[MWForum]Syntax not working

[Lauren Pacini]

Aaaaaaah.....I forgot about Procedures Page vs.
Command Center! Back to the drawing board!

Thanks, everyone!

Lauren

--- Wendy Petti <wpetti@mathcats.com> wrote:
> Oops!  Susan is certainly right; you cannot use
> SHAPE as a procedure name.
> Also, to clarify:  you do indeed use TO when you are
> naming a procedure.
> But you don't use TO when you are calling the
> procedure (when you are
> activating it).  So here is what you might use:
> 
> [on the procedures page]
> 
> to polygon :value
> repeat :value [fd 100 rt 360 / :value]
> end
> 
> [and then, in the command center]
> 
> polygon 6
> 
> [OR on the project page, for a button name]
> 
> polygon 6
> 
> By the way, if you would like the user to be able to
> control the number of
> sides, you could use a slider named (for instance)
> #SIDES and then revise
> your procedure like this:
> 
> TO POLYGON
> REPEAT #SIDES [FD 100 RT 360 / #SIDES]
> END
> 
> Note that in this case, when you are using a slider
> for the input to a
> variable, you do not need to create a variable in
> the procedure name and you
> do not use a colon before the name of the slider. 
> In the command center or
> in a button name you would simply have the word
> POLYGON, and the procedure
> would use the selected value on the #SIDES slider.
> 
> Wendy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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