I'm trying to change (hide initially) the connector itself. That is, the line between node1 and node2 should be hidden initially.

The specific project is to take a fully-connected graph of EEG nodes where color/intensity/thickness represents a specific level of coherence/connectivity ala this image: http://istpp.org/military_science/images/military_figure8.jpg

The goal is to create a movie showing how such connectivity changes over time. I initially want all connections hidden, and then, based on EEG coherence/phase/frequency data, to change the visibility/color/intensity/thickness of the connections as they vary over time.

Apparently, even with experienced EEG researchers, static images don't tell enough of the story to be impressive.

L

On 9/13/13 8:53 PM, Steve Thomas wrote:

Looping in Etoys dev list

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1@gosargon.com mailto:sthomas1@gosargon.com> wrote:

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

Inline image 1

Hope this helps,
Stephen


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