<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 5, 2019, at 10:21 PM, Kelly, Terri <<a href="mailto:kellyt@bishopireton.org" class="">kellyt@bishopireton.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Don,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried to recreate it in a simple world and ... it worked. So... there must be something in this crazy world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a second problem that I would appreciate you taking a minute to look at.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So - the first problem is the calling of a class method from an item in an array ... the method I am trying to call is an automobile method named drive. I am calling it from the scene level method moveRow, which is called from myFirstMethod after setup is done. Setup appears to work properly and I have put in several say statements to narrow down the problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second issue is the event listener, collision... when I run this world, it takes FOREVER to return from running, unless I comment out the event listener. The event listener worked great when there was just a small array of automobiles (5 in number), but when I added the other 15 ... it just almost seems to hang when returning from running... It doesn't actually hang - it just takes forever to come back.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recreated the entire world (everything) in a new Alice world and ... created 4 collision event listeners each with an array of just 4 items and ... the delay in ending execution occurred again. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class="">Terri KElly</div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Computer Science<div class="">Bishop Ireton</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 6:00 PM Donald Slater <<a href="mailto:dslater@andrew.cmu.edu" class="">dslater@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Terri,<div class="">Would you mind sending a copy of your program? I am trying to recreate the problem based on your description, but I do not think I am getting it right, as everything seems to be working for me… I must be missing something…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, I am using the latest download of Alice available on <a href="http://alice.org/" target="_blank" class="">alice.org</a> (3.5). We added set and get indexed value into procedure and function list for all array properties, but I do not think that is related to your issue. But if you are using an older version of Alice you might try it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Don Slater</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alice Project<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 4, 2019, at 4:27 PM, Kelly, Terri <<a href="mailto:kellyt@bishopireton.org" target="_blank" class="">kellyt@bishopireton.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_7647762616223646831Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I have a world which is not behaving like I am expecting it to.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have an array of automobiles called rowA[]</div><div class="">I have a method created for automobiles called go</div><div class="">In go, the first thing I have this do is say it's Sthing (this say "" + SThing this)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I call go with blueTruck, it works fine, the truck says blueTruck and then moves forward</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">blueTruck.go()</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I call go with rowA[0].go ... Alice hangs, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, from the test method I have</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">blueTruck.go()</div><div class="">rowA[0] = blueTruck</div><div class="">rowA[0].say "" + Sthing rowA[0]</div><div class="">rowA[0].go</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any reason why I should not be able to call a class level method from an array that is of that type class? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Terri Kelly</div><div class="">Computer Science</div><div class="">Bishop Ireton High School</div><div class="">Alexandria, VA</div></div>
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