On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:04 AM, James Ashley wrote:

How-dee!

I'm working my way through PBE (no, I've been too broke lately to buy a copy yet *blush*, but I will) and a few other smalltalk tutorials.

there is no problem. The pdfs version is for that :)

I've read the documents about getting halos activated in the first place. I'm on linux, where alt-shift middle-click (I'm still trying to get the button colors down) generally works.

In the lights out sample, it doesn't. I can ctrl-shift "left" click, get a giant menu, and select "Add Halo." That puts a halo around the individual cell. If I close it, it disappears and shows a blue background (which I'm starting to suspect is a default for morphics...is that close?).

Strange I do not get it. normally the halso should be displayed when you click and option shift (but I'm on mac)

If I jump back through the "Add Halo" hoops on that background, or actually manage to click on the border, I just get what seems to be halos for the desktop (system? background? It's always frustrating to start learning a new system and not know the terminology...then again, that's part of the fun).

I've been able to close the morphic by adding a "self owner delete" mouse down handler to the cells, then commenting it out until I need it. But it's more than a little painful.

I spent about two hours today googling for variations on "morphics decorated frames", but the results I got suggested that I'm not even in the ballpark.

I'm sorry if I missed an FAQ or didn't dig far enough back in the mailing list archives.

Thanks in advance, James

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