#133 MACHINE has been extended

[Manfred Zindel]

For more than half a year I had to withdraw from my work for pbreport and our partners and take care of my health, including all the organizational and administrative work that goes with it.

Fortunately, all this was very successful in the end, and so I can now continue with FMSLogo, too, where the work stopped, step by step.

For the autumn holidays we are planning a first course of 16 hours (meant for young people, not for kids) for which there should be a printed course book. If all goes well, this will be the start of a series of courses, each with some progress compared to the previous one, and each with a special addendum for teachers. I will report on details later.

Looking at FMSLogo 8.3.1+ (the latest version we have at pbreport) I found to my surprise that MACHINE has two new items - 16 XScrollPosition and 17 YScrollPosition, which can be used to find out how many invisible pixels are present to the left and above the top.

This is a great thing for our copter project which we still aim to finish when there is time. And there are certainly more interesting use cases for these new features of MACHINE.

So, please, watch out for more news to come from pbreport.

[David Costanzo]

Glad to hear that you're healthy, Manfred.

The feature to which you refer was requested by you and tracked as Feature Request #131.