This page is part of the documentation on the MOOseum Tools Project, a collaboration between Kalí Tal and ConnectionsMOO. The purpose of this project is to provide a suite of tools based on a museum metaphor to humanities scholars who are interested in integrating new media technology into their courses. The tools, currently under development, will be distributed freely as a suite, and will run on LambdaCore, JHCore and enCOre MOOs. If you are interested in beta testing these tools, contact Kalí Tal.
Items typed <inside angle brackets> should be typed without the brackets when you give commands on the MOO. For instance, if you saw the following command:
@create #624 named <name of your animatronic>
You would type:
@create #624 MyAnimatronicName
[The generic animatronic, created by Percival/Tari, 8/29/99. Questions, problems, bug reports to Percival/Tari.]
The generic notepad is an object on which you can write notes that you can then email to yourself or to others. It's a lot like the generic note ($note), except that the notepad is much simpler, and, if you're the owner of the notepad, you can email it to others, not just to yourself.
To create your own notepad, make a child of the generic notepad:
create #398 named <name of your notepad>
To read a notepad:
read <notepad>
To email the text of a notepad to yourself:
mail <notepad> to me
Commands for notepad owners
To email the contents of your notepad to someone else
mail <notepad> to <person>
"Person" is the MOO character name of the person you want to email the text of your notepad to.
Note that when you mail your notepad's text to someone, it will show up in that person's mailbox with your registered email address on the From: line. So you can't use the notepad to send mail anonymously, and you should not use it to sendmail to anyone you don't trust with your email address.
There are two ways to write on your notepad:
The command
@edit <notepad>
allows you to edit your notepad the same way you edit children of $note, sending you to the in-MOO editor, or, if you're using client editing, to your local editor.
The command
write "<your text>" on <notepad>
allows you to enter a line of text on the document without going to an editor. Don't forget the quotation marks around your text!
(The `write' command is most useful with the notepad, since it's intended to be used as something you can carry around and jot down quick comments in rather than as a place to put long texts.)
To delete a line from a notepad:
erase <line number> from <notepad>
For example:
erase 4 from notebook
Note that each time you delete a line, the lines get renumbered, so use `lines <notepad>' (see below) before each erase command to make sure you're going to erase the right line!
To get the line numbers for the lines on a notepad:
lines <notepad>
To erase all the text from a notepad:
clear <notepad>
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