On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dick, > > first of all, thanks for your efforts using the new turtle module > and reporting about your experiences and the problems you ran into.
Sure. And I'm not finished. There seem to be some interesting new things worth investigating. > I've already made some remarks on it in a former reply in this thread. Yes. Thanks. >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> ... >>>> >>>> 2. The turtle can also be seen moving from the last corner of the last >>>> rectangle to the first corner of the next. I don't want this. >>>> >>> >>> Again true of a physical turtle... But if you set speed to fastest >>> does that work? Also in the old turtle moduile there was a way to >>> hide the turtles movements completely and just draw the finished >>> graphic - which was orders of magnitude faster for complex >>> shapes - is that still available in turtle26? >>> > > Here better tracer() should come in! 'Deprecated in version 2.6'?? And the doc gives nary a clue how to use it. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/turtle.html#turtle.tracer >> Yes, penup(). >> <http://docs.python.org/dev/library/turtle.html#turtle.penup> >> >>> >>> Maybe more not understanding(remembering) the origin of turtle graphics. >>> It was for kids to understand computer graphics... Seeing the shapes >>> being drawn is a big part of that. >>> > > That's why now turtles have got a better animation. (That means: the > resulting drawing should be > the same weather you use the old module or the new one, but *not* what you > see, when you observe > the turtles at work. Therfore I wrote (nearly?) 100% compatible. And of > course, the now one > has a lot of additional enhacements.) And I'm going to have questions! Already have one. What is tracer()? Thanks for these: <http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Demo/turtle/> Dick =================================================== Have you seen Kelie Feng's video introducing the terrific and free IDE, Ulipad? <http://www.rcblue.com/u3/> Get Ulipad 3.9 from <http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/downloads/list> svn for the latest revision <http://ulipad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/> Mailing list for Ulipad: <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ulipad> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor