[squeakland] point towards the mouse?

[Rita Freudenberg]

Scott Wallace wrote:
> Attached below is another solution, using an invisible "sprite".
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Scott, it is great that you uploaded the projects with your solution to 
the showcase! This is a great way to keep ideas like this and make it 
available for everyone.

Rita
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> On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Scott Wallace wrote:
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>> On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Darius Clarke wrote:
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>>> For point 1 you can use the slope formula m = (y1-y2)/(x1-x2) and then arcTan m to get degrees. 
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>>> arcTan may have to come from Smalltalk mode. 
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>>> Cheers,
>>> Darius
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>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes at edu.ge.ch> wrote:
>>> For point 2.,  you may have to write the script in Smalltalk mode then
>>> use the code
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>>> ActiveHand x to get abscissa of the mouse pointer
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>>> Hilaire
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>>> 2009/11/11 Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com>:
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>>>> 1) Is it possible to get an arrow to point towards the mouse pointer in
>>>> etoys?
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>> FWIW I attach a working example... notice that it's all done with tiles -- no textual scripting.
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>> -- Scott
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