alice-teacher switching which object is controlled by arrows

[Don Slater]

Tony,
Thank you for pointing this out… It seems that the Let Arrow Keys Control event is expecting an object of a specific type, and the variable we created does not meet that spec…

Something for us to look into…

Happy Thanksgiving,
Don Slater

On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Tony Bowes wrote:

> It would seem that directly referencing the activeObject as the source for "Let the arrow keys control .." throws an exception:
> java.lang.ClassCastException: edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.Variable cannot be cast to edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.Transformable
> 
> ... however setting each individual key (up,down,left,right) to move the activeObject will work as expected.
> 
> Tony Bowes
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I have created a world level object variable and named it "activeObject"…
> 
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