Spritr follow mouse with delay..???

[OrganicJerk_1]

This is actually for my roomate, and I'm trying to get rid of his defeatist
attitude...

Can anyone help me with a script or command to have a sprite follow the mouse
cursor, with a Delay.....so basically, it would be as though the sprite were
"chasing" the mouse arrow....slow or regular speed, it wouldn't matter...

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

[JB]

-- Here's a behavior for what you described


-- follow mouse with log

property lagFIFO

on beginSprite
lagFIFO = []
end

on prepareFrame me
-- the 10 below establshes the number of frames delay
if count(lagFIFO) >= 10 then deleteAt lagFIFO, count(lagFIFO)
addAt lagFIFO, 1, the mouseLoc
sprite(me.spriteNum).loc = lagFIFO[count(lagFIFO)]
if optiondown() then put lagFIFO
end





-- this is probably more like what is needed
-- ( no mass momentum in this simple one )


-- weak mouse atraction

on prepareFrame me
-- 5 is the lag factor
sprite(me.spriteNum).loc = sprite(me.spriteNum).loc + ( the mouseLoc
- sprite(me.spriteNum).loc) / 5
end