Scratch

Benbidean wrote:

Scratch needs to enable users to enter text and numeric data in response to on screen prompts as the program is running.

I agree with you on this.  It would enable a lot of great projects.  I'm pretty sure the Scratch Team is thinking about the best way to do that.  Any thoughts on how you think those capabilites should be integrated into the Scratch model?  What new blocks do you visualize?  Or additional capabilites added to existing blocks?

I would hope that, along with this capability, the Scratch Team would add some basic string functions so that the text values entered at run time can be processed properly.  Something like the regular expressions in Python would be nice...but probably not realistic.  At a bare minimum, I feel we should be able to map a text string into a list and vice-versa (without the spaces between the letters).  Then, we could write our own string functions.  Maybe we could even use something like Jen's Build Your Own Block format to encapsulate them neatly!

do you mean a textbox that can be typed into on the program? If so I think the easiest method this could be achieved is through modifying the properties of a sprite so that text cannn be inserted to, much like the one im using now to type in what im saying

likegames wrote:

you can do that in lists in development mode.

Yeah, but not online or anything.

My idea would be to have a new type of variable display. There's already normal, slider, and large, why not add text box (which hopefully would be resizable like lists, but only in development mode)? With the introduction of text strings, you'd think they'd need a way better to use them!

Last edited by coolstuff (2008-11-01 08:50:01)

I think, if I get what you want, easiest way would be something like:
<if (blah) typed in> or something like that.

you should be able to type in text on and offline.  this can be simulated with a list and if
"item 1 of list= R" and stuff. this could be like entering a username!