Scratch

ScratchScripter wrