Re: Create siblings in a loop?

Can siblings be created in a loop in a script?
So I can create 100 siblings at once?

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:46 AM, R.D. Latimer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also -
>  Recursion works - (I think)
> I made a drawsquare with 1 input for a counter,
> If number < 4
>   forward 100
>   rt 100
>   drawsquare (number + 1)    recursive call.
>
> That's nice that recursion looks like it's supported.
>
> When I make an input, using 'number' for example, can I change the name to
> 'counter'?  I think I have to use the default name provided by etoys -
> 'number'
>
> Randy
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:42 AM, R.D. Latimer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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