Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-17 Thread Roy Pardi
At 11:36 PM +0100 12/17/2000, Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: >Once Phil Spector was producing a record with John Lennon and and >asked him how he wanted his voice to sound. "Like a watermelon" John >Lennon replied. man...you must be OLD! . . . ;-) -- Roy Pardi [To remove yourself from this

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-17 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
>>it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. > >Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does >"Kurt" sound in Danish? > >-Kerry Thompson Once Phil Spector was producing a record with John Lennon and and asked him how he wanted his voice to sou

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-17 Thread Kerry Thompson
>it gives a different meaning when you know how "Kurt" sounds in danish. Ok, I'll bite. With apologies to the esteemed Mr. Griffin, how does "Kurt" sound in Danish? -Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi

RE: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Johannes Hansen
Hehe Jakob... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jakob Hede Madsen Sent: 17. december 2000 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: basic lingo question >>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Jakob Hede Madsen
>>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >>behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine > >Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. Actually, when I make that argument I use to say that you could just as well substitute "me" with "Ku

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Kerry Thompson
>"me" is also a convention - you could write a >behavior that substitutes "you" for "me" and it would work just fine Good point, Kurt, and one that is documented, but not widely recognized. If I may split hairs, though, "me" is a keyword in Lingo, though it has no inherent value. It's a conven

Re: Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-16 Thread Kurt Griffin
>> The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in >> "me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? >> Thanks in advance! The first part of your question has been answered, so I'll tackle the second part. "p" as in "pModel" is a naming convention that many of u

Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Clars
That's a point I had missed. Still, I was trying to keep it simple, 'cause I've been there... -Clars Irv Kalb wrote: > Good explanation, but I'll add one comment. Only one copy of the > script lives in memory. When you use multiple "instances" of a > behavior (e.g., use the same behavior o

Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Irv Kalb
At 9:05 PM +0100 12/15/00, Clars wrote: >Actually, I think it's a good question - I'll try to shed some light. > >"me" resides at the heart of the difference between a simple sprite >script and a true behavior. If your behavior handlers end with "me", >they have two good things going for them: > >

Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Clars
Actually, I think it's a good question - I'll try to shed some light. "me" resides at the heart of the difference between a simple sprite script and a true behavior. If your behavior handlers end with "me", they have two good things going for them: 1). when a behavior initiates, an "instance" or

RE: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Robert Wingate
> what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in "me.spriteNum" "me" is a variable that points to an instance of an object in memory (an 'instance' of an object is analogous to the way a sprite is an 'instance' of a castMember). Explaining its use is a little beyond the scope of a few sentences

RE: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Johannes Hansen
You use "me" when you want to define that the current script should only be run by the sprite containg it. Like "on mousedown me" means that the script should only be run on the sprite cursor is over rather than executing it on all sprites containing that script. Therby you can make a single scrip

Re: basic lingo question

2000-12-15 Thread Mark A. Boyd
At 09:20 AM 12/15/00, Mushtaq Farooqui wrote: >The question is: what is the meaning of the characters "me" as in >"me.spriteNum", or "p" as in "pModel"? When does one use these? Check out this article on DOUG: "Me, my code and I" http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=837 -- Mark