Unable to create pong game setup script in Etoys 3.0

Hi,

I'm trying to follow the tutorial here:
        http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/11/making-pong-in-etoys.html

Creating the move script went fine, but I have problems creating the
setup script.

What I did to create the move script, was click on the eye, and got up a
window, where I set the name of the ball object to ball.  Then I dragged
an empty script on the Etoys window and dropped it.

Then I selected the category "motion" in the lower half of the ball
window, and dragged and dropped "ball forward by" and "ball bounce" on
the new script, which I've named move.

I then dragged the empty script and dropped it on the background to
create a new script.  But here I've been unsuccessful in dragging
"ball's heading" from the "motion" category.

That's is: I've been successful in dragging it, but not dropping it and
having it connect to the script.  I've tried hovering over the script,
I've tried touching it all edges of the script.  I've looked at menu
entries.

But no luck yet.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanx!


- Steinar



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On 02.03.2009, at 23:09, Steinar Bang wrote:


Make sure you grab the "assignment" arrow, not the name of the tile.

The viewer lets you get two kinds of tiles for properties such as  
heading: one to access the heading, and one to set it. If you hover  
the mouse pointer to the left and right across the tile, different  
parts are highlighted. This indicates which tile you will get.

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>>>>> Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>:

> Make sure you grab the "assignment" arrow, not the name of the tile.

> The viewer lets you get two kinds of tiles for properties such as
> heading: one to access the heading, and one to set it. If you hover
> the mouse pointer to the left and right across the tile, different
> parts are highlighted. This indicates which tile you will get.

I positioned the mouse over the arrow and clicked, and got the tile
surrounded by a red rectangle.  I dragged it and dropped it on the setup
script, where it slid into place at the bottom of the script tile.

Worked like a charm!  Thanx! :-)

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On 02.03.2009, at 23:29, Steinar Bang wrote:


Glad it worked. You might want to stop by

        http://squeakland.org/

for more Etoys tutorials, ideas, and a whole community of Etoys users.

- Bert -


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