I was helping Parichay the last few days and for the life of me could only find two flaps under the Object Catalog: button flap and connectors flap. I find out today from him that in order to add a text flap you have to press <ALT> < , >. It's like finding an Easter egg!
Hoping that this text flap would be added to the object catalog. Till then, I'll add this to the manual. --Cherry On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Steve Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Parichay, > > FYI, just to be clear, it seems from your email you were creating a "Button > Flap" from the Object Catalog. This flap has different properties from the > "About" flap you see on the Etoys "home page" in that it acts as a "Parts > Bin" > > The "Button Flap" allows you to drag objects onto it, so that when you > click on an object in the "Button Flap" it creates a Copy of that object > which you can drag onto your World. > > It seems you wish to create a descriptive or help text flap where you can > describe things in the Etoy project. > > The commands in my previous email explain how to obtain this. We should > probably consider adding the "text flap" to the Object Catalog. > > Stephen > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Steve Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > >> To get a flap hit <CTRL><W> (on Macintosh <CMD><W>). >> This will bring up the World menu. Then click on "flaps..." which will >> display the flaps menu. >> Then click on "make a new flap" >> >> You can now drag text (and any other objects) onto the flap. >> >> Stephen >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Everything in Etoys is made from a single kind of basic object. They can >>> all be attached (embedded) in any other object. >>> >>> First, make a flap, then open it by clicking on the tab, and simply drag >>> a text object into the flap and drop it. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* Parichay Parivesh <[email protected]> >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Sent:* Mon, March 22, 2010 4:27:34 AM >>> *Subject:* [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!! >>> >>> hello >>> >>> >>> Can any one giude how write text in flap connector in Etoy . Its very >>> very urgent >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kinds Regards >>> Parichay Parivesh >>> +447503433720 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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