[squeakland] problem with location of Etoys players

[Steve Thomas]

Please send me a copy of your project.

Stephen

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at labrunda.info> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> >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.
>
> The blob of sauce is embedded in the playfield.  The blob of sauce lives in
> a holder.  It is embedded the playfield.  I make a copy of it each time a
> blob of sauce is fired at the pizza.  When I check any of these copies,
> they are also embedded in the playfield.
>
> I have also seen some odd behavior with the movement of the fired blob of
> sauce.  I was trying to make it take a saw edge path from the sauce can to
> the pizza.  I started it off with a direction of 135 (moving from left to
> right).  After moving 25 times, I would change the direction by -90 or 90
> every other time.  When changing the direction by 90, the blob would jump
> to a new location (down and back from where it was).  When changing by -90,
> it would work fine.
>
> Ordinarily I would think the problem would be with my code.  But I have
> been programming in Smalltalk (VA Smalltalk) for many years and this code
> is very simple, so it seems like something odd is going on.
>
> I have dropped the saw pattern idea and adjusted the positions to work.  I
> hard coded points where I was trying to use values from existing objects.
> It works but it is not as general as I would like.  If I move anything, the
> hard coded points have to be fixed.
>
> Lou
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