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Found it, many thanks.

you're welcome

Thank you. It seems to work with the new version.

In the latest version it works for me fine, you'll need to update though. There is the possibility that it doesn't work when you update depending on what system you're running on. In short, it's because there's no feasible solution to guarantee with 100% accuracy that any key is what it says it is. It should work in the latest release, but if not there's not a lot we can really do about it - you'll have to use another key.

The short answer is: you can't. The long answer is: it's technically possible, but it would be a real pain. Greenfoot was never designed to be a standalone API, so trying to use it like that is not supported. If you really want to do it, export (share) from Greenfoot as an application, then look inside the JAR, pull out all the classes and files and try to build an Eclipse configuration with that. But I'm afraid you're on your own with that. If you want to move on to Eclipse rather than use Greenfoot, I'd suggest you look for a suitable Java library to support game development. A quick

Yeah I agree with kiarocks. :p

Thanks again. Happy that I've been able to do this as I'm only just starting my fourth week at sixth form college, at which I'm doing (among several subjects) higher level computer science... so yeah I'm very new :)

I think move(double) is possibly good if you're doing precision work; I just provided move(int) and turn(int) in Turtle as 'nccb' suggested. Fixed version with some pretty fractal trees & snowflakes at Fractal turtles scenario I must say this is a very fun environment to play in for someone who is used to emacs & make! Kind regards Paul

The signature for your addedToWorld method is wrong. You have: <Code Omitted> Whereas it should be: <Code Omitted> (I missed the typecast earlier - it is necessary of course because you are assigning a World expression to a WombatWorld variable). Because the method is not defined correctly, it doesn't override the method from the Actor class.

davmac, your post has been recieved -- thank you.

Greenfoot 2.1.2 does fix the problem. Thanks. I liked the old installer for windows better, though. the msi forced me to uninstall greenfoot 2.1.0 before installing 2.1.2. The old greenfoot and bluej installer would cleanly overwrite a previous version in same install dir.