alice-teacher (object)'s variable named (variableName) of type (valueClass) function help

[Don Slater]

This is a bug in the current version of Alice 2.2, which should be fixed in the next release, which will happen in the next couple of days…

Thank you for your patience,

Don Slater

On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Findley, Scott wrote:

> Question from a student regarding: (object)'s variable named (variableName) of type (valueClass) function help:
>  
> I'm trying to have Alice check the value of a variable in a list of objects and if that test returns false, I want to set that variable to a random number. However, alice's built in function for this, (object) 's variable named (variableName) of type (valueClass), only seems to be able to drop if the stars align (ie, I have no idea why it sometimes accepts it but mostly won't let me drop it in my code). Also I have only been successful in getting this to work when I'm checking a value in an if statement, however I also want to set the variable to a number. Here is kind of what I want my code to look like:
>  
> for all world.spawnPoints one item_from_spawnPoints at a time
>  if ((item_from_spawnPoints's variable named timeBuffer of type Number) <=0) //this I managed to do but it was very difficult to to get the function in there and I'm not sure how I did it.
>   //do stuff
>   item_from_spawnPoints's variable named timeBuffer of type Number set value to world.random number //I have no idea how to do this line...
>  else
>   //do other stuff
>  
> I realize I could get around this by using multiple class level methods and having them change their own local variable, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of a list (plus, I don't want to make 10+ methods when I could just use one).
> I'd appreciate any solutions you guys have.
>  
>  
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