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A Quick Guide for Etoys on the OLPC XO

Guides about topics in EToys Help screens for the OLPC XO machine. NavBar    Keep Find Projects    Choose a Language Paint    Brushes    Color Palette    Bucket Tool    Straight Line Tool    Ellipse Tool    Rectangle Tool    Polygon Tool    Color Picker    Stamps Tool Halo    Make the Handles Show    Viewer of Script Tiles    Size Color Copy    Move and Pick Up    Rotate Handle    Trash    Arrow at Center    Center of Rotation    Menu Tools    Make a Script Tile    Collapse    Color Property Sheet Supplies    Object Catalog    Text    All Scripts    Joystick Control    Sound Recorder ObjectCat    Slider Bar    Grab Patch Tool    Lasso Tool    Digital Images    Maker Button Books    Top Border Icons    Expanded Controls    Working with Layers    Navigation Tiles ScriptTile    Forward by    Turn by    Bounce Motion    X and Y Tiles    Pen Use    Playfield Trail    Stamps    Heading    Scale Factor    Hide and Show    World Input    Sound Category    Random Numbers    Exact Location    Width Length    Foward and Turn    Tests Category Menu    Normal Ticking    Viewer Icons Set    Scriptor Icons Set    Button Fires a Script    Grab Me Reveal Me    Watchers    Playfield Graph Paper

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Squeak Etoys is a "media authoring tool"-- software that you can download to your computer
and then use to create your own media. You can write out your project and share it with others.
Etoys runs on any Mac or Windows machine, as well as on the OLPC XO machine.
It is free.    Find out about Etoys.

Text of this guide (for searching): Script Tiles. Navigator Bar. Object Catalog. Halo Handles. Books. Menus. Supplies. Paint Tools. Etoys Quick Guides. Each guide is an interactive book created to help you learn one useful tool, tile, or technique. The ideas in these guides can be combined and recombined to create many kinds of projects. You can create projects about any subject. Make puzzles, games, animations, simulations, and visualizations. Some of the most basic books are listed first. The guides are arranged in sets but it is not necessary to read them in any particular order. Try a few and then follow your imagination and look for the guides that help you travel new paths. Etoys is a tool to explore ideas. Go forward boldly and if something isn't working the way you want, think again. Or, close Etoys and start again. There are always surprises when you learn new things. Wonder why. Wonder how. Wonder.