Hi Brian,

It doesn't sound like a locale issue. The layer of the graphics that draws the 
turtles still sounds like it is separate from the background. If looking at it 
this way makes sense to you then maybe look at where the background layer is 
being generated and where the turtle layer is being generated. The turtle layer 
seems to be getting access to shared data across machines and the background 
layer seems to be using local data. Your turtle moves and it draws your pen on 
the local machine but not to the shared data layer. What would it look like to 
draw the pen to the shared data layer?  Are your turtle positions stored in a 
shared global variable? Should the turtle pens be stored in the same way?

I am sure you are thinking about this way already, so please let me know if my 
obvious questions are not helpful.

Cheers, bob

On Sep 29, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> There are only 2 files explicitly involved: tgsjhs.ijs and tgsjhsutils.ijs
> . The first "requires" the second and each begin with coclass'tgsj', and
> the former also includes coinsert'jhs' (I tried adding that to the second
> with no apparent change). So I don't see how that could be the cause of the
> problem. Do you?
> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:59 AM, robert therriault <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Brian,
>> 
>> The 30,000 foot view (and I apologize that I don't have time to dive
>> deeper at the moment) make me wonder if the turtles are defined in a
>> separate locale than the background? It strikes me that it is like the
>> times when I have used photoshop and find that what I can see I cannot
>> change because I am on the wrong layer. The background sounds as if it is
>> generated from the users machine but it uses a global layer to know where
>> the turtles are. If you are using locales joining the two levels could be
>> as easy as copath as a way to make some of the drawing verbs in the
>> background layer available to your turtles.
>> 
>> Hope this helps, but it is really a wild guess about your design.
>> 
>> Cheers, bob
>> 
>> --
> (B=)
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