If you had the MorphicWrappers package, the use case becomes very easy:

1- type in the air 'EllipseMorph new' to add the new morph to the world
2- put the mouse over the Ellipse morph and send messages directly to it
(eg: 'self color: Color blue).

Actually, you don't even need to type 'self' as it is clear who the receiver
is.

- Francisco

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Michael Haupt <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Jecel,
>
> Am 01.09.2011 um 15:17 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr.:
>
> It is frustrating for me that while the Squeak VM could easily handle an
> expression like
>
> myView add: <yellowEllipseMorph> copy.
>
> I have no way of typing that. I can't use any object as a literal nor as
> input. In Etoys I can get close enough by getting  a tile representing
> the yellowEllpiseMorph from its halo and use that in expressions. In
> Self I could add a constant slot with some easy to type value, like 0,
> and then drag the arrow from that slot to point to the object I really
> wanted. It was a bit indirect but it worked and I used this a lot. The
> nice thing about having something like this is that you never need
> global variable again.
>
>
> umm …
>
> 1. Morph new openInWorld
> 2. open an inspector on the morph
> 3. in the inspector's evaluation pane, do, e.g., "Smalltalk at: #myMorph
> put: self"
>
> Step 3 looks equivalent to dragging an arrow in Self. Not less indirect.
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
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