RE: MIA, Ask an Expert: start an objects program

["Boyd, Ronald" <Ronald.Boyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do students who are asking a question attach their project initially? It
seems they can only do so after they get a response, is that true? If so that
seems to make it hard to answer their question effectively...
Well my students loaded up your emails this week with questions... Thanks for
your help. They have a hard time being patient for answers. They seem to think
you have no other lives...I tried to explain differently that you are not all
sitting waiting to be asked...Kids :) 
I have one other we were working on.
Attached is a pacman type game example. We have been trying a different option
on the powerpill idea. We wanted the pacman to eat the powerpill and have that
start some music. During the music like our earlier question on the timer
(which worked great thankyou) we want the pacman to be able to be safe from
the ghost. The idea was to put code in the Zapped instruction that while the
music ants was on the action zapped would be stopped. However we keep getting
this error 

get does not like ants as input in zapped

The music also seems to stop as soon as you eat another food.

Another idea was to be able to eat the ghost during the music giving you safe
travel the rest of the game.
 
 
Ronald Boyd
GT Coordinator/Technology Integration Specialist
Rosemount Elementary
651-423-7690
ronald.boyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Subject: Re: MIA, Ask an Expert: start an objects program



On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:30 -0500, <askanexpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> how can you program so when a turle touches something it starts an objects
program


when [touching "t1 "turtleSomething] [tto "objectTurtle clickon]


(turtleSomething and objectTurtle are both turtles with those names)

t1 is the turtle that touches the "turtleSomething" turtle.

When that happens, the "OnClick Once rule" instructions of the turtle called
"objectTurtle" are run.



Daniel
OpenWorld Learning

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