[squeakland] Etoys and Connectors package programming...

[Steve Thomas]

Lawson,

Also with what object did you associate the "self hide" script?

When you "tell all outgoing connectors" to run a script the script that
gets run is associated with the connector (not the object connected at the
destination of the connector).

Now if you use "tell all succesors" then the script that is run is that of
the connectors destination/

So in the example below:
*Rectangle:script1* - Will cause *Arrow2:script1* to execute, causing the
ellipse to change color
*Rectangle:script2* - Will cause *Ellipse:script1* to execute, causing the
ellipse to turn by 5

[image: Inline image 1]

Hope this helps,
Stephen


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

>  Hi.
>
> I'm trying to use the Connectors package within EToys to generate a
> complicated movie.
>
> First step: create a graph of nodes with connections between them (done
> -or at least, doable).
>
> Second step: manipulate connectors with scripts from within EToys.
>
> and... nothing.
>
> I've located the script "tell all outgoing connectors" associated with a
> single node. I've created a script with the code
>
> ^self hide
>
> and associated it with the "tell all outgoing connectors" and "tell all
> incoming connectors" scripts and attempted to fire it once.
>
> Nothing happens.
>
> Ok, so I tried a different script:
>
> hide.
>
> ^ self.
>
>
>
> Nothing happens.
>
> I know how to use Connectors directly within Squeak. I've made youtube
> tutorials on how to figure out how to do arbitrary stuff with Connectors at
> teh Squeak level using the debugging tools. I'm stymied at step 2 using
> EToys.
>
>
> :-/
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> L
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