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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.

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Halo
Supplies
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Books
ScriptTile
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Menu
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   Painting
   Ticks Per Second
   Bring to Front
   Decimal Places
   Grid and Snap to Grid
NavBarHideShow, page 1. Navigator Bar: Hide or Show the                           Navigator Bar 

This option is useful for projects made with other versions of Etoys.

Click the icon at the top of Etoys to hide the Navigator Bar.
NavBarHideShow, page 2. Click the tab in your Etoys window to show the Navigator Bar again.
NavBarHideShow, page 3. A recent version of Etoys had a dark green Navigator Bar.

An earlier version, called Squeak, had red and gold flaps.  Images from: www.EtoysIllinois.org.
NavBarHideShow, page 4. Squeak 2.0.  Squeak 1.0.  Squeak 4.0.  Squeak 3.0.  Find out what version of Etoys you are using right now.

Get a menu on the World: right-click on the background and choose 'about this system'.

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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): Navigator Bar: Hide or Show the Navigator Bar This option is useful for projects made with other versions of Etoys. Click the icon at the top of Etoys to hide the Navigator Bar. Click the tab in your Etoys window to show the Navigator Bar again. A recent version of Etoys had a dark green Navigator Bar. An earlier version, called Squeak, had red and gold flaps. Images from: www.EtoysIllinois.org. Squeak 2.0. Squeak 1.0. Squeak 4.0. Squeak 3.0. Find out what version of Etoys you are using right now. Get a menu on the World: right-click on the background and choose 'about this system'.