[MWForum]Turtle Peg Game

[Wendy Petti]

Thanks for sharing - that's a great project!
(It is now posted on the attachments page at
http://www.mathcats.com/mwforum/attachments.html )

In answer to your questions:

1) I used MW Pro 1.02 to view your project. There is no stop button on
the announcement windows.  There is no interference of the bottom frame
with the OK button.  It all displayed just fine for me.

2) You raise a good point about exiting a project while in presentation
mode.  The precursor to MicroWorlds - Logowriter - did indeed have a
"bye" command to exit the program.  To my knowledge there is not this
capability with any existing version of MW. But here is my suggestion:

You can create a web page and display the project within the web page
using the MW Web Player.  In this way the project can be shared with
anyone, whether or not they own MW - they just need the free
(downloadable) web player.  Then the user can simply close the browser
window or use the browser's back button or follow a hyperlink on the web
page or within the project page to leave the game... perhaps to return
to a contents page linking to more MW projects.  You can use a web
browser to display your project for online or offline use.  For
instance, Garry Clark's great CD of 100+ mathematical activities are all
created with MicroWorlds and are all accessed through web pages so that
the user can find projects through a user-friendly menu.  And this does
make a cleaner interface where the user need never see the working area
of the MW projects (unless the user is MW-savvy and wants to poke behind
the scenes by accessing the projects through MW instead of through web
pages).  Garry includes the MW web player on his CD, for those who don't
already have it.  (On my Math Cats website I include a link to the MW
web player download page from each web page displaying my MW projects.)

By the way, the URL for learning more about (and ordering) Garry's CD
is:

http://www.northnet.com.au/~mathsactivities/mathact.htm

I've really learned a lot of sophisticated MW programming strategies
from studying some of his projects, and the games themselves are fun...
like yours!!

Wendy Petti

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mwforum-admin@lists.mathcats.com]On Behalf Of jafr1n@icdc.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 7:00 AM
> To: mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
> Subject: [MWForum]Turtle Peg Game
>
>
> Hi Forum Members
>
> This is the first phone-internet connection with
> upload/download capability
> that I've had in many weeks. I'm still snowbirding in an RV
> with a laptop.
> Since I started traveling, I've been unable to motivate my
> grandson (back home)
> with his MicroWorld. That will have to wait till I get back.
>
> To keep my own brain cells active (and improve my MicroWorlds
> skills)  I just
> finished writing a MicroWorlds version of a Peg Board Game
> that I saw at a
> CrackerBarrel restaurant. (Every image I see I wonder, ......
> can I do that
> with my Turtle? ... I've become a Turtle Logo addict ... )
>
> The game I saw, consisted of a small triangular peg board
> with 15 holes and 14
> pegs. Where the Object is  -- jump and remove pegs until only
> one is peg left.
> Get down to one peg left , you're consided a genius ... don't
> know about that!
> But the implementation of the game was an interesting challenge!
>
> I used a click-click technique as opposed to a drag-and-drop
> technique to move
> a peg.
>
> I noticed 2 problems with MicroWorlds (I'm using MicroWorlds
> Pro Version 1.0):
>
> 1. Why does the bottom frame of the Announcement Window cut
> thru the middle of
> the Stop & OK buttons?  (is this a minor bug in MicroWorlds?)
>
> 2. Is Exit from MWPro programmable some way? Can't find a
> procedural Exit
> Command.
>     I searched the help file, but couldn't find one. (tried
> BYE, FINI, EXIT,
> GOOD-BYE, ESCAPE .... SAYANARA ...etc.?).
>     I'd like to have an (Exit) Button in a Project so a user
> can Exit MWPro
> while in "Presentation Mode". (I don't want the user to have
> to press Esc >
> File > Exit).
>
> See attachment ... turtle-peg-game-01.mw2
>
> Regards
> J.