[Etoys] Tip: tuning values in tiles

[Timothy Falconer]

Hi all,

I've added this to the "secrets" page on the squeakland wiki.  Someday  
secrets will make it into more formal documentation.

http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Secrets

Take care,
Tim

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Timothy Falconer
Immuexa Corporation
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On Apr 8, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Takashi Yamamiya wrote:

> I stole this feature from Pure Data.
> I'm glad you found it!
>
> Cheers,
> - Takashi
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jerome Peace
> <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Ho,
>> Thats a good one.
>>
>> I played.
>> Turns out it gets better.
>> Just holding the mouse down over the arrow will cause it to repeat  
>> incrementing.
>>
>> Moving the arrow up (once pressed over a button) makes it act like  
>> a vertical slider for the value.
>> This is funny when used for the x position but the y position works  
>> just as if you were holding the morph.
>>
>> Good find. A Easter Egg during holy week. :)
>>
>> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Etoys] Tip: tuning values in tiles
>>> To: squeakland at squeakland.org
>>> Cc: etoys at lists.laptop.org
>>> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 8:29 AM
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I learnt a tip from an eight-year old today ;-).
>>>
>>> I used to click up/down arrows to change values of a
>>> numeric tile - force of
>>> habit. Just go click-click-click.
>>>
>>> A simpler way to change is to hold the left (red) button
>>> down when the pointer
>>> hovers above the arrows and move the mouse up and down.
>>>
>>> HTH .. Subbu
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