Re: Multiple objects running the same script

Thanks - I got #2 below to work.  I put all the turtle objects onto a
playfield and use "tell all contents".
For #1, I guess I have to specifically call each turtle object reset, so if
there are 10 turtles, I'll need 10 blocks, one for each turtle reset?
It'd be nice to somehow loop through a list of turtle objects, saying to
each one 'reset'.
I tried this with the "Holder" - put turtle tiles for each turtle in the
holder, then use "Holder send to all" or "Holder tell all contents" to
reset.  THat didn't seem to have any affect. 1

In NetLogo, you write a procedure named 'reset', then use 'tell all' for
something like
  tell all turtles [ reset ]   (I forget the exact syntax)

#3 locked up for my version.  Each turtle has a reset script. Each turtle is
a sibling of the first turtle. When I use tell all siblings 'reset', the
program locked up.  I may be doing something wrong on that.
Do I use turtle 1 to create all the siblings, turtle1 for sibling1, sibling
1 for sibling2, sibling2 for sibling3, etc.

Also, to set random pen color, I used an indirect way I found someone
suggested online. I don't think I can assign pencolor a random color.  I
made an object, assigned it random rgb amounts (1-100?), then assigned the
pen color to be the color of that object.

Randy

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1-gQhbkF4bah9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>wrote:

> So from what I can tell about what you are trying to do the best way may be
> to create "sibling copies" or your turtles.  This is done by either holding
> down the shift key when you click on the copy icon in the halo or from the
> menu in the halo there is an option to create siblings
>
> That said there are a number of ways to reset things I can think of and
> hopefully this is not too much info:
>
>    1. You can create a script that executes the resets for all objects you
>    want to reset
>    2. Use the scripting tile "tell all contents" (found in the scripting
>    category for playfields) to execute all scripts named "reset" (or whatever
>    name you choose). Note, this will only go "one level deep" in a playfield.
>    This will work if all objects you want to reset are in the playfield (but
>    will not work for any objects embedded in a playfield in that playfield)
>    3. Use the scripting tile "tell all siblings" Siblings are really neat.
>    When you change a script in one sibling all siblings get the same script
>    changes. So in effect they share a common set of scripts and variables, but
>    can have different values for each siblings copy of a variable and different
>    script states as well.
>    4. If you are using a Book, you can make a page (and the entire book
>    "revertible. In the book's menu is an option "save this page for later
>    revert" which allows you to set the page (or book) as "revertible"  Which
>    will save the current state of the page.  Then from the Book's menu you can
>    choose "revert this page" or "revert this book".  You can also use the menu
>    item in a script, by getting the halo for that menu item (ie: "revert this
>    page") and drag the "fire" tile into a script.
>
> Note: you can either create a button to reset the page (from a script
> editors menu, there is an option: "button to fire this script" or you can
> set a scripts status to "opening" which can be used to reset a page or a
> book when that page or book is opened.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:41 PM, R.D. Latimer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Etoys-
>>   I have a 'turtle' with a reset button (clears screen, sets position to
>> random xy) and a drawpattern script with random colors.
>>
>> Can I create many copies of this turtle and run all the resets at once -
>> re-positions all 'turtles' and clears the screen, and then run drawpattern
>> all at once for all turtles?  Note that drawpattern needs to run only once,
>> not constantly as with a timer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Randy Latimer
>>
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