I was able to play "car.tape" and it was definitely cool. Thank you for this.
I tried "textwrap.tape", however, and the effect was a little disappointing. Did you upload the correct file? The cursor wandered around the screen a bit, saved my image, played around with the menus some more, and that's about it.
I was actually hoping it would show how bookmorphs work. I need to get some ideas down and I was debating: MS Word or HTML. Bleah.
I downloaded Xanadu, but the green release is all in C, so I won't be trying to get that up too quickly. But I also read some of their web docs, which got me looking at some web sites describing collaborative work environments (e.g. http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/delphi3.html) and I thought it might be worthwhile to try and create something around this using PWS.
Swikis are great, but the web-based editor is quite poor. It should be fairly easy to set up something using bookmorphs, however, if I can figure out how to make them work properly.
EventRecorderMorph should provide an error message when it is unable to open a file (or "read a tape"), this makes things quite confusing because it does not seem to work unless you enter the full path name. It also has a hard-coded assumption that lines end with Character cr. Aren't there higher-level constructs for reading a file a line at a time than the following pattern?
[aStream atEnd] whileFalse: [ line := aStream upTo: Character cr. lineStream := ReadStream on: lineStream. etc... ]
Cheers,
Steve
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Pair [mailto:spair@advantive.com] Sent: August 26, 1999 9:40 AM To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: RE: Car and Steering wheel demo and Squeak-DEMOS
I think morpic tapes are a good way to explain morphic stuff. We should create more tape files and put them on a swiki page! Squeak Central can create a Morphic-PWM-9 with Scamper showing this page and if a beginner clicks on one of the listed tapes scamper can open the recorder to play the demo. So we can create Tape-DemoWithMe's on the swiki page and so it's much easier to learn Squeak. What do you think about that ?
I think it's great, but what happened to PWM-8? Is there a number 8?
Here's another tape showing text wrapping, the same instructions apply:
http://www.advantive.com/squeak/textwrap.tape
Instructions:
- Get a fully updated standard Squeak 2.5 image
- Start it (don't resize anything).
- Create and Enter a Morphic project
- Open an EventRecorderMorph and position it precisely in the top left corner of the screen (aligning the pixels with the top
left)
- Select "readTape" and enter your downloaded copy of the above file
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