[etoys-dev] Problem with Event Theatre makes re creating Demon Castle Parts 2 and 3 more challenging

Steve Thomas sthomas1 at gosargon.com
Tue Nov 1 13:52:46 EDT 2011


Same problem when you use a simple watcher for a "player variable" and
click on that to select the player.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Derek O'Connell <doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk>wrote:

> On 01/11/11 15:34, Steve Thomas wrote:
>
>> Okay,  clarification to the problem.
>> Problem only occurs when you click on the eye dropper to try and pick a
>> color then click in the painting pallette.
>>
>> If you hover over the painting pallete and pick a color it works. So this
>> is a work around for showing parts of drawing (sans color picker).
>>
>
> I suspect this has something to do with the fact that the event player
> emulates the cursor while the colour-picker uses the real cursor, hence it
> comes to standstill awaiting real user input. Tricky interactions going on.
>
> Also, have you noticed you have to close the painter before ending the
> recording otherwise the painter gets thrown out to the desktop. Thereafter,
> until you close the painter (which in my case was hidden behind the
> event-theatre) playback fails to open it. There can only be one painter
> open at any time.
>
> -D
>
>
>
>> Stephen
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Steve Thomas<sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  Problem occurred for me in Etoys 4.1 build 2390 on Mac OS X 10.6.8
>>> Also ran with ?4.1.2?  "about this system" from help menu shows "etoys
>>> 4.1
>>> latest update #2397 (repo v1505 of 26 October 2011)" and had the same
>>> problem on my Mac.
>>>
>>> Added comment to tracker, later today I will try on Windows 7 machine.
>>> and
>>> update Tracker.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Derek O'Connell<doc at doconnel.f9.co.**uk<doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk>
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  On 01/11/11 03:30, Steve Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   See http://tracker.squeakland.org/****browse/SQ-998<http://tracker.squeakland.org/**browse/SQ-998>
>>>>> <http://**tracker.squeakland.org/browse/**SQ-998<http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-998>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  We had talked about recreating Parts 2 and 3 of Demon Castle, and
>>>>>  while trying to use Event Theatre to record some things I ran into
>>>>>  this bug.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Stephen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  This body part will be downloaded on demand.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Steve, I've put a comment on the bug report about it being ok in
>>>> 4.1.2alpha5. What version are you using?
>>>>
>>>> -D
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