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Message: 5222

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 05/12/2005

Subject: Re: About switches in JSW64

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Igor Makovsky"
wrote:

>
> John, it is possible to make a switch turn on and off, so one time
> you've touched it - it moves to the "on" position, second time you've
> touched it - it returns to the "off" position, for example, right?
>
> I don't understand, what is it for? As I see, you can use the switch
> actually only once. A trigger to which that switch is connected, for
> example, will change something once and if you will use the switch
> again, nothing will happen. Trigger won't change anything again.

You'd have to use patch vectors.

> Is it really so? Or is this a bug? Why did you include such multi-
> action switches?

It's a side-effect of the design I chose; the same as 'stopped' and
'sticky' conveyors in JSW48.

 

 

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