Re: Simple Coin toss program

Yoshiki Ohshima <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.squeakland
Message-ID <m239ezo3qv.wl%[email protected]>
At Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:02:09 -0400,
R.D. Latimer wrote:
> 
> Hi- trying to simulate a coin toss.  I'm putting two objects in a holder - a circle and a star.
> I created two variables in the Holder, circleCounter and starCounter (one for heads, one for tails)
> 
> I assign the cursor of the Holder a random 1 or 2.
> 
> I don't know how to check the position of the cursor.  The simplest way would just be:
> Test if cursor value == 1...
>
> but I don't see that as a menu option.

  In the Holder's Viewer, there is a category called "collections" and
there is a tile called "Holder's cursor".  If you drop it to the
Test part of test, you get the comparison there and you can change '>'
to '='.

-- Yoshiki
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