Working with Layers

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): Books: Working with Layers of Objects. Open a Book from Supplies. Everything is an Object. You can open Halos and use the handles, menus, and script tiles for any thing. Right click in the middle of your book to open the book's halo and then, in the same place, right click again to open the page's halo. Right click on your book's top border icons and find Halo handles for: Alignment, Page Controls, and ThreePhaseButton. Open Viewers and experiment with script tiles and menus. Put an ellipse in your book; the ellipse is on a page and the page is in a book. Try: open a halo for the book, the page, and the ellipse. Read the labels so you know which layer's halo you have selected. Change things using halo handles for the book, the page, and the ellipse. frog traced image from www.free-nature-photos.org. You decide what options will be best for your projects.