Algodoo

I don't get it. What exactly does this do? How is it used?

Use the arrow keys to move the unicode square thats all it does and use the red slider and drag it to set the frame rate. ( Or the change rate. )

Note that each time the purple thing hits the textbox the text changes.

Quote: "Use the arrow keys to move the unicode square thats all it does..."

Really? What's the point?

Quote: "use the red slider and drag it to set the frame rate."

Again, what's the point? Oh, by the way, that slider doesn't have physical limits, and so it can slide totally off the bar, right and left.

Quote: "Note that each time the purple thing hits the textbox the text changes."

Umm... What text?

42flowermaster -- I truly don't intend to be critical or sarcastic about your scene, but I must admit that, without detailed instructions and explanations, I don't have the foggiest idea what you created. I suspect others are equally bewildered.

1. Its all on unicode, so maybe ur computer does not render it.
a. u see the square on the box with text if u dont see text then w h a t
.....I see it

2. there is no point its just that
3. The red slider does not have limits, and it controls the purple box spin.

THE TEXT IS ON THE BLACK TEXT BOX press and hold right and then u see the square move. done.

just press and hold the arrow keys on the start only right and down because if square ( IN THE BLACK TEXTBOX [ NOT THE CIRCLES , JUST THE SQUARE WITH THE DOT ON IT ] ) out of map then it glitches.

now look at the BLACK textbox now see the circles? There should be a text unicode square out of them.

if u want to use slider than DRAG it. You can drag it out of the physical "limits."

tell me if u see the text if not then i has to be an unicode error with your computer.

1. Remember, press and hold arrow keys.
2. Do NOT let the border of the map touch my one and only square.

Okay, that explains the problem. You see text but I do not! All I see are little squares.... lots of little squares.

Now I'm sure you understand the source of my confusion.

I did take a look at your code in that text box, and all I see there is an array of text squares. There are no alphabetic characters. So maybe you are using a character set that my computer doesn't recognize, what you are calling "unicode".

My browser is "FireFox" and that might be the problem. I'll take a look at this scene on another computer. My wife uses a laptop which is a different brand than my desktop, so maybe that will make a difference. I'll let you know (that's if I can get her to give up her computer for five minutes!)

Edit: Luckily she wasn't using her computer, so I loaded your scene, and I also had to load Algodoo (she has no idea what Algodoo is). And her browser is different than mine. It's Chrome. The result? SAME PROBLEM. I opened up your scene and copied the contents of your local variable named _txt and this is what I copied: "▣▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢
▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢▢"

So, since my computer AND my wife's computer cannot render your unicode text, then I would bet that other users here on Algobox are experiencing the same issue.

Edit2: Why does the character set need to be "unicode"? Why not use the default character set or some other common one that most people would have?

Ok I wil try to make a better version with compatible text.

Does your computer only handle alphabetical or the whole range of ASCII at least?

I have a modern/fast computer, and so it normally can display just about every ASCII character set available. Until your scene came along, I did not run into this problem. So, I am at a loss to understand what's going on. I was hoping that other people would chime in here to let us know if they have the same issue that I am having.

Ok, I am making a revamp thats gonna fix just about every problem I find on the scene.

The new version will include three ASCII symbols, ░, ▒, and ▓. i am gonna comment again if i change them. Tell me if you render them.

Now, with this new version, I see a maze of light and dark rectangles. I can move the "cursor" around between those light and dark rectangles sort of like moving through a maze. Is this what you intended?

Looks kinda cool, actually. The code would use some cleaning up, but it's still a nice demo