World Input

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 Tile: Use Input from Keyboard Letters and Arrows Keys The world is the light gray screen. Open a halo for the world and find five handles: Viewer Menu Color Make a Tile. Open a Viewer for the world and look at its menu of categories: scripts, variables, color, pen trails, playfield, collections, sound, and input. Input is a way to make objects and their scripts respond to a keystroke rather than a click with the mouse. Draw a shape and make a script. Use the Viewer for the sketch and the Viewer for the world, a test, and combine the tiles into one script. Click the "a" on your keyboard to try this example script. To make the arrow keys work, you must type little brackets <> and the word up, down, left, or right. Click the up arrow on your keyboard to see the effect.