On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:07 AM, David Faught <dave.faught at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, David Faught <dave.faught at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On 7/29/2010 5:08 AM, David Faught wrote:
>>>> On 7/29/2010, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Replicate the script into the island and run it there. This is
>>>>> obviously more in line with the ideas of Croquet but the thought of all
>>>>> the things that could go wrong led me to never go down this path.
>>
>>>> Option number 2 is what I used in the MockTurtle demo.  This project
>>>> only used a code editor in the local proxy instead of tile scripting,
>>>> and when the edit was accepted the script text was first locally
>>>> syntax checked and then sent to the associated replicated object.
>>>> This was actually lots of fun, but needed to have some "future"s
>>>> handcoded in the edited source as I recall.  Some keystrokes in the
>>>> harness directed to the target replicated object caused editing or
>>>> script execution to start.  In my isolated testing, this worked just
>>>> fine.
>>
>>>How did you deal with persistence and replication? One of the main
>>>issues with the approach is having to include compiled methods in the
>>>island snapshot. Or did you have an explicit "code sync" step before
>>>replicating the island contents?
>>
>> I guess that I cheated by ignoring persistence and took a very simple
>> minded approach.  By choice there were no compiled methods.  And yes,
>> that limited its usefulness, but it was still lots of fun.  The
>> locally edited code was sent to the target replicated object as a text
>> string and the replicated object saved it in a single instance
>> variable, so each replicated object could have exactly one script.
>> When the target object was triggered to run the code, it essentially
>> did a "doIt" on the string.  There wasn't anything more to it than
>> that.
>
> I never made any claims about this being a clever and elegant
> implementation, but it worked and was lots of fun and interesting to
> play with.  I found out some things I never knew before, such as how
> to do recursion in a single "doIt" string.  It was a simple enough
> case to experiment with some of the basic ideas.  And I haven't seen
> or heard of anyone who has completed a similar or better version of
> this, outside of some discussion of the concepts.  Here is my virtual
> gauntlet being thrown to the floor.  I will gladly yield to anyone
> with a serious challenge.

Hhmm, now that I think about it, there was a project at U. of
Minnesota dealing with robots or NPCs, but I don't recall that project
actually did any interactive scripting.

>> Cheers,
>> Dave