<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Hi Chris,</div><div><br></div><div>It's great that you are interested in this and I enjoyed your video. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry that you seem to have had a few problems with the mechanics of installing, starting and stopping Self.</div><div><br></div><div>(Btw, I'm definately interested in user friendly experiences - so please if there is something obviously wrong to you then speak up)</div><div><br></div><div>Did you try double-clicking the snapshots? I think there may be a bug in the Self VM installer so that the Self droplet is not automatically registering itself with .snap files on installation.</div><div><br></div><div>Essentially the way it should work is that after installing the VM, you should be able to double click the .snap files (like Demo.snap) to run them (or start from the Terminal.app with "Self -s path/to/snapshot.snap"). Each snapshot should behave much like an executable Java .jar file.</div><div><br></div><div>You are certainly not meant to drag and drop each snapshot to the VM in the Library! </div><div><br></div><div>If you want to quit Self, right click on the kansas background to bring up the menu (like in Squeak) and choose quit. Alternatively, if you have started Self from the Terminal.app, then type 'quit' into the Self shell.</div><div><br></div><div>Just as a note, you can also move around Kansas using the scroll wheel on your mouse or, on a Macbook, by scrolling on the trackpad with two windows (in either X or Y dimensions). I find this faster and better than using the mapmorph thingy.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm looking forward to your future videos...</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Russell</div></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 15/08/2009, at 5:26 AM, brassplume wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; width: 655px; position: relative; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi All,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I've made the first Know Your Prototypes - Know Your Self video for the video blog of the same name. It's viewable at the "community" section of<a href="http://www.smalltalktelevision.com" style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); font-family: Verdana; ">http://www.smalltal<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">ktelevision.<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">com</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Chris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></p></div><div width="1" style="line-height: 1.22em; color: white; clear: both; "></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>