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[Daniel Ajoy]

On 1 Dec 2004 at 11:22, LUTZ, JILL S wrote:

> Problem #!  Most games have a feature where when something 
> goes over it,  it disappears. We have been trying to make a 
> button that will show everyone, but obviously we are doing 
> it incorrectly. We have even tried listing the individual 
> turtles. The pacman game attached has dots that need to 
> reappear in reset. Could you please help us? I'm sure it is 
> something simple, I just can't figure out why what we have 
> tried isn't working.

Hi,

Couldn't you use 

everyone [st]

as the instruction of the "show" button?


> Problem #2 Some games have things flying around and have an 
> announce on "on touching". The problem is that the wrong 
> turtles are touching the oject and causing announce instead 
> of the "game turtle". How could we keep this from 
> happening? The file called "games" is an example of the 
> problem. She has tried to line them up so they won't touch, 
> but some still do. Thank you  for your help. My students 
> and I have gained so much from your help. Jill

touchedturtle (tturtle)

Reports the name of the turtle that is touched by the one 
running this command. Touchedturtle can only be used inside 
the OnTouching field of a turtle's backpack.

See touching? and Rules Tab - OnTouching in the section Fundamentals. 

This is what I found in the Help (Vocabulary):

In the OnTouching field of t1's backpack:

if touchedturtle = "t2
[lt 90]

Click on t1. 


Daniel
OpenWorld Learning
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