Invoke · What to do? · it targets
Element 17
17●›
Eq
Equip
Take up a tool, so the next acts mean that tool.
toolbox · tool key · brush
First known
Opened
1963Sketchpad push buttons such as 'erase' or 'move' set what the pen's next acts mean. Sutherland.
Many Sketchpad buttons act once. Persistent tool palettes (SuperPaint, MacPaint) are unverified.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 17 — operate freely
Click the sky with the pencil, then the eraser, then the bucket.
Fig. 17 — Equip
000 readings · idle
Down the Invoke column
- it followsCCommand
- it targetsEqEquip
- it remembersRRun
- it connectsAsAssign
- it guessesTeTell
- it actsDlDelegate
Read down and Command gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Equip takes.
- toolbox
- tool key
- brush