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

[Derek O'Connell]

On 01/11/11 17:52, Steve Thomas wrote:
> Same problem when you use a simple watcher for a "player variable" and
> click on that to select the player.

and yet the colour picker halo on a rec morph works ok. So that might a 
starting point for a solution, although I've seen a comment in recording 
code that suggests things are limited when it comes to recursive 
recording (now trying to relocate that comment).

-D

>
> 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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