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KidsRuby is a Ruby programming environment meant for kids to learn and have fun!
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Copying code from the help panel is too convoluted #81

Closed shviller closed 10 years ago

shviller commented 12 years ago

First of all, thanks for KidsRuby, it certainly looks like the best way to learn Ruby. However, a problem I've seen in Hackety Hack returns, partially. In HH, you couldn't select code snippets at all. In KidsRuby, at least on Windows, to execute the code given in the lessons, you need to:

  1. hover the mouse over the snippet
  2. notice the 'text' link and click it
  3. select the code
  4. right-click it and select the only menu item: 'copy'
  5. paste into the editor
  6. click 'Run'

This (hopefully) could be improved in several ways:

  1. make line numbers separate somehow, so they aren't selected along with the code in html mode
  2. make the platform-appropriate shortcut for copy work for the snippets too (I also noticed the editor's and help panel's selections are separate. I bet it'll get in the way).
  3. add a 'run' link to each snippets, a-la _why's Shoes.

(Oh, and by the way, what is the 'popup' link supposed to do? For me it merely scrolls the help page to the top.)

hunterboerner commented 10 years ago

Closing do to old age. Please retest on latest KidsRuby version and if problem persists, reopen the issue with details.