squeakland.org site also. I joined their list
today, upon realizing there was one there too.

I'm using the version of Squeak that you pointed me to at Squeakland. I
didn't realize there was a different one on the squeak site. Each day the
fog of confusion lifts one more layer. :)

I still didn't get mouse settings set for getting into the halos with just
one click, but I'll try again with it later. I did successfully find the
settings, at least.

That's good enough for now! Thanks again for your help.

Nancy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:17 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Cc: Nancy Head
> Subject: Re: Tutorial #2 (more new user comments)
>
>
> Am Dienstag, 08.07.03 um 14:33 Uhr schrieb Nancy Head:
>
> > Hi Bert,
> >
> > Thanks! I need some more help in order to find this:
> >
> >> perhaps the image from
> >> Squeakland.org would be better suited. It has some nice preferences
> >> setup already. Of course, you can also enable these in the developer
> >> image:
> >>
> >> Open the preferences panel (world menu - "help" section), click on
> >> "halos", and enable
> >
> > At squeakland.org, what "image" am I looking at/for?
>
> There is an installer for the Squeak browser plugin at
> http://www.squeakland.org/detect.html that contains all you need,
> including the plugin, the virtual machine, and the image. It is
> basically the same like the Squeak.org one, but with some preferences
> adjusted, and more conservative in adopting new stuff.
>
> What version of Squeak are you using? The one running as plugin in your
> Internet browser from Squeakland.org, or the one running as stand-alone
> application from Squeak.org? I assumed the latter because you posted to
> the Squeak-dev list. The Squeakland version is geared more towards
> non-geek users, like parents or teachers. They have a very friendly
> mailing list, too, which has a lot less traffic than this one.
>
> > What "preferences" am I looking at and where?
> >
> > Is the "world menu" in the Squeak plugin that I downloaded (via
> > NPSqueak.zip)? I couldn't find it but would love to find a help file.
>
> The world menu is the menu that pops up when you click on the empty
> Squeak background, aka The World. Here you can choose "help", and then
> "preferences". If no menu pops up when you click, you can also get it
> via the World's halo (click the menu handle, last entry is "desktop
> menu"), or press Cmd-Shift-W.
>
> > I like the sound of what you describe, if I can only find it. :)
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:31 AM
> >> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> >> Cc: Nancy Head
> >> Subject: Re: Tutorial #2 (more new user comments)
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Nancy,
> >>
> >> for the things you are currently doing, perhaps the image from
> >> Squeakland.org would be better suited. It has some nice preferences
> >> setup already. Of course, you can also enable these in the developer
> >> image:
> >>
> >> Open the preferences panel (world menu - "help" section), click on
> >> "halos", and enable
> >> 	mouseOverHalos : puts up a halo as soon as the mouse is
> >> over a sketch
> >> or or other scripted object
> >> 	magicHalos : additionally, dims the halo to make it less obtrusive
> >> 	haloTransitions : makes the halo use fade-in and fade-out
> >> animations
> >> (very nice)
> >>
> >> With these preferences enabled, you can use halos comfortably with
> >> only
> >> one mouse button for most tasks. Only when you need to bring up halos
> >> on special objects, you have to press the Cmd modifier (Alt on PC). My
> >> son loves the magic halos ;-)
> >>
> >> -- Bert
> >
> >>>>> I find it cumbersome to
> >>>>> "alt-click."
> >>
>