Re: Etoys - arrays/lists?
David Corking <lists-/nzOcgXKDAFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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> R.D. Latimer wrote: >> >> Is there a way to create an array or list of numbers - many numbers, like 100 or 1000 or more? >> >> From the Illinois website it looks as though a Holder is the only way to do this, copy in a Text object for each array/list element. >> This method doesn't seem to be the way to store large numbers of values into an array or list. Yoshiki wrote: > "Doesn't seem to be"... But can you elaborate a little bit more? > It may be actually feasible with Text object. But, yes, such kind of > large collection is not a common Etoys feature. I once created a grid of the first 100 natural numbers: it wasn't pretty to create and took a few minutes of copy and paste. I ended up with a holder of holders (each containing a row of 10 Text objects.) So it can be done but I think Yoshiki's suggestions of particles or textual script would be better.