MixedMorph for kids

Hi,

My 6-year old's favorite object is the "MixedMorph" in Squeak 3.9 because of
the way it handles like putty. She uses it to create all kinds of shapes and
pictures. She misses it in Squeakland plugin image.

Will MixedMorph make it into the Plugin image?

Regards .. Subbu
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On Tuesday 08 May 2007 12:03 am, Karl wrote:
> subbukk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My 6-year old's favorite object is the "MixedMorph" in Squeak 3.9 because
> > of the way it handles like putty. She uses it to create all kinds of
> > shapes and pictures. She misses it in Squeakland plugin image.
> >
> > Will MixedMorph make it into the Plugin image?
> MixedMorph is Jerome Peace enhanced PolygonMorph I think.
Nice work, Jerome. Thanks.

> You can get
> much of the same from a regular PolygonMorph but not the mix with smooth
> and segmented outline,
For a kid, they are very different 'stuff'. Mixed feels like working with
dough while Polygon is like working with sticks.

Since Polygon is a subclass of Mixed, I changed PolygonMorph to
MixedCurveMorph in SketchEditor>>polyNew: method and painting shapes (like
spades or heart) is so much easier. It will be a good addition to
SqueakPlugin.

Regards .. Subbu

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On Tuesday 08 May 2007 9:50 pm, subbukk wrote:
> Since Polygon is a subclass of Mixed, ...
Ooops! Read this as superclass of Mixed.

Time to get some sleep, I guess :-).
Subbu
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  Subbu,

> My 6-year old's favorite object is the "MixedMorph" in Squeak 3.9 because of
> the way it handles like putty. She uses it to create all kinds of shapes and
> pictures. She misses it in Squeakland plugin image.
>
> Will MixedMorph make it into the Plugin image?

  There was good discussion with Jerome about it, but I still have
"mixed" feeling toward including that to the Squeakland image (and the
OLPC image).  This is due to the amount of modification it makes and I
have not figure out what kind of side-effects it might have.  (Not
that it have a bug or something, but it is a big commitment to change
all polygons.)

  For your 6-years old, CurveMorph with a bit more control points
would do?

  For older kids, the OLPC version has Etoys scriptable polygons so
that they can actually write tile scripts to change the shape of a
polygon.  One time I tried to merge them together, but the effort
didn't go far enough.  That would be still nice to have...

-- Yoshiki
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