Squeak as Presentation vehicle.

I have a friend who I'd like to show how Squeak can be an effective
presentation tool. He's not a programmer, he's a teacher. The whole
Squeak desktop to him is a bit scary, so I'd like to give him some
pointers on how Squeak can do things  that presentation software can not
(is powerpoint the only one left standing, now?)

There are all the tools in the Objects flap, the Paint flap, connectors,
book morphs which can all be placed into Squeak Projects. That's great.
Is the Thread Navigator the best way to navigate projects? (I saw an
older presentation of Alan's and he had a screen full of projects that
he could pick from. I didn't see that in the latest image)

I see several people use book morphs but they can be cumbersome too. I
think the biggest complaint is the paradigm of when you select an morph
you actually pick it up and that's counter to what other software does -
plus the halos. Guess that's just something to be learned. Another
complaint is you can't just drop a .mov, .wmv or .mp4 in a project. You
can drop mpeg, (but sometimes I have audio distortion which doesn't show
up at all outside in various players.) Maybe Sophie work can migrate to
the main image for .mov/.avi? That'd be nice.

I guess an image could be constructed with a limited world menu
restricted to "presentation" uses.

Any other pointers that you can think of? I'd sure like for him start
using squeak.

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El 4/17/07 2:24 PM, "Brad Fuller" <[hidden email]> escribió:

> (I saw an
> older presentation of Alan's and he had a screen full of projects that
> he could pick from. I didn't see that in the latest image)

Return again in FunSqueak3.10, when we was in beta could have some better
what pict

About the whole theme of the mail, Squeak as presentation vehicle, I see if
I could persuade some student for doing a tutorial, but is not a sure thing.

Said your friend what email me private and I could share some tricks

Cheers

Edgar

Edgar J. De Cleene wrote: Thanks Edgar. Could you share the tricks here? I'd like to know too!

El 4/17/07 3:33 PM, "Brad Fuller" <[hidden email]> escribió:

> Thanks Edgar. Could you share the tricks here? I'd like to know too!
The easy and rewarding way, as always I said is:

Take your own kid.
Look for a Spanish speaking kid near to you.
Today go http://ar.geocities.com/edgardec2001/NavidadMorph.htm , here you
and the two kids learn how to do a Christmas gift Squeak way, the two kids
learn a different culture, you start to change the world for good.


To business:
In Workspace type TextMorph boldAuthoringPrototype openInHand.
following Squeak convention , press blue button, raise halo.
Select "debug" button.
Make own subclas, I choose NavidadMorph as name.
Raise halo again, select browse morph class, you must have a Hierarchy
Browser like the pict in page.

In particular, you are interested in stepping and presenter methods.
"step" is all what you Morph could do when Squeak give power to it.
"stepTime" is when in milliseconds Squeak give power to it. ^1000 means what
Squeak power your Morph once each second.


To be continued....

Edgar