Hi all,
Two other solutions are available:
1) You can embed a playfield into a object of your choice (e.g. the rectangle). It goes with just a little bit of struggle (use the grab halo handle to move the playfield).
2) The other is from the red menu halo choose Extras...>put in a window. The playfield gets set into a system window which can be moved. The color of the playfield gets changed to transparent or white in the process but you can probably fiddle with that. To then get the viewer for the playfield you would probably have to halo click a couple of times to hone in on it. Of course the lazy way would be to get the viewer on the playfield and then put it in a window. :-)
HTH,
Yours in service, -Jerome Peace
[Squeakland] group objects Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org Sat Mar 10 15:26:07 PST 2007 wrote:
And of course, you can get out a playfield, fiddle
with
its options to allow it to be picked up, make it transparent,
etc.,
then put it back in supplies, and it will form a prototype of
this
kind of playfield.
You can also use shift-drag to pick up a group of graphic objects to put them in the playfield. (This could be a
smoother
smarter operation than the current situation in Etoys.)
Cheers,
Alan
At 04:53 AM 3/10/2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Err, you're right - use a playfield to construct
the
script. However,
once the script is there, you could actually
replace
the playfield
tile with a rectangle tile and it will still work.
Or
even better,
drop a "line's holder" tile into its place ...
This is what I did when I tried it. The reason I
preferred a
Rectangle is that you can pick it up with all its
contents. For a
playfield you would have to fiddle with its
options in
the halo menu
to achieve this.
- Bert -
On Mar 10, 2007, at 12:54 , Randy Heiland wrote:
Thanks Bert. Ah yes, it's coming back to me.
However, don't I
need to use a Playfield as my "container"
object?
I followed your
instructions - drawing a rectangle and
embedding my
line into it.
But then I couldn't find a "rectangle include"
tile
in any of the
categories - is it there and I just missed it?
In
a playfield,
it's in the Collections category.
On Mar 10, 2007, at 3:45 AM, Bert Freudenberg
wrote:
On Mar 10, 2007, at 2:40 , Randy Heiland
wrote:
Apologies if I've asked this in the past and
forgot... am I able to
group/join together multiple objects into a
composite object?
Sure, "embed" them into one "container"
object.
That can be any
object, like a Rectangle, or an Ellipse may
look
nice, or just
make it transparent.
I'd like to:
- paint a fat line
- script to: rotate it and make copies
- treat all lines as a single object
Make a Rectangle. Draw the fat line on top of
it.
From the Line's
halo menu choose "embed into ... Rectangle".
Now
when grabbing the
rectangle, the line moves with it. Then make a
script like "Line
turnBy: 30. Rectangle include: Line's copy."
and
you're fine to go.
- Bert -
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