Scratch

LifeLearner12 wrote:

(1)
I'd like to be able to tel a sprite to ignore all broadcasts for awhile, then later tell it to start listening again.
Is this possible? (and how?)

(2)
Also, is there any type of advanced tutorial on broadcasts?
When they fire, somethings the sprite doesn't return back to previously running code after the broadcast is done (to the code I expected it to). I'd like to learn more about how broadcasts work.

(1) if you do not tell a sprite to recieve a broadcast "when i recieve..." it will not answer it

(2) Erm- I'll see what i can do.. ahem!

Well, you use the "broadcast" block to send out a message to sprites and if you tell a sprite to answer it "when i recieve" it will. All other times it will ignore it

You may have noticed there are two types of broadcasting

"broadcast and wait" means it waits for the recieving sprite to complete the recieve task before it continues on it's script and plain "broadcast" means once it has broadcasted, it continues.

Was this any help? if you need me to explain anything just ask 

OK, so I'm gonna try to explain what I think know want to know, magnie already did it, but lets go deeper!

Scripts of the 'Sending' sprite (sender):

When [space v] key pressed
broadcast [jump v]


When [q v] key pressed
set [receive_braodcast v] to [1] //'1' means yes and 0 means no, right now its listening.

When [w v] key pressed
set [receive_braodcast v] to [0] //you can set the q or w keys to any alphabet or condition.

when i receive [jump v]
if <(receiving_braodcast) = [1]>
 move [10] steps //here you can type any script you want.
end

All of these go in the receiving sprite:

when I receive [message1 v]
        set [receiving_broadcast? v] to [0]
        say [Do stuff]
        set [receiving_broadcast? v] to [1]
    
when I receive [message2 v]
        if <(receiving_broadcast?) = [1]>
        say [do stuff] 
        end

Last edited by notaloser (2012-10-25 07:49:01)

Thanks everyone. Judging by the responses, the feature I am looking for just doesn't exist in Scratch - but you did give me some ideas on how to handle symptoms.

thanks