Continous movement in App Lab

[mwood]

@CeciliaZ is correct for Game Lab. It’s more tricky in App Lab. Here’s a previous thread about continuous motion in App Lab.

Making an Image move in the app clicker game

Big picture: the topic of animation is a source of confusion both in App Lab AND generally. Generally speaking you can’t use loops to create animation effects in App Lab - this has to do with the event-driven paradigm of App Lab. If you’re running a loop, that takes over the machine and it can’t do other things in parallel, like listen for events. The source of confusion is of our own making – when you use loops with the Turtle it does cause an animation-like effect. That’s because we did b…

Mike