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killerchip · 2012-08-17 12:21:47

It would be great to have event reception block to be based on variable content.

For example:

when I receive (myevent)

It' great that you can do it with broadcast.

You see when I create a sprite I create a prototype (e.g. spaceship1) with all scenarios in it handling events like

when I receive [ship1.destroy]

when I receive [ship1.launch]

etc.

When I'm done, I copy the original sprite to multiple ones so I can use in game (e.g. spaceship2, spaceship3, etc.)
But with each copy I need to go and change manually all event handlers.

If I had

when I receive <join(myname).[destroy]>

It would be easy to replicate, and re-use the sprite in other projects. It could be easier to share with other scratchers as a kind of 'black-box' object, without having to 'mess' with the code.

Any suggestions on this idea?

Thanks
Costas

Lucario621 · 2012-08-17 13:25:18

Hmm, I see what you mean. It's sometimes a a bit disappointing that you can't put blocks (such as variables) inside of the "when I receive" block. That would certainly allow more possibilities for creative uses of broadcasts. But you would still have to manually change "myname" for each ship, right? So either way there's a bit of work involved.

killerchip · 2012-08-17 16:38:35

Yes. But you have to change only the 'myname' variable at one place (usually at 'when fg clicked', instead of searching through the code for all events :-)

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variable based event receptions

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