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THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I get out of school at, like, 4:00 and get home at 4:30. Sad, really. K, I just read TWO WHOLE PAGES (MINE ARE SET TO THE LONGEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF POSTS)!

I finally figured out and fixed a saving glitch with the colors. They didn't get saved, in case anyone noticed 

SeptimusHeap wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

MathWizz wrote:

Uh, no he's not...

Well he was.

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Hmm... The get variable block doesn't seem to work. It can't get the value.

Is there an actual variable to get?

Yeah. I don't get it. I bet it can't read a string.

What? Which one?

Last edited by nXIII (2010-04-12 16:54:40)

SeptimusHeap wrote:

nXIII wrote:

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I get out of school at, like, 4:00 and get home at 4:30. Sad, really. K, I just read TWO WHOLE PAGES (MINE ARE SET TO THE LONGEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF POSTS)!

I finally figured out and fixed a saving glitch with the colors. They didn't get saved, in case anyone noticed 

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Yeah. I don't get it. I bet it can't read a string.

What? Which one?

The 'get variable ___ from mesh'.

Oh.... but that's the exact same thing as the sensor block, except with strings. If you want strings, then just ask and I'll add the 'other...' string support to the sensor block

You put in the name, and out comes the -incorrect- value.

Oh, and yes, I just did it for a little something I needed, so you wouldn't need to make all of the variables on a connected mesh to make a sensor value for them.

Last edited by SeptimusHeap (2010-04-12 17:09:32)

ok then

A note about debugging:
I know that the variable movement only works when the variable is shown, but what's the point of moving something that (literally) doesn't exist? To hide a variable, its watcher is deleted. To show it, the watcher is created. You can't (and shouldn't worry about) moving a nonexistent watcher. Just show it and then move it.

MathWizz wrote:

nXIII wrote:

A note about debugging:
I know that the variable movement only works when the variable is shown, but what's the point of moving something that (literally) doesn't exist? To hide a variable, its watcher is deleted. To show it, the watcher is created. You can't (and shouldn't worry about) moving a nonexistent watcher. Just show it and then move it.

Why not make the variable show in the instance, move it, then hide it again?

It might flash...

BTW I'm replacing the annoying (and sometimes annoyingly long) watchers/var reporters with two buttons, show a variable and hide a variable (kind of like 'make a variable' and 'delete a variable'). This will encourage people to also use the newer and better variable reporter block.

sparks wrote:

I don't understand, does that mean PAnther has Both types of variable at once?

and yes, I did email you, and no, you didn't reply.

Sorry. Now I have. I was experimenting with cloning and pres mode

SeptimusHeap wrote:

How do you add new top menus to Panther? Like Mesh, Dev, etc...

Edit the createMenuPanel method

How did you add the block categories?

Sperry wrote:

Morning everyone! How are we getting on?

Oh my gosh!!! nXIII posted. Shame having school when everyone else is off. Oh well. Have fun at school today nXIII!

I still don't know how to get my block to work though. I thought about using some sring ops so I'm currently seeing what I can do with it. I'll get back to you on that one.

I think we're going to run out of block ideas and then we won't be able to release another version of Panther!!! Oh No! 

See you later guys

good morning. I think the chances of running out of idea are slim. people will enjoy the new features in Panther so much when it is released that they'll just bombard us with requests.

one of the dangers with Panther is going to be to many blocks. it looks untidy and wastes time scrolling down all the time. I think getting similar blocks stuffed into one, like the pi,e,newline one is a good idea. and example might be the familiar < < > < > > blocks with a central drop-down to chooses between =, <, >, <= and >= and maybe even !=., compacting several blocks into one.

oh, I think that the general feeling is that you've been very productive, friendly and helpful with Panther and you have been on here as much as any of us, so... Welcome aboard 

Last edited by sparks (2010-04-13 05:08:35)

sparks wrote:

Sperry wrote:

Morning everyone! How are we getting on?

Oh my gosh!!! nXIII posted. Shame having school when everyone else is off. Oh well. Have fun at school today nXIII!

I still don't know how to get my block to work though. I thought about using some sring ops so I'm currently seeing what I can do with it. I'll get back to you on that one.

I think we're going to run out of block ideas and then we won't be able to release another version of Panther!!! Oh No! 

