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
> 
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