Color Property Sheet

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): Halo: Color Properties Sheet Properties Sheets provide tools to customize the appearance of objects from Supplies and from the Object Catalog. Click on an Ellipse in Supplies for your experiments. Right click to open the Ellipse's Halo and then click on its magenta handle. Click the + in the top border of your Ellipse's color palette to open its full Properties Sheet. These Properties include: solid fill, gradient fill, radial fill, direction and origin, border color, style and width, adding a drop shadow with options for its color and offset distance. This gigantic Ellipse's color properties have been changed ten ways: color gradient fill second color radial fill radial fill origin radial fill direction border width reduced to 0 drop shadow added drop shadow width selected drop shadow new color chosen. Experiments with these properties will build a vocabulary of ideas that make your projects look the way you imagine.