Ok, while making a project for a class I'm taking, I ran into a bit of a problem: basically, it amounts to not being able to print actual text on the screen. It would be nice to be able to have text outputted to the screen, and not specialized images that take up space.
Basically, the new block that handles actualt text would be only usable in the Stage sprite. Similar to the Pen or Looks blocks, you could set font face, size, color, and then output location. The text would then output directly to the screen with the formats you've chosen.
I can't make heads or tails of the Squeak programming environment, even with my C and ObjC programming experience. It doesn't seem that hard to do for a fairly experienced developer. Or, if someone could point me to tutorials as to how to use it, I could develop it on my own.
Thanks
~OmtraSpectral
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... or you could let a sprite "say" or "think" the text you'd like to show. If you just want the speech-bubble without showing the sprite, you can set the sprite's ghost effect to something like 99, which will effectively hide it, or switch to a really tiny costume (e.g. one that's just a single pixel).
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Jens wrote:
... or you could let a sprite "say" or "think" the text you'd like to show. If you just want the speech-bubble without showing the sprite, you can set the sprite's ghost effect to something like 99, which will effectively hide it, or switch to a really tiny costume (e.g. one that's just a single pixel).
The problem is that I don't want the bubble, and I want finer control over what's displayed on the screen without having to make images for each possible situation. Check out the two projects I have up. The math one required 145 sprites in a single object.
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