Re: problem with tto command

["Daniel Ajoy" <dajoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 Jan 2006 at 21:34, zehava wizman wrote:

>   Hello Forum!
>   I used tto with clickon and it's doesn't work, I did it with ask and its 
work.
>   I open the help and the explanations are the same to ask and tto.
>   Here attached an example, I remember that I realy used tto with clickon 
>   and its worked, why now I
> get an error?, the procedure "action1"  with ask- works ,and the procedure 
> named "action" doesn't
> work. 
>                                               thanks, Zehava Wizman
> 

Hi Zehava

This is what the Help says:

> clickon -Technical information-  
> 
> Clickon used in a button's dialog box will change the 
> current turtle. 
> 
> If you used a list as input to talkto before running 
> clickon, clickon will display an error message.  


I don't understand how talkto works. I always use ask
instead. That is, I try to avoid writing:

tto "t1 do.something

and

t1, do.something


Besides tto has other "problems". From the Help:

> talkto -Technical information-  
> 
> Be aware that if you give talkto a list as input, the who 
> reporter will report a list. This could cause problems with 
> primitives such as towards and distance, which could take 
> who as an input. See who. 


Daniel





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