Scratch

I've got it selected (highlited in green on my screen), but whenever I navigate to the 'File It In' the text loses focus and seems to lose the highlight, I've tried keeping my cursor over the text in the workspace to keep it highlighted and to navigate to the menu item using keyboard, but can't seem to do that or figure out another way...blergh. Feeeling pretty newbie right now.

Hardmath123 wrote:

This isn't really a basic question, I myself never really got a nice, clean import. Do you want a user-friendly menu, or do you want to add the code yourself?

Frankly, I'd be happy either way. I'd been pursuing the menu as I figured that would be the best way in the long run, but you raise a good point that focusing on simply adding in the blocks myself more manually might be the more robust way. I'll scan the forums for how to handle that, give it a shot, then cry for help again if needed. :-)

Well, no luck so far. I followed the links and read through everything I could. I certainly understand using the browser to find the block specs and can copy/paste the block spec for the block I want and then save it...but then when I switch over to 'instance' I can't seem to copy/paste the code into any of the files I find, and when I paste the code into a new Workspace I can find the option to save to a file...but don't know where and suspect this is not what I should be doing. It would be nice for people not familiar with Squeak/Scratch class hierarchy and environment to have a video by someone showing how to install custom blocks. :-(

Help. :-) I'm trying to get some of the blocks implemented that would help my 9 year old complete here game which is I why I won't quit until I figure this out.

By the way, we're you saving the image and then re-opening Scratch when filing in those patches? Menus and most other interface objects don't appear until you tell them to -- which is what saving the image does 

brockgs wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

Alright, I'll help you out.

Open up the Browser, and navigate to Scratch-Objects > ScriptableScratchMorph > (class button) > block specs > blockSpecs

I assume you know how to add a blockspec, so moving on to the code:

Navigate to Scratch-Objects > ScriptableScratchMorph > (instance button) > other ops. Then look at the coding pane. There's a sample method highlighted in green. Replace it with the block's actual code.

Whenever you change something, remember to alt-click on the coding pane and select "accept".

Enjoy! 

WONDERFUL! It works flawlessly. When I have time later today I'm going to create a YouTube video for other people like me who need a little extra help getting this far. Thanks so much.

That's great, I'm glad I could help.