Self-interest April 2010

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4 discussions

Keyboard Issues - Attempt #3
by Russell Allen 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hi guys, I've had a bit of a problem replicating the errors you are getting so I've made a test fix which is somewhat of a nuclear option - it now ignores all modifier keys. If this works, then I will have a better idea of what the problem is. Could helpful testers please download and try: http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.4/beta3/Clean-4.4.beta3.snap Many thanks! Russell

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Possible fix for Linux Keyboards
by Russell Allen 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi guys, Could those of you having problems with non-USA keyboards on Linux please download and try the snapshot at http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.4/beta2/Clean-4.4.beta2.snap and let me know how you go? Cheers, Russell

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Propogating slot changes in Morphs
by Chris Double 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

When doing the scrolling changes in my image I added a slot to WorldMorph to hold the current point when initiating the scroll. The methods in the WorldMorph traits object used this to read/write and do scrolling. This didn't change existing WorldMorphs since they are clones of WorldMorph and the data slots are actually held in the morph, not a parent slot. So I manually re-added the slot in all existing WorldMorph's to prevent errors when the WorldMorph trait methods were called. Is there a way to do this automatically when adding/changing slots in a Morph? What's the idiom in Self for dealing with this sort of thing? Chris. -- http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz

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Scrolling worlds
by Chris Double 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

I like the way Self worlds work with the 'infinite size' approach, and using radar morphs, etc to get a birds eye view and scroll around. I do find it a bit difficult to quickly scroll the world in some direction to get a bit of extra space though. I decided to try some things out and lately I've been using a small change to scroll the world by dragging with the right mouse button. I have a patch to do it here: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/self/scroll-world.patch It is also in my github repository in the 'scroll-world' branch: http://github.com/doublec/self/tree/scroll-world With this patch applied you can right click and drag the world background to move around. I chose right click since left click is already taken with selection of morphs. This model of scrolling would also work quite well on a touchscreen based device. Adding kinetic scrolling would be interesting for 'flicking' the desktop around. Is there functionality that does something like this already in the Self system? Does anyone have their own 'hacks' for moving around the world? Chris. -- http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz

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Self-interest April 2010