Squeak

 

Flaps info

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Use the classic navigator outside OLPC.

 

Press Alt-Shift-W to bring up the world menu (I really think we

should not hide this as much). Pin it down using the top-right button

for further use.

 

Select "flaps..." - "destroy all shared flaps", then "install classic

etoy flaps".


>How do I enlarge the tab size of flaps so that they can me more easily

>grasped? Resizing with the yellow halo does not work.

 

Hi, Hannes,

 

(1) The size of a textual flap tab is determined by the size of the

text it is showing.

 

So to make textual tabs larger, make the *text* larger. To do that,

just bring up the desktop ("world") menu and follow "appearance..."

to "system fonts..." to "flaps font". Choose a suitably large font,

and observe the results.

 

(2) Another approach is to use "graphical" tabs instead of textual

tabs. You can draw (or import) any graphic you want, of any size,

and make it be the graphic shown in any tab. This is one very easy

way to provide a completely "personalized" look to your Squeak

desktop.

 

To do this, bring up the halo menu for a flap tab, and choose "use

graphical tab". The tab will change to a graphic, initially showing

a squeaky mouse.

 

Now there two ways you can change that squeaky mouse into the graphic

you really want:

 

*Bring up the halo on the Sketch inside the tab, and hit the

repaint handle; now use the painting tools to transform the mouse

into whatever you wish.

 

*Bring up the halo on the graphical tab, and choose "choose new

graphic" from the halo menu. This will give you a little graphical

chooser that will allow you to cycle among all the pictures known to

the system. All graphics that have been imported, all graphics that

have been drawn, and all graphics that have been grabbed from the

screen will show up in this chooser. Hit OK when you find the

graphic you want to use.


On Oct 28, 2007, at 18:36 , Young-Jin Lee wrote:

 

> Hi,

>

> Is there a way to copy some eToy scripts across the project? I want

> to re-use my eToy project that I have created before in another

> project.

 

You can make a shared flap and move the scripted object into it,

switch projects, drag it out.

 

- Bert -

 

Each Project has an associated PasteUpMorph that is globally accessible via

the World object when the project is active but can also be accessed by

sending the world message to a Project. So to moving a morph to another

project means changing it's parent to the "world" morph for that project:

 

 

(Project named: 'New Destination') world addMorph: (World submorphNamed: 'My

E-Toy')

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