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How do i make a script using golly so i can put it into the viewer on the site?

I'm new so this question may seem stupid.

darkcodeninja wrote:How do i make a script using golly so i can put it into the viewer on the site?

Well... "script" means something around here that I don't think you intend. A Lua or Python script runs inside Golly to perform various tasks. If you're interested in posting Conway's LIfe discoveries on this forum, you should probably download Golly.

Selecting and copying a pattern you've created in Golly will give you a text version of the pattern that's known as "RLE" -- run-length encoding. The resulting string can be pasted into a message inside [code ]...[/code] tags.

Are you looking for something like this?
Or possibly this?
In either case, welcome to the forums! Please read the forum rules; there's even a specific mention of methuselahs toward the bottom... so as drc has suggested, the general request is to keep non-notable methuselah discoveries to somewhere in the Sandbox, or one of the catch-all threads like this one.

i do mean the one designed on the bottom, because i would like to present it to the forums.

thanks for the warm welcome!

darkcodeninja wrote:i do mean the one designed on the bottom, because i would like to present it to the forums.

Okay. If you click the "Quote" button for my post above (without necessarily intending to send a response) you'll see how those two examples are done -- the "code" and "viewer" tags, and the LifeViewer script commands at the bottom after the RLE-coded section.

To see what other LifeViewer script commands are available for you to try, click on a LifeViewer window and type 'h'.

Thanks a bunch!