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

[Derek O'Connell]

On 01/11/11 18:00, Derek O'Connell wrote:
> 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).

Ticket updated. The comment I had seen was to do with nested recordings, 
so unrelated to this issue.

>
> -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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