Re: RE : Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?

>
> Hi,
> it is easy to remove or set the mouseover Halo.
>
> Either using world menu :   player options...
> uncheck mouse-over halo
>
> or red hallo of world :   player options... uncheck
> mouse-over halo.
>
> The second way is working with any playfield, you
> can this way add mouse-over halo just for a
> playfield.
>
>
> Uncheked mouse-over halo is needed if you want to
> use mouse enter or mouse leave for a script.
>  
> best regards
>
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> De: [hidden email] de la part de
> Peace Jerome
> Date: mer. 13/09/2006 22:51
> À: Kim Rose
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Objet : Re: [Squeakland] Can we remove the
> mouseOverHalo option?
>  
> Hi Kim,
>
> Thank you for your quick response.
>
>
> [Squeakland] Can we remove the mouseOverHalo option?
> >Kim Rose kim.rose at squeakland.org
> >Tue Sep 12 05:18:25 PDT 2006 wrote:
> >
>
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> >
> >Hi, Jerome -
> >This preference was created especially for
> childrens'
> use and is
> >quite helpful to kids first learning to work with
> sketches and
> >manipulating them via the handles in the halo.
>
> Ok. That's what I was looking for.
>
> >  Is there a reason  that merely opting *not* to
> use
> this preference
> > and saving an image this way will not suffice your
> need?
>
> I didn't ask my question with a wish to eliminate
> the
> feature. I wanted to find out who its customers
> were.
> I also wanted to find out who spoke for those
> customers. Now that I have the follow-on question
> becomes:
>
> If you could have things anyway you wanted them how
> would you want them?
> Why do mouseOverHalos only affect sketch morphs?
> What makes scketch morphs special to the children?
>
> The other way to eliminate the preference is to find
> out if anybody (on the squeakdev side) cares if it
> is
> always on.
>
> Which brings me to the point I can address your
> question.  The number of prefences in squeak has
> grown
> so great that maintaining squeak by testing all the
> combinations is not possible. Any option eliminated
> cuts the task in half. So I am exploring that.
>
> If you'll remember the request the inventor of the
> chess made of the king. A how the king realized it
> would be easier to cut off the inventors head than
> place twice the number of grains on each successive
> square of the board. You will have some idea of the
> maintainence issues involved. :-)  
> >
> >Certainly for the "Squeak" image (vs. the
> "Squeakland" image) this
> >may not be problemmatic as we advise any teacher,
> parent or child
> >using Squeak to make eToys to use the "Squeakland
> image" which has
> >this option.
> >  -- Kim
>
> Cool.
>
> Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace