Re: [Edu-sig] some turtle questions

2010-01-25 Thread kirby urner
Hi Brian -- If you wanna go to a lot of work, but not a huge amount, write wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle that intercepts its commands and updates an on-board data structure, representing pixels x pixels, specifying self position, keep color info stashed per each one. That's a lot

Re: [Edu-sig] some turtle questions

2010-01-24 Thread Helene Martin
I'm almost sure that there's no way for a turtle to know anything about the background. That's an unfortunate limitation! As for putting a limit on a turtle's travel, you need to write an appropriate conditional. For example, if you want your turtle to stay within a 200x200 square centered

Re: [Edu-sig] some turtle questions

2010-01-24 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Helene Martin: I'm almost sure that there's no way for a turtle to know anything about the background. That's an unfortunate limitation! The background for the turtle is just a Tkinter canvas. So yes, it's technically possible to inspect things there, since there is method to obtain the