[Q]Player Protocol tiles(& user extensions)

Cheryl Denise Seals seals at csgrad.cs.vt.edu
Mon Mar 31 18:31:35 UTC 2003


Thanks Ned,

I generally use classic tiles (since I like to add parameters)
and switch to text mode, which is great for my use
but I want to add tiles to categories to add a few methods that I've
found useful for novices after doing a small study with about a dozen
teachers... Cheryl

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Monday 31 March 2003 09:59 am, Cheryl Denise Seals wrote:
> > I've found about 3 ways to bring up tiles
> >
> > Inspect Morph -> Player Protocol tile
> >
> > On on Morph bring up it's Halo -> Select Debug -> Player Protocol
> > (tiles)
> >
> > -Cheryl
> >
>
> Ah. Do you have the preference "universalTiles" selected in your
> project? (note that if you do any scripting in a project using
> universal tiles, you can't get back to classic tiles in that
> project).
>
> As I understand it, Universal Tiles are/were an experimental
> alternative to the Classic Tiles and the straight Smalltalk source
> code. But I don't know that they've been kept up to date (for
> instance, I can't add a parameter to a script in the uniTiles mode).
>
> My conclusion has been that if you want to do scripting you're better
> off using the Classic tiles and switching to text mode when
> necessary. Now that scripts can take a parameter, user-written
> scripts can be (almost?) first-class citizens.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
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>
>
>



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