Hi,Bill

You'll find the tiles mouseX and mouseY in the playfield category of a playfield or of the world.

get an arrow fom object catalog/graphics

move the ble rotation handle sligtly to make te center or rotation visible and move it shift/drag to the foot of the arrow. get the viewer of the arrow category polygon, et the arrow's vertex .cursor to 2 (head of the arrow).

now just build the tiles :

arrow's x at cursor _ playfield's mousex arrow's y at cursor _ playfield's mousey

You probably just need to find where the tiles mouse and mousey were lying, but this will help other people.

Regards

-----Original Message----- From: "Hilaire Fernandes" [hilaire.fernandes@edu.ge.ch] Date: 11/11/2009 02:51 AM To: "Bill Kerr" billkerr@gmail.com CC: "squeakland.org mailing list" squeakland@squeakland.org Subject: Re: [squeakland] point towards the mouse?

You may have to write something like that

script1 self setHeading: (self costume referencePosition bearingToPoint: ActiveHand x @ ActiveHand y)

This example does not work yet, but you get the idea.

Hilaire

2009/11/11 Hilaire Fernandes hilaire.fernandes@edu.ge.ch:

For point 2.,  you may have to write the script in Smalltalk mode then use the code

ActiveHand x to get abscissa of the mouse pointer

Hilaire

2009/11/11 Bill Kerr billkerr@gmail.com:

...

1. Is it possible to get an arrow to point towards the mouse pointer in

etoys? I can get it to point towards a box which is being moved with the mouse with this script: arrow's heading <-- arrow's bearing to box In the world menu in the playfield pane there are mouse x and mouse y detectors but arrow's bearing will not accept those detectors as input to replace just the box part 2) I also wanted to detect a mouse click but can't see any way to do that. The input pane in the world menu detects last keystroke but not a mouse click. _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list squeakland@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

-- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire