Using the run/tell block on multiple sprites at once

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I'm experimenting with these blocks and wondering if there's a way to do something like this (I can't post images or links currently):

https://i.imgur.com/WyjEmUE.png

or

https://i.imgur.com/uFQd2re.png

This doesn't work as the blocks don't accept a list of sprites. Using a for each loop means they rotate one-by-one, rather than all at once.

I'm sure there are many different ways to do this, but I'm curious about methods similar to the examples given.

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What if inside the FOR EACH you LAUNCH (script OF sprite)? Does that do what you want?

I think if we were to invent TELL (list of sprites) TO (script) it'd do them one at a time, just like FOR EACH, so you'd still have to LAUNCH the scripts.

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Ah thanks, I did want a launch in a for each.

What's confusing me now is that these two scripts work differently:

https://i.imgur.com/MWohjds.png

https://i.imgur.com/i7fUoPU.png

The latter script seems to ignore the first item in the list, and instead rotate the last item twice as much.

The former works for what I want to do though at least.

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Oh, I had to tell the item to launch, rather than launch the tell. Not sure why.

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I'm not sure I know the answer. Maybe it has to do with how the scheduler orders threads; launching the tell means that all the threads are carried out by the original sprite, whereas telling the launch makes one thread in each object.

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Could it be that item is updated before the launched tell runs?

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