[Newbies] Re: Randomness + Pause/Delay?

[Steve Thomas]

Sound interesting is the Etoys project posted anywhere?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, michael rice <nowgate at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I ported my morphic app to Etoys and it does indeed work differently
> (randomly) now each time I bring it up.. The app simulates a simple game
> with two players taking turns putting their colored blocks (blue and red)
> upon one of two towers, randomly selected. The game ends when both towers
> are topped with the same color.
>
> In a playfield, the playGame pseudocode script:
>
> TEST towers topped with same color blocks
>   YES initialize game to starting conditions
>   NO blueAction
>         redAction
>
>
> But the two scripts, blueAction and redAction, in sequence, appear to
> happen simultaneously. Is there a delay mechanism, like a marktime tile,
> that could separate two scripts by a specified number of ticks? If not, are
> there any plans for one?
>
> Michael
>
>
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