[Etoys] Welcome project fills up trash

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sun Nov 12 15:05:14 EST 2006


Alan Kay skrev:
> Hi Bert and Yoshiki --
>
> The Trash Can has not been objectified into Etoys (grumble), nor is 
> there a "do menu item" for this (mumble), but the Squeak to empty it is:
>
>           Utilities emptyScrapsBook
>
> And this could be put in the (textualized) script of the polygon arrow 
> button which is the last thing that the replay finger touches.
I have  missed a place to throw away stuff from scripts and have 
implemented them my self several times,
for example if I make bullets or multiple copies of players, they can be 
hard to get rid of.
Couldn't the trash be a special holder that get's cleaned from time to 
time ?
Karl


>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> -------------
>
>
> At 09:21 AM 11/12/2006, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>>   Bert,
>>
>> > when letting your Welcome project run for a while, in each iteration
>> > a new copy of the painted car is added to the trash. If someone would
>> > let run this for a longer period, which is not unreasonable for demo
>> > purposes, we might run out of memory ...
>>
>>   On the other hand, I have been doing exactly that over OOPSLA period
>> and it was working.  It should survive a few days time period.
>>
>> -- Yoshiki
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