Hi Herb,<br><br>Yes, documentation is coming soon.<br><br>The pages are more for organization than anything else at this time. While in the future we will add warnings if a Dog tries to access a variable defined on the Cat page, for example, those checks aren't in place yet and the variables work for all breeds. In other words, while we provide the pages in an effort to provide an object-oriented framework, there is nothing forcing users to adhere to that.
<br><br>The Setup and Runtime pages are simply for organization; it is the blocks themselves that determine whether or not a button will be generated in the Spaceland window. However, we tend to put setup blocks on the Setup page, and Forever, Run (timed), and Run Once blocks on the Runtime page.
<br><br>The Collisions page does have special meaning for the experimental networking blocks (collision blocks on this page are shared with remote computers, allowing for interaction between breeds from different computers), but those will be removed in Beta 2 and replaced with a new experimental design.
<br><br>The Patches page used to have a special meaning in that variables defined here were stored in each patch rather than in the agents. However, the design was incomplete and we've removed support for patch variables until the design is finalized. Some old projects have the page, but hopefully none of them actually use the page. If they do, those projects most likely do not work anymore.
<br><br>Thanks for the question, and also for the nudge about documentation! We will be working on all of these issues in the near future. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.<br><br>Thanks,<br>--Daniel (for the SLTNG team)
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 8:50 AM, Herb Schilling <<a href="mailto:hschilling@nasa.gov">hschilling@nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi,<div><br></div><div> We are going to be using StarLogo TNG for some after-hour educational outreach activities. I really like it but I wish there were more complete documentation. </div><div> </div><div> I have played around with StarLogo TNG for a couple of days so I have some idea of what the various parts of the canvas are for but is there some documentation which explains what the Turtles ( or other agents ), Setup, Runtime, Globals, Patches, Collisions sections are for? How are these sections created ? I see some sample projects have a Collisions section but no Patches section and vice versa. It's not always obvious where you should put things. For example, where should the graph blocks go? I can see it being in the runtime or one of the agent sections.
</div><div><br></div><div> Does it only make sense to put a Setup block in the Setup section? What about the Runtime section? It seems like things you put in those two also show up as a button in the pane below SpaceLand. I see I can put Setup blocks in the Runtime section and things seem to work just like as if I put it in the Setup section. Are these sections just there for logical grouping of things?
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