<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Well, often in Etoys you need a slight shift in perspective to make the solution fit a lot better. Approaches from other systems do not always map well.</div><div><br></div><div>E.g., a typical approach to implement PacMan would be to have PacMan object with a script to eat peas. In Etoys it's a lot easier for each pea to have a script checking if it was eaten.</div><div><br></div><div>So if you could let us know, in high-level terms, what the intended behavior is, we might be able to come up with ideas how to do that in Etoys.</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">- Bert -</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font><div><div>On 08.04.2011, at 21:40, michael rice wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks.<br><br>One forgets it's not a real-time simulation.<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/8/11, David Corking <i><<a href="mailto:lists@dcorking.com">lists@dcorking.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><br>From: David Corking <<a href="mailto:lists@dcorking.com">lists@dcorking.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Newbies] Re: Randomness + Pause/Delay?<br>To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak." <<a href="mailto:beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org">beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a>><br>Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 2:01 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 michael rice wrote:<br><br>><br>> But the two scripts, blueAction and redAction, in sequence, appear to happen simultaneously.<br>> Is there a delay mechanism, like a marktime tile, that could separate two scripts by a specified<br>> number of ticks? If not,
are there any plans for one?<br><br>I saw these two posts last year. They might help:<br><br><a href="http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2010-October/005888.html" target="_blank">http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2010-October/005888.html</a><br><br><a href="http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2010-October/005887.html" target="_blank">http://lists.squeakland.org/pipermail/etoys-dev/2010-October/005887.html</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span>
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