Its nice to be inspiring ;)   Thanks for having a go at it.  I'm interested in what you came up with but I am tied up till the weekend.  I'll have a look then. 

cheers -ben

Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

Hi Ben,

I hacked a bit on this today, inspired by your lead:

https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13201/Hard-to-start-a-tutorial-in-Pharo

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Name: SLICE-Issue-13201-SLICE-Issue-13201-Hard-to-start-a-tutorial-in-Pharo-SvenVanCaekenberghe.1
Author: SvenVanCaekenberghe
Time: 30 April 2014, 4:49:11.694825 pm
UUID: 02f94c7a-1998-4364-a7d8-ddbe4c5c3973
Ancestors: 
Dependencies: HelpSystem-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.109, ProfStef-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.37

Improve the user experience of running the Pharo[Syntax]Tutorial aka ProfStef by:

- adding a simplified (do it/print it/inspect it) menu to the HelpBrowser contents view
- adding inspect it to the LessonView menu
- adding a lesson about inspection, PharoSyntaxTutorial>>#inspecting
- change the doing/printing/inspecting lesson titles
- make PharoTutorial/ProfStef #next and #previous work for both the standalone LessonView and the tree based HelpBrowser (apart and together) without opening a new one
- make HelpBrowser>>#onItemClicked: deselect in the text view

This needs a review; some hacking was involved.
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Sven

On 30 Apr 2014, at 12:43, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:

  

Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
    

Ben,

He is right, it is a problem when you go to the tutorial via the Browse tutorial tool:

And yes there is already an issue but it was temporary closed because the welcome space's first expression helps a bit.
      

I had a little look at it. I naively tried...
    HelpBrowser>>initWindow
         contentMorph := self defaultViewerClass on: self 
            text: nil 
            accept: nil
            readSelection: nil 
            menu: #codePaneMenu:shifted:.  "<--replaces nil" 

    HelpBrowser>>codePaneMenu: aMenu
            ^ aMenu addAllFrom: SmalltalkEditor yellowButtonMenu

But while it shows a menu, the DoIt opens a new window rather than changing the text in the help browser.  Digging further, HelpBrowser >> helpTopic eventually uses PharoTutorialHelpTutorialBuilder to convert Lessons into HelpTopics - and so with the current architecture there seems not possible for the #next sent to PharoTutorial to change the HelpTopic displayed in the HelpBrowser. 

The options I can guess are: 
1. Strip the "PharoTutorial next" from the bottom of each lesson and have the LessonView >> showLesson:withTitle: append "PharoTutorial next" to the text of each Lesson.
2. Lessons are not converted to HelpTopics. Instead use or wrap PharoTutorial directly and link its #lessonView:  to  the HelpBrowser somehow.
3. Somehow use announcements.

cheers -ben
    

On 30 Apr 2014, at 07:43, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:

      

David Harris wrote:
        

I reported a problem with the mouse right-click under Windows 7 last January and the 30845 update still exhibits the same behavior.

Selected Pharo Tutorials from the World menu. Expanded Pharo Syntax Tutorial. Clicked Welcome. Highlighted 'PharoTutorial next.' Right-click of mouse does nothing. Fortunately, Alt-D does perform the do-it action. Once the new tutorial window opens, then right-click works as advertised. It is just that first panel where it is non-functional. Unfortunately, that panel tells the user "right-click and choose 'do it (d)'"                
          

That is strange, it works for me on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit with freshly downloaded VM+image
I did this...
1. Downloaded and unzipped http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo3.0-win.zip (dated 2014-04-29).
2. Double clicked pharo.exe
3. World Menu > System > System Reporter
4. In Welcome, highlighted "PharoTutorial go" > right-click > Do it
5. In Tutorial, highlighted "PharoTutorial next" > right-click ---> took the attached snapshot 

cheers -ben

btw do you have the case number?
<PharoTutorial-right-click.png>