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wlarien

Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:59 pm


How to stop the movement of mousewhere temporarily?

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What is it you are trying to achieve?
I need to stop the mousewhere from moving for 3 seconds while at the same time keeping up the decrement in an accumulator. For more context, I am trying to do this requirement in my assignment: Small solid squares, coloured differently from the slime ball, occasionally appear on the screen. Accidentally hitting one freezes the slime ball in place for 3 seconds, but it continues to shrink.


What is the problem you are having?
I can't get the two processes to run simultaneously. I am looking for some code that will only freeze the slime ball (which is controlled by mousewhere)


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I tried delay and looked at time related commands in the help menu, but none seem to be of use.


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1


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Tony

Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:04 pm


Re: How to stop the movement of mousewhere temporarily?

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processes
well there's your problem (processes are really really hard to do correctly; if anyone suggests otherwise, they just don't understand the complexities well enough).


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wlarien

Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:14 pm


Re: How to stop the movement of mousewhere temporarily?

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well what I want to do is to have the mousewhere not move for 3 seconds, then resume moving. Could you help me out with that?


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Tony

Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:40 pm


RE:How to stop the movement of mousewhere temporarily?

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mousewhere is just a function that returns the x/y(+button) values. There is no "move", unless you act on those values. It's this "act on" step that you want to pause; more likely in a sense of "do nothing".
[code]
loop
   Mouse.Where(x,y,b)
   if 
      do nothing
   else
     do something
   end if
end loop
[/code]

Of course since you have multiple independent objects, you would likely want multiple independent timers. It's fine if they are sequential, as long as they are non-blocking (don't do anything slow, such as delay).


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mirhagk

Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:21 pm


RE:How to stop the movement of mousewhere temporarily?

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general rule of thumb, if your using processes in Turing, you don't understand them. Whenever your using processes it's usually something to do with making something wait a little while other things continue to happen. This is better handled with a timer (just store the time in a int and then check the current time to the time stored) and sequential programming.