[squeakland] text conversation in etoys

[Bill Kerr]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:

>  Hi, Bill,
>
> > I'm trying to setup a text based dialogue b/w 2 objects
> >
> > I dragged out two Text objects from Supplies, named them first and second
> >
> > The best I can do is write a series of scripts for the Text objects, one
> script for each part of the conversation
> >
> > Then I made a clock with a time variable and setting the ticker to one
> per second
> >
> > Then write a controller script, using world
> > Test: clock's time > 2
> >  Yes: first do script1
> > Test: clock's time > 4
> >  Yes: second do script1
> > Test: clock's time > 6
> >  Yes: first do script 2
> >
> > Also made a reset script, using world
> >
> > Is there a better way?
>
>   Another way is to put each part of conversation in a Holder (as
> TextMorphs) and assign the phrase at the cursor to "first" and
> "second".  See
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Conversation.002.pr
>
> (and at the showcase once it appears)
>
> In this way, you don't have to edit the script at all when you want to
> modify the conversation.
>


thanks Yoshiki, that's easier to manage

the problem is that I can't see any way to slow the time down below 1 tick
per second
that's faster than a conversation ought to go!



>
> -- Yoshiki
>
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