Object Catalog

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): Supplies: The Object Catalog Contains Tools and Objects Ready to Use. Click on an Object Catalog in Supplies. Each button opens a bin of objects and tools. Click on alphabetic to see a list A-Z. Hover over each icon in the top border of your Object Catalog to read the information in the help balloons. Click on an object in the Catalog to get a copy to use in your project. There are more than 100 objects in the Catalog. Some have special tiles to use with them. Try this: Click on a Polygon and open its Viewer to look at the category menu. Select "polygon" to see 13 special tiles to control its behaviors and properties. Some things work now; some must be scripted for the purpose you intend. The broom works now; read its balloon help. Experiment more.