[Squeakland] Little problem (update)

[Charles Starrett]

I saw the same behavior of two lines being drawn at once with my own  
(clean) recreation of your script.  On further experimentation, I  
observed that the base of the triangle which is drawn when "batch  
pen" trails is true, is in fact the line between the end-points of  
the two sides that appear to be drawn at once when "batch pen" is  
false.  In addition, the balloon help for "batch pen" states:

> if true, detailed movement of pens between display updates is  
> ignored.  Thus multiple line segments drawn within a script may not  
> be seen individually.

I think there's a correlation -- a problem with something (display or  
otherwise) not being updated at the correct time.

An experiment to back up this theory: Turn "batch pen" on again, and  
raise the pencil count test up to 5 or more, and click the script  
firing button.  You will see that the pencil does indeed get around  
to finishing the square.  The errant diagonal is only drawn on the  
first two iterations.  What should have been the first two sides  
eventually get drawn after the third and fourth sides in this  
scenario.  This must be a bug somewhere in eToys.

One other note for people who understand the underpinnings of eToys  
better than I: this errant behavior is exhibited both through the  
firing button and through the "run this command once" exclamation  
button at the top-left corner of the script window.  Only clicking on  
the clock gives the correct behavior.

Sorry to raise more questions than answers. Although I love  
troubleshooting, I'm a newbie myself.

Best,
Charles


On Mar 1, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Kelly wrote:
> I have discovered what the problem was. The batch pen trails option  
> was on for my playfield causing some of the lines not do be shown.  
> But I am still not sure why this only happened when I used a button  
> to fire the script.
>
> However I now have another problem. When I fire the script with a  
> button it draws the first two sides at the same time and then draws  
> the others. I want to be able to see all of the lines being drawn  
> (like it does when you start it manually). Is this normal? Or is  
> there something else I need to do, that I have not yet discovered?  
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
> Kelly
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