Re: [squeakland] text conversation in etoys

At Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:42:52 +1030, Bill Kerr wrote:

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.

thanks! I did actually try that but only tried .1 and not 0.1 if i don't put the zero there then there is an error message

That could be considered a bug.

Alternatively, you can say:

Holder's cursor increase by 0.1

There, you can type ".1" and it accepts it to mean "0.1".

The tick rate is not modifiable from Etoys, but the argument for "increase by" is if you use a variable. In this way, you can have a slider for example to control the speed of conversation (or it can even go backwards).

-- Yoshiki