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Comment on E-Toys Tutorial 12 – Getting Jiggy with the Frog by Freemor

Freemor — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:51:46 +0000

What you could do is gradually change the heading with something like: (meta code not squeak)
keep
b := self bearingTo: ConnectorArrow.
(b heading;
heading++
if b < heading;
heading–

that way it would take several iterations for heading to = B

Thanks for the kind word.
Love now you have taken the basic use of connectors I demonstrated and expanded on it so much
very cool.

Comment on E-Toys Tutorial 12 – Getting Jiggy with the Frog by Mike Stramba

Mike Stramba — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:06:44 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial !

I am a Squeak/ etoys novice, and hadn’t used the etoys “connector” before.

It gave me an idea for an ATC (Air traffic control simulator), i.e. to use “vector” lines (connectors), for a way to graphically issue heading change commands to the planes.

Along with the etoys ‘bearingTo’ method, and this little script snippet, I’ve also solved the annoying “heading” numbers that etoys uses for headings > 180 :

| b |
self forward: 0.2.
b := self bearingTo: ConnectorArrow.
(b < 0) ifTrue: [b := 360 + b].
Transcript cr; show: b.
self setHeading: b

Unfortuneatly, atm, my little vector- bearing control is not working ideally, as the "plane" changes it's heading instantaneously, when the bearing "target" is moved.

I want the plane to turn at a realistic turn rate given the current speed, so some more scripting is probably in order.

Mike

Comment on About Freemor by Mark Szentes-Wanner

Mark Szentes-Wanner — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:07:24 +0000

Hi,

I found you by your Google Cloud Print – Insane blog post. I am happy to have you here on this planet.

Mark

Comment on Flash ‘Cookies’, a hidden bane by Frances Druins

Frances Druins — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:37:55 +0000

^^
thank you Privacy Guy!

Comment on Talkr.im Howto by Freemor

Freemor — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:07:56 +0000

Not that I’m aware of. You could always ask the folks over at talkr.im to be sure. There are some services that I did not cover in depth such as Jingle and PubSub. Your request for a post on SIP/Simple is a good one and I’ll add it to my list of things to cover as your question shows that there may be more interest in this subject then I previously thought. It is also a timely subject now with so many people getting twitchy about Microsoft buying Skype.

Thanks for the Feedback

Comment on Talkr.im Howto by mee

mee — Sat, 28 May 2011 06:47:56 +0000

Are there any transports not listed by discovery?

How about a lovely post on sip/simple? With xmpp?

Comment on Flash ‘Cookies’, a hidden bane by Privacy Guy

Privacy Guy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:34:59 +0000

I know, I know… this entry is so old, but this fix is easy in Linux. Just redirect the directories to /dev/null and you don’t have to worry about clearing them… they never, ever get saved to disk

cd $HOME

rm -rf .adobe .macromedia

ln -s /dev/null .adobe

ln -s /dev/null .macromedia

Comment on About Freemor by tawelgnapmun

tawelgnapmun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:30:57 +0000

Yeah.. cyberpunk.. !privacy !OnlyGodKnow

Comment on Google Free… by k

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:36:11 +0000

add your news to gmane.org! they retain it for lots longer..

Comment on Using BloGTK with wordpress.com by John

John — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:48:17 +0000

Thanks. Quite annoying there is hardly any documentation for this otherwise. This helped a lot!