[squeakland] problem with location of Etoys players

[Steve Thomas]

Lou,

Are you sure the blob of tomato sauce is embedded in the playfield?  To get
the blob's halo then click on the menu and select "embed..." from the list.
The item highlighted in red will be the object it is embedded in.

Stephen

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at labrunda.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an Etoys project I call Pizza Pi.  The idea is to calculate
> the value of Pi by randomly shooting blobs of tomato sauce at a pizza.  The
> pizza is in a box.  The radius if the pizza is one foot (or one anything)
> and just fits in the box.  Given these simple dimensions, Pi can be
> calculated by the formula Pi = (blobsThatHitPizza * 4) / (blobsThatHitPizza
> + blobsThatMissPizza).  The blobs that miss the pizza are confined to the
> box.
>
> I am doing this with blobs of sauce that shoot toward the pizza box and
> then jump to a random spot in the box.  The problem is that when I try to
> calculate this random spot the position of the box or the blob is not what
> I expect.  If I grab a blob and move it to the bottom of the playfield its
> y position is -85?  I have origin-at-center turned off in the playfield
> options, so I would expect the bottom edge of the playfield to be zero not
> -85.
>
> I must be missing something, so can someone please clear this up for me.
> Thanks.
>
> Lou
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