See you later guys

good morning. I think the chances of running out of idea are slim. people will enjoy the new features in Panther so much when it is released that they'll just bombard us with requests.

one of the dangers with Panther is going to be to many blocks. it looks untidy and wastes time scrolling down all the time. I think getting similar blocks stuffed into one, like the pi,e,newline one is a good idea. and example might be the familiar < < > < > > blocks with a central drop-down to chooses between =, <, >, <= and >= and maybe even !=., compacting several blocks into one.

oh, I think that the general feeling is that you've been very productive, friendly and helpful with Panther and you have been on here as much as any of us, so... Welcome aboard 

1. People will come up with ideas, but we will run out of possibilitys eventually (whenever that is)

2. Good ideas!

3. Really, Thank-you soo much!!!!

devs, there is a new update to the panther files. be warned, when I downloaded them, there was no stage, and two browser windows were open. just close the windows and turn full screen on from the dev menu and the stage should appear. I also had a problem with the color tab when I uploaded a panther project coded before the new update, so It's still glitchy.

the new file blocks can read text off webpages, and so I am going to develop a news project the reads info off a poage on the Panther site, and displays it in the project.

here's some ideas for "bb code" I plan to use:

•[ starts a new section
•three digit string states the type:
[img   A string that Panther can render as a thumbnail
[txt   A normal piece of text.
[spc   A piece of text that appears in a speech bubble, e.g. a virtual newsreader

[img followed by full or 2clr (indicates wether the image is full colour, or two, like black and white.

they are both followed by the image width, eg 050
and the starting grid coordinate for the image on the stage eg +150-020
[imgfull020+150-020 is then followed by a hex value for each pixil. (#FFFFFF)
[img2col020+150-020 is followed by #FFFFFF#FFFFFF to determine the values of color 1 and colour 2. then is followed by, the colour, a number to indicate how long the colour goes on and then the next colour.

examples:
[imgfull120-150+020#1753E4#555555#032854 etc....
[img2col120-150+020#4662B5#356E3410012200etc...

] ends a section.

[txt is followed by the length of the text string so it can load the string faster, followed by = to show the text has started and then normal text... possibility for bold and itallic formatting.

example: [txt35=hello everyone, Welcome to Panther!]

[spc is the same as text, just presented in a speech bubble.

I was awake most of last night, with this in my head so it's a relieve to set it out. I have tried to compact the data as much as possible, if people have a suggestion for a more compact method, I would love to hear it 

Last edited by sparks (2010-04-13 05:43:03)

sparks wrote:

devs, there is a new update to the panther files. be warned, when I downloaded them, there was no stage, and two browser windows were open. just close the windows and turn full screen on from the dev menu and the stage should appear. I also had a problem with the color tab when I uploaded a panther project coded before the new update, so It's still glitchy.

the new file blocks can read text off webpages, and so I am going to develop a news project the reads info off a poage on the Panther site, and displays it in the project.

here's some ideas for "bb code" I plan to use:

•[ starts a new section
•three digit string states the type:
[img   A string that Panther can render as a thumbnail
[txt   A normal piece of text.
[spc   A piece of text that appears in a speech bubble, e.g. a virtual newsreader

[img followed by full or 2clr (indicates wether the image is full colour, or two, like black and white.

they are both followed by the image width, eg 050
and the starting grid coordinate for the image on the stage eg +150-020
[imgfull020+150-020 is then followed by a hex value for each pixil. (#FFFFFF)
[img2col020+150-020 is followed by #FFFFFF#FFFFFF to determine the values of color 1 and colour 2. then is followed by, the colour, a number to indicate how long the colour goes on and then the next colour.

examples:
[imgfull120-150+020#1753E4#555555#032854 etc....
[img2col120-150+020#4662B5#356E3410012200etc...

] ends a section.

[txt is followed by the length of the text string so it can load the string faster, followed by = to show the text has started and then normal text... possibility for bold and itallic formatting.

example: [txt35=hello everyone, Welcome to Panther!]

[spc is the same as text, just presented in a speech bubble.

I was awake most of last night, with this in my head so it's a relieve to set it out. I have tried to compact the data as much as possible, if people have a suggestion for a more compact method, I would love to hear it 

Uh... thats over complicating things...