On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:59:12 -0700, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Blake,
Yes, understood Scott's method. I was wondering about how to do it with
halos. I tried to do what you suggested and learned a few things (like
how to inspect a window, which caused some head-scratching until I found
the 'debug' menu).
Ah. Yes.
But, I wasn't able to create a second, named transcript.
Well, a morph has a label and an externalName. The label is what you use
in Etoys. (If you bring up an inspector by clicking on the "eye" icon in
the halo, the label shows up.) The label is visible in the world, but I
haven't found a good way in code to ask the World to "give me that morph
labeled: 'whatever'".
The external name allows you to use the World submorphNamed: message to
find it. You can also change the name with "Name":
sw := World submorphNamed: 'OldName'.
t := sw model.
t show: 'This now contains your independent transcript stream!'.
sw name: 'NewName'.
But this doesn't affect the label. You also have "named" in the sense of:
the variable "t" refers to that transcript now. So, in your code it's
"named" t.
Anyway, no big deal. Scott's method is simple and what I needed. I was
just curious about the halos (which I haven't used much, yet.)
There's a sort-of wall between Etoys and the rest of Smalltalk. You can do
a lot of things easily in Etoys and then hit a wall where straight
Smalltalk code would be easier. But then, you don't necessarily want to
give up all the easy stuff in Etoys.
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