[Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting

[Juliano Bittencourt]

   Yet knowing that the kids usually paints the entire drawing in one 
piece, I think that making the onion skin smaller would not solve the 
problem. It also must be considered that the XO display is very small 
and the students usually draws using the touchpad, which makes precise 
moves difficult.  Having a smaller onion skin would make even more 
difficult to draw in the XO.
    But, the idea of creating a tool where children can cut parts of a 
drawing and transform them in objects sounds very interesting. This 
would make possible to the child to paint an entire scene, and after 
that decide what is an object and what is background.

subbukk escreveu:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007 6:44 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>   
>>> Since Etoys is all about encouraging kids to assemble widgets,
>>> shouldn't the
>>> default size be reduced? I tried various sizes and found 320x300 to
>>> be a nice
>>> default. It leaves enough of the screen estate visible (for picking
>>> colors)
>>> while giving enough area to draw small objects.
>>>
>>> defaultPaintingExtent
>>> 	^320 @ 300
>>>       
>> Interesting thought, in particular since we still have the full-
>> screen drawing capability for the background (the World's paint halo-
>> handle).
>>     
> The onion skin is resizable so advanced squeakers can adapt it to their needs. 
> It is just that a large skin encourages beginners to use Etoys like a 
> painting program. The skin should act as a mould ("build a new part") and not 
> a canvas.
>
> Unfortunately, the Etoy demo reinforces the canvas metaphor by painting wheels 
> separately on the car :-(. Instead, a wheel could have been painted once and 
> made into a stamp, and then stamped four times around the car.
>
> Regards .. Subbu
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