[Newbies] How to lay a morph down automatically
David Shaffer
cdshaffer at acm.org
Tue Jul 25 14:27:32 UTC 2006
Mike O'Brien wrote:
> Newly opened morphs seem to arrive in "picked-up" mode,
>attached to the "hand" (cursor). You left-click to drop them.
>
> I went looking for the code that executes when you left
>click on a picked-up morph but couldn't find it.
>
> If I wanted to create a morph programmatically and have
>it start life already laid down somewhere, how would I do that?
>I'm presuming that the same check would get done as to whether it
>were to embed itself in whatever it was laid down on, or just
>sit there. Of course this might wind up embedding it in whatever
>the mouse cursor happened to be sitting on at the moment, which
>would be bad news, since in this case the mouse and the morph
>wouldn't be near each other.
>
> Thanks!
>
>Mike O'Brien
>______________________________________________
>
>
Mike,
Is this what you mean?
HeadMorph new openInWorld
as opposed to
HeadMorph new openInHand
Additional you can position them:
hm := HeadMorph new openInWorld.
hm position: 400 at 300.
Hope that helps...
David
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