The other day I found about MotionSketch, 
http://www.snibbe.com/scott/mphone/index.html, and decided that this 
ought to be a good, quick hack in Squeak (currently using 3.2 gamma, 
latest updates, if it matters).    The basic notion of MotionSketch 
is a short interactive loop a few seconds long, that repeats the 
motion made b y the user with some shape, over and over, as the user 
adds more motions/shapes.  Well, I thought, since I'd like to extend 
this to repeat changes in other properties than position (color and 
shape, for instance) this is a perfect application for scripting. 
After a bunch of poking around with browsers and playing with 
scriptors, I still think so, but I'm having trouble figuring out 
exactly how to go about it.

Scripting seems to have been designed for supporting interactive 
creation and execution of scripts.  What I want to do is create 
scripts programmatically, given Morph property names and ordered 
collections of values to assign to them on successive ticks, 
associate the scripts on the fly with particular Morphs (actually 
their players, I guess), and then have the MotionSketch loop execute 
them.  Is there some simple way to, for instance, create script 
strings, compile them, and associate them with a given Player?  I 
don't want to use SyntaxMorphs, that seems overkill for what I'm 
doing; in fact, I don't want to create any sort of Tile or Tile 
support object, since I don't want the scripts to display under 
normal conditions.

Has anyone played with this sort of idea?
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Bruce Cohen
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