On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:04 AM, James Ashley wrote: > How-dee! > > I'm working my way through PBE (no, I've been too broke lately to buy > a copy yet *blush*, but I will) and a few other smalltalk tutorials.
there is no problem. The pdfs version is for that :) > > I've read the documents about getting halos activated in the first > place. I'm on linux, where alt-shift middle-click (I'm still trying to > get the button colors down) generally works. > > In the lights out sample, it doesn't. I can ctrl-shift "left" click, > get a giant menu, and select "Add Halo." That puts a halo around the > individual cell. If I close it, it disappears and shows a blue > background (which I'm starting to suspect is a default for > morphics...is that close?). Strange I do not get it. normally the halso should be displayed when you click and option shift (but I'm on mac) > > If I jump back through the "Add Halo" hoops on that background, or > actually manage to click on the border, I just get what seems to be > halos for the desktop (system? background? It's always frustrating to > start learning a new system and not know the terminology...then again, > that's part of the fun). > > I've been able to close the morphic by adding a "self owner delete" > mouse down handler to the cells, then commenting it out until I need > it. But it's more than a little painful. > > I spent about two hours today googling for variations on "morphics > decorated frames", but the results I got suggested that I'm not even > in the ballpark. > > I'm sorry if I missed an FAQ or didn't dig far enough back in the > mailing list archives. > > Thanks in advance, > James > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users _______________________________________________ Pharo-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users
