Re: LOGO-L> MW file size

["Gary S. Stager" <gstager@pepperdine.edu>]

Good to hear some good news John!

>I'm trying to find ways to cut down on file size with student electronic
>storybooks made with MicroWorlds 2.0 on a Macintosh, so I can put some on
>my school web page.  I thought I had read somewhere that text boxes take up
>more memory than stamped text, so I decided to check it out.  To my
>surprise, a 5 page storybook took up 176K with text boxes and 254K with
>stamped text and the text boxes deleted with the scissors tool after
>stamping.  

Open textboxes use up RAM, not disk space. The RAM use is tied to the 
fact that textboxes also behave like reporters - constantly yelling out 
their contents. Your interesting experiment has explainable results. 
Stamped text becomes a graphic. Graphics take up more diskspace than 
text...

>However, when I used the LCSI tools for converting to HTML, they
>both ended up being about 235K (239,983 bytes made from text boxes and
>240,008 bytes made from stamped text).  

Your project gets boiled down to a .gif when you convert to HTML. That's 
why both files are the same size.

>I'm having fun doing this.  I even
>figured out how to edit the HTML on the MW page to include a button to link
>back to the school web page after reading the MW storybook.  As soon as I
>get student and parent permission to post the stories, I'll share the URL
>for those interested.

Sounds great!!
>
>I'm still hoping that LCSI will create a Mac plugin similar to the Windows
>plugin that will allow me to post the cool animations my students are
>creating with MW.  Right now I'm limited to stories with no animation or
>sound.
Keep bugging LCSI. Everyone should remind them as often as possible how 
many Mac users there are out there. 

-=Gary
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