Until now we was working usin the "Squeak plugin". Using it you can create projects that everybody, having downloaded the same plugin from the Squeakland site, can use.

But sometimes it's interesting to create projects to be used only at your desktop. At this projects you will have the possibility, by example, to "read" files at your hard disk (using the plugin you can't do it by security reasons).

To download a free copy of this "Squeak for Desktop" you need to go to the site of the squeak.org.

You need to create a new folder (we have created one called: Squeak-desktop) where you unzip the file downloaded, having some new files:

This Squeak version is bigger than the "Squeak plugin", having different resources.

Running the Squeak.exe you will have the Squeak world:

For the creation of a new project click in the world and you will have a menu. Choose: "open..." and in the new menu: "morphic project".

You will have now a new "yellow window". You can define here the name of the project using the menu of the window (not of its halo) and changing its title.

Clicking in the "yellow window" you will have a clear area where you can create your application. By example: we will open a Workspace and a Transcript and write a line of code that can be executed if we drag the pointer over it and, leftclicking over it, opening a menu, we "do it"

Leftclicking over a free space in the world we open again the "World menu" and we can choose: "previous project" to go back to the "main Squeak desktop".

Every Squeak (the "Squeak plugin" or this "Squeak for Desktop") has its main original configuration at a file having the extention .image. Now, we wll create a new "image" that will be our private image. This new "image" will have a new "main Squeak desktop" and our project inside.

To do this, leftclick in the "main Squeak desktop" and choose "save as..." at the "World menu".

Give a name for YOUR image and "accept".

The next time you run the Squeak. exe, a window will open and you will need to choose this new image. If you choose the "original" image it will not have your project inside.

When you quit from your Squeak, you don't need to save it, if you doesn't have noting new to save.

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