Hi, Randy,
There's no direct feature for doing this right now, though it's
easy enough to add one -- load in the attached project, for example --
it adds an item "snapshot pen trails" to the various
pen-trails-related menus for a playfield; please try it out and see
what you think.
By the way, when you do use one of the screen-grabbing tools to
create a new "Sketch," from pen-trails or from anything else
on the screen, here's a way you can get rid of those "more pixels
than you really want"...
From the halo menu of the SketchMorph created by the grab, choose
"painting..." and from the resulting submenu...
choose "erase pixels of color". Now you'll be
presented with a cursor; click on the color of the superfluous
background you want to erase, and voilą! -- just what you wanted.
And notice that the resulting Sketch is smartly trimmed down
accordingly.
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 2:09 PM -0500 5/25/05, Randy Heiland wrote:
Hi Squeakers,
In Etoys, can I make some drawing that was the result of a script
become an
object? For example, consider the simple circle-drawing script
(fwd by,
turn by, pen down). Can I somehow treat that resulting circle as
an object
and thereby make copies of it, etc? I realize that I could use
either the
'Grab Patch' or 'Lasso' in the Supplies to manually "select"
the circle,
however that approach of course gives me
more pixels than I really want.
Thanks, Randy