Duplication Through Siblings
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In reply to this post by Thompson, Ryan
Hi, Ryan, and all,
[Ryan privately emailed me a copy of his project, on which this
reply is based.]
The reason why you're getting an extra copy stuck to your cursor
is because of this script, which in your project is used for making
the copies:
"Cell8's copy" *already* makes a copy. Telling
*that* copy to "do menu item 'duplicate'" means: do
the same thing as if I were actually to have chosen the
"duplicate" menu item from the halo menu of the first
copy.
... which makes a copy (of the initial copy) and puts it on your
cursor. Precisely the phenomenon you're observing ;-)
So, in short, that single phrase in the "duplicate"
script makes *two* copies, leaving one on your cursor.
The best idiom to use to make copies using scripts is to invoke
"copy" to get the copy, and to use "include at end"
or another of the "include" options to say *where* the copy
should be put.
Thus, for example, here's a nice script which tells a cell to
make a copy of itself and add to it to a container named Holder:
I'm attaching a reworked version of Ryan's "cell"
project that makes use of this idiom. Note also that this
version puts the cells into a "holder" rather than into a
simple "playfield," in order to make the results of each
doubling of the cell population be more visually apparent.
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 10:22 AM -0500 2/25/06, Thompson, Ryan wrote:
Good morning, I have set up squeak to create siblings or duplicates through a script which is activated via a button. However, not only does it create copies of the objects but it also puts a copy on my cursor. How can I eliminate this pesky copy? Regards, Ryan Thompson |
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