[Etoys] "player's" becomes "nil's"; value types

[Markus Schlager]

Hi all,

I encountered the following phenomenon, which IMO is quite irritating.
It's about "player"-Tiles in scripts with a parameter (screenshots 
attached).

I made an empty script with a player-typed parameter an added a basic 
method and varaiable-assignment (EllipseTalkTo1.png):

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   Ellipse forward:5
   Ellipse's heading :=0

Then I drag player-tiles off the parameter-area to replace the 
Ellipse-tiles (EllipseTalkTo2.png):

Now it looks like

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   Player forward:5
   nil's heading :=0

It _should_ look like

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   player forward:5
   player's heading :=0

Then I change the parameter-type to sth. different and back 
(EllipseTalkTo3.png, EllipseTalkTo4.png): "Player" and "nil" become "dot":

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   dot forward:5
   dot heading :=0

The _should_ be:

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   dot forward:5
   dot's heading :=0

I repeat step two an drag 'player'-tiles to replace the 'dot'-tiles. Now 
it looks like (EllipseTalkTo5.png)

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   Player forward:5
   Player heading :=0


It _should_ look like

Ellipse>>talkto: player
   player forward:5
   player's heading :=0

So there are three problems:

- Should "player" be capitalized everywhere or nowhere?
- Why does "player's" become "nil's" at the beginning?
- Why is "'s" missing from the moment at which "dot" appears?

And finally I have a request from the point of localization: All 
value-types of variables or parameters should get marked translatable. At 
the moment this is true for 'Color' and 'Sound' only.

Markus
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  Markus Schlager                  m.slg at gmx.de
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