alice-teacher FYI Alice 3.0

[James Vanderhyde]

Mike, after trying for a while I couldn't figure out how to do it. I did find mouse-related functions "mouse distance from left edge" and "mouse distance from top edge" in the World function, but I couldn't get them to do anything. Sorry.

James
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Dr. James Vanderhyde
Math and Computer Science
Benedictine College
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On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Milbury, Michael wrote:

> Is it possible in Alice to have an object follow the mouse?  I have a student creating a game, and he would like to have a fire object follow the mouse before he clicks on an object to 'kill it' with fire.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice-teachers-bounces+michael.milbury=culver.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+michael.milbury=culver.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of A. Jeff Goldstein
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:34 PM
> To: Alice educators
> Subject: alice-teacher FYI Alice 3.0
> 
> Alice 3.0 went from Beta to distribution, recently.  
> I attended an Oracle Java workshop at Towson University this summer, where the developers came in to present the new version to our group.
> 
> It was very interesting that Alice 3.0 has the capability of changing its drag/drop code to actual Java code.  But not vice-versa.
> 
> Now, to get our older books updated... That's a different story.  Our district books cover Alice 2.2.
> 
> If you have not seen the 3.0, I suggest viewing it.  It's quite a radical change from version 2.x
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jeff Goldstein
> Cox HS, AP Computer Programming & Computer Science www.jeffgold.net 
> 
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