[squeakland] text conversation in etoys

[Korakurider]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
    Mouse down on Clock icon of scriptor and select "other" from "Ticks" menu,
    then you could set "Number of ticks per second" to <1 , say 0.5.
>
>>
>> -- Yoshiki
>
>
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