and, or, nand, whatsit?

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

when you put more than one button in a thing that gets controlled, like the activation botton on a laser, or a mirror/destroy key, and all those kind of thing, to use those in sim, you have to press all the buttons you have inputted. thats called AND. i want a laser that has 4 activation buttons, but i want it in OR, not AND, its a lot easier to handle and mannage rather than FOUR lasers with FOUR different activation buttons with the SAME scripting. what im asking is that you have a drop bar showing AND, OR, NAND, NOT, XOR, NOR, XNOR, or whatever.

[Someone Else]

Hmm. I think I support this. Maybe there should be a textbox that expands last on lasers or motors or whatever, and you can type in what you want the logic to be. For example:

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(A AND S AND D) XOR (Z AND X AND C)

so it would activate when you press A, S, and D OR Z, X, and C, but not if you press both sets at once. And they should make this accessible thru Thyme.

Yes, I support.

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

wow, thats a big leap from my original idea. SUPPORT!!

[Kilinich]

You can simulate that by few lasers with buttons and simple script...

[frogman786]

Support +1

[Someone Else]

@Kilinich- Can you make it collision-based? And phunlet-safe? And high-acceleration-proof (meaning that if you drop it off a skycraper, it won't momentarily give false output or break)? And easy to use (as in what I poster earlier, as opposed to editing scripts of several lasers)?

My guess? No. But I did just kinda spaz. Okay fine. I completely spazzed, so no offense intended. You have uploaded too much highly useful stuff for me to intend any offense.

Okay, back on topic... and I will revise my previous code to this:

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(A S D) XOR (Z X C)

The AND operator is now implied. Hmm, figuring out the Algebraic Order of Operations for this will require some fooling around in Boolean logic. Let's see... AND will be dominant over OR (which is probably what Boole said anyway), so
()
NOT
AND/NAND
OR/NOR (steps involving a non-inverse operation and an inverse operation will proceed left-to-right)
XOR/XNOR
so

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(M AND N AND (W OR T)) OR (F AND N AND (NOT W)) OR B

will solve the cat problem in Chapter Ten of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Read the book to see what I mean.

So, Algodoo will perform a Boolean Test every simulation step, and turn the motor or laser or whatever on or off accordingly.

Anyway, if you hold N, O, and F, the motor or whatever will come on. Why?

Substitute 0s and 1s in place of letters. And simplify.
(0 x 1 x (0 + 0)) + (1 x 1 x (1 - 0)) + 0 = (0 x 1 x 0) + (1 x 1 x 1) + 0 = 0 + 1 + 0 = 1

And so the motor/laser/controller comes on.

Also, C syntax for the logical operators will also work: () ; ! ; && ; !& ; || ; !| and I don't know the syntax for the exclusive operands.

Wow...that is what I call a Really Long Post.

[TC42]

@Kilinich- Can you make it collision-based? And phunlet-safe? And high-acceleration-proof (meaning that if you drop it off a skycraper, it won't momentarily give false output or break)?

That's Kilinich you're talking about. He can do anything, bro.
/suckup-ness
But honestly, it would be way easier if there was either menu for this, or some SIMPLIFIED way to script this.

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

You can simulate that by few lasers with buttons and simple script...

yeah the script isnt important. and you CAN do it with more than one laser. the idea is to AVOID that stuff, to make it simple. i know thats an old post, but ive tried to reply to that about 4 times now.

[edwardfanboy]

Support!

[Nxdt]

The and function is already implimented i'm sure. You just push the two buttons at the same time. But an or/ andor would be good. Not is irrelevant because you can set the brake.

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

The and function is already implimented i'm sure. You just push the two buttons at the same time. But an or/ andor would be good. Not is irrelevant because you can set the brake.

what are you talking about dude? no one has implimented anything dude, its still a suggestion. and the "motor" thing, its for EVERYTHING that has a button that activates anything.