Having strange problem with the 'clone' command

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jul 7 09:54:17 EDT 2010


Alex Tweedly wrote:
> I've created one (called, with great imagination :), "R1") which has all
> the correct characteristics, including a width and height of 8
>
> But when I clone it to create my other shapes, the widths and heights
> all come out to 120 instead of 8. I can fix this up (as I do in the
> following code), but I don't understand why that would be necessary (or
> what other properties might be different from what I expect).

I suspect that locking messages before the loop will prevent the IDE 
from intercepting the newGraphic message which it seems to be using to 
alter the new objects.

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