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Video Tutorials

Wherever you see the eye icon on this site,
it is a link to a video tutorial.
 

Hint: The tutorials suggest that you should right-click to see an object's 'handles'.  On Windows computers, you need to click with the scroll wheel, or alternatively hold ALT and click with the left button to see the handles.  The right button will pick an object up and move it.

	Painting an Object Click on the Make a Painting icon at the top of the main window, and select the brush tool. Paint a simple car from a top down view. Click Keep when you have finished. Hold Alt and click on the car to see its handles. (or you can often just sit your mouse on top of an object and the handles will appear) Name it car.  Hold your mouse over each of the handles to see what they do.
	The Viewer Click on the car's viewer handle to open its properties window. Clicking the yellow exclamation mark will cause that behaviour to happen once. Holding your mouse down on the exclamation mark will cause it to happen continually until you release the mouse button. You can change values for the behaviours and the car will respond. Or you can use the car's handles to rotate or move the car, and the property values will change automatically.
	Making a Script Drag out the forward and turn behaviours onto the desktop.  This will form a script. Click on its clock to make it run.
	Driving the Car You can learn how to drive the car by playing the EToys Challenge game that comes with EToys.   Controlling the Car with a Steering Wheel and Driving Along a Road You can learn how to control the car using a steering wheel and follow a line by following the instructions available on the Squeakland site at http://www.squeakland.org/sqmedia/books/kimbjbook.html   Although the book was written for a slightly different version of EToys, the instructions and activities will still be almost identical.

Saving Your Finished Projects

To save your work click on the icon. 

By default, EToys saves all your files into your 'journal', which is located in the My Squeak folder.  To get a file back, simply click on the icon. 

If you want to save your work somewhere else, hold your mouse down on the icon and further publish options will pop up.

Choose Publish to a Different Server, then choose the place to save your file. 

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This page has been produced by Margaret Meijers.  Questions concerning its content may be directed by email to margaret.meijers@education.tas.gov.au.  This page was last modified on Sunday, 17 August 2008. The URL for this page is http://mindtools/squeak/getting_started.htm .

 
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