[etoys-dev] Need a Text Object I can set text in and have a MouseDown Script work

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 02:04:01 pm Steve Thomas wrote:
> So I wanted a way to put N items in a holder and have a script that set the
> text values of each item
> based on it's cursor position (aka element number, they always seem to be
> the same, are they?)
> and then as each element is a sibling I can simply have a script that sets
> a particular value in the expression.
You could use a holder for the number grid and drop Text siblings into it. Add 
a script to the holder to set numeric value of each player at cursor to 
cursor's value. E.g.
 Holder setIndex (ticking on):
  Holder's cursor increase by 1.
  (Holder's player at cursor) numeric value <- Holder's cursor.

To get the second line, drop "Text's numeric value" tile into the script and 
then replace Text's with Holder's player at cursor tile. Now each Text Object 
will display its ordinal in the Holder. You may want to turn off 'indicate 
cursor' it Holder's playfield options.

HTH .. Subbu