On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Radnour Acton-Page wrote: > However, I find Morphic very confusing, are there any simple > examples for me to follow ? There are tutorials on the Swiki. Visit http://www.squeak.org/ and follow the Documentation link. You can find some tutorials that way.
There are also tutorials that you can run inside Squeak. 1. Fire up Squeak. 2. Look at the bottom of the window. You'll see a brownish rounded rectangle (in Squeak 3.2 it's in the bottom left hand corner) labelled "Navigator". (These things around the window are called "flaps".) This means "navigation between projects". Click on the flap so it opens up. 3. Click on the "FIND" button in the flap. (About halfway across.) 4. You get a bluey purply window with the title "Load A Project" in a colour that doesn't contrast very well. You will notice "Please select a project". On the left you have a choice of Bobs SuperSiwki or three others. Click on Bobs SuperSwiki. This identifies a collection of projects you can load from the net. 5. You'll get a message about initialising network drivers, and then the cursor will get a sort of hollow start beside it. This means "don't even think of doing anything else until this star goes away". 6. Eventually, if all the necessary machines are up, you'll get a list of projects in the right-hand pane. Look for "LearningMorphic.015.pr". Click on that to select it. 7. You'd really like to copy that to your disc so you can use it over and over again. You aren't given that choice. Bring up the menu and select "load as project". 8. Squeak downloads the project and opens it. Presto chango, you are inside a BookMorph (think of it as Squeak's answer to PowerPoint) reading a tutorial about Morphic where you can try things out. Click on the little ">" sign just below the centre of the title to move to the next page.
You might also like to try some of the other projects there.