Re: Startup and variables

["Daniel Ajoy" <dajoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 May 2005 at 11:23, Trimbach, Traci wrote:

> Two questions:
> 
>  
> 
> 1.	Is there any way for a program to draw a text box 

newtext name [x y] [xsize ysize] 

Creates a new text box using the name and size specified at 
the position [x y] indicated. The position is the top, left 
corner of the box. The maximum [xsize ysize] is the size of 
the page in the project. 


> or hatch a
> turtle in a startup procedure?  

newturtle name 

Creates a new turtle with the name indicated. The new 
turtle appears at the position [0 0] and is hidden. 

> 2.	Is there any way to store a variable to use later?  For
> instance, if I wanted the students to write a program that asks the user
> to order how many hamburgers, fries and drinks they wanted and the
> program would take their answers and calculate how much they owe based
> on the amount of items ordered and include tax.  The computer would then
> output the amount owed to the user.

to ini
make "burgers.amount 10
make "fries.amount 6
make "drinks.amount 20

make "burgers.cost 1.5
make "fries.cost 0.5
make "drinks.cost 0.8

make "tax 0.12

show (:burgers.amount * :burgers.cost
    + :fries.amount * :fries.cost
    + :drinks.amount * :drinks.cost) * (1 + :tax)
end

Daniel





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