Re: List Processing Vocabulary

[Richard Park <richpark@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you Alain and Daniel,

I think what I'm looking for are ways to handle text. I'll check your  
suggestions.  By the way, I tried the openworld resource mentioned  
below and the website is not working this afternoon.

Thank you

On Mar 10, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Alain LCSI wrote:

> Hi,
> With modern implementations of Logo, a concept such as readlist was  
> very hard to maintain - mostly because of the concept of "focus".  
> In the old days, there was only one focus: the command center. The  
> rest of the screen was an "output" area. In MicroWorlds, the focus  
> can be in any of 10 places such as tabs, cc, text boxes, other fields.
>
> As an illustration of this, the primitive readchar (sort of  
> readlist for one character) only works if you first click in the  
> "page" area.
>
> Take a look at the online Help system in MicroWorlds, section  
> Vocabulary, subsection Words and Lists. Check what onreadline can  
> do for you. It's a sort of executable readlist bound to a text box.
>
> Alain Tougas
> alain@xxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
> Le 07-03-10 à 10:12, Daniel Ajoy a écrit :
>
> > On 9 Mar 2007 at 21:52, Richard Park wrote:
> >
> > > I'm developing  some stand alone activities for classes an have been
> > > reviewing some of the great material in the old Hal Abelson Apple
> > > Logo book.  I really like the material he has included for the
> > > commands.  Some of the vocabulary does not match with MicroWorlds  
> > > EX.
> > > Particular READLIST and TEST are not primitives.  Could anyone
> > > suggest resources for MWEX commands that deal with lists.  I've used
> > > the QUESTION and ANSWER primitives, but thought there might be some
> > > resources someone can share.  Thank you.
> >
> > Sections 13, 14, 15, 21, 22
> >
> > http://mia.openwordlearning.org/resources/mw_refcard3.pdf
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> > OpenWorld Learning