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Sorry, I guess you couldn’t see my screenshot. Below is my code that demonstrates the problem. It seems like the world itself is already gone when the End code is executed. You don’t even need any code in the method that is called.
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<div class="">On Feb 28, 2017, at 11:46 AM, robert durtschi <<a href="mailto:robert.durtschi@gcsu.edu" class="">robert.durtschi@gcsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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Primary use I've made in While the World is Running is using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">during</b>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
"while the world is running during: seaplane propeller roll 20 times, style abruptly<br class="">
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the end option would not necessarily be for the world event.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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Begin would be triggered on the leading edge of the key press.<br class="">
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End would be triggered on the trailing edge of the key release.<br class="">
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What I suspect is happening in your case is that the event handler disappears when the program stops. What exactly did you put in the "end" section?<br class="">
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In Alice 2, you can right-click on the ?When the world starts? event and change it to ?While the world is running.? I?m not sure why this feature is useful, but it doesn?t seem to work completely. If you put something in the ?End? portion of this event, when
you Play the animation and then Stop it (or close the window), you get the Queen reporting a NullPointerException. (See attached screenshot.)<br class="">
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I?m not sure what the correct behavior should be. I would like it to do the thing I said in the event before the window closes, but then arbitrary user code could generate an infinite loop and make the window impossible to close. Maybe hitting Stop during the
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Or maybe just remove the End option in the event, so we don?t see the error.<br class="">
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