At 1:25 PM -0700 7/28/2001, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" wrote:
>> At 12:39 PM -0700 7/26/2001, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>> >"Geoff Canyon" wrote:
>> >> You should avoid using these fruitbats in your scripts.
>> >
>> >Damn. You mean I have to go back and rewrite everything? I always
>> >thought fruitbats were one of the most useful constructs in the whole
>> >language.
>>
>> Not only that, but the documentation for version 1.1 will feature a special
>> "Fruitbats Cookbook" with practical examples of fruitbat use, a "Fruitbats
>> Tutorial" showing how to create a fruitbat from scratch, step by step, and
>> an "About Fruitbats" topic in the Encyclopedia with detailed technical
>> information which will be useful even to advanced fruitbat scripters such
>> as Jacque.
>
>I have reviewed the beta release of the frutibat docs and I have to say
>you've done a wonderful job as usual. I could only find a single
>problem, but I think it is significant. In the part of the example
>script that says:
>
> put fruitbat theBat into theWater
>
>the line should probably be preceded by:
>
> set the consciousness of fruitbat theBat to false
>
>The only reason I mention it is because if the consciousness is true,
>the contents of theWater exceeds the windowBoundingRect and goes all
>over the desktop, which means you have to do an awful lot of cleanup
>after the script runs.
Jacque, you're absolutely right that this would be a potential problem in
the current version.
However, fortunately, Scott has solved this problem for an upcoming
version. In version 37.5c10 of the MC engine, the consciousness property is
set to false by default at idle time, making it safe to assume that all
Jeannes - er, fruitbats - are unconscious unless you've specifically
changed the property in the current handler or a calling handler. (I
understand that a lot of tech support requests for extra mops prompted this
change.)
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