Thanks Harvey

[mwforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lara Frawley)]

Thanks Harvey! Your thinking is way ahead of mine but I will try to work
through what you've written.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harvey Bornfield 
  To: mwforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:53 AM
  Subject: Re: [MWForum]Stopall


  Lara:
  You would want to perform a stopall before you exit the current page, and
place a few lines of "cleanup code" as well in that page-switching procedure.
Such 'clean-up' code could be used to track information like what activity was
going on in the environment you're exiting, (what programs are running before
you blugeoned everything with a stopall), what sounds are playing, and
optionally, saving the background graphics.

  What this potentially accomplishes is that upon a button initiated return to
that page at a later time, you can attach another procedure to restore the
same environment  - i.e. all activity on every turtle  "silenced" at last exit
from that page. You can do this utilizing ask "t1 [clickon]. If the command to
use background music is incorporated as part of a turtle procedure, that can
also be automated. 

  This is how one begins to experiment with developing software architecture
which can "save games". You would write off a collection of "state of the
game" or "state of the page" variables into a text file, together with the
players name, and reload information specific to one of many players,
conjuring up the same scenery, activities and orchestrations. 

  Hope this challenges your spark plugs!
  Perhaps this idea is worth sharing some MW Code.

  best regards,
  Harvey

  At 09:05 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote:

    The button to page 6 should have a procedure, not just page6. Then you can
stopall as soon as you get to page6

    e.g.

    to page-6
    page6
    stopall
    end

    Susan
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Thanks Harvey! Your thinking is way ahead of mine but I will try to work through what you've written.

----- Original Message -----

From: Harvey Bornfield

To: mwforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:53 AM

Subject: Re: [MWForum]Stopall

Lara:
You would want to perform a stopall before you exit the current page, and place a few lines of "cleanup code" as well in that page-switching procedure. Such 'clean-up' code could be used to track information like what activity was going on in the environment you're exiting, (what programs are running before you blugeoned everything with a stopall), what sounds are playing, and optionally, saving the background graphics.

What this potentially accomplishes is that upon a button initiated return to that page at a later time, you can attach another procedure to restore the same environment  - i.e. all activity on every turtle  "silenced" at last exit from that page. You can do this utilizing ask "t1 [clickon]. If the command to use background music is incorporated as part of a turtle procedure, that can also be automated.

This is how one begins to experiment with developing software architecture which can "save games". You would write off a collection of "state of the game" or "state of the page" variables into a text file, together with the players name, and reload information specific to one of many players, conjuring up the same scenery, activities and orchestrations.

Hope this challenges your spark plugs!
Perhaps this idea is worth sharing some MW Code.

best regards,
Harvey

At 09:05 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote:

The button to page 6 should have a procedure, not just page6. Then you can stopall as soon as you get to page6

e.g.

to page-6
page6
stopall
end

Susan
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Susan van Gelder
susanvg@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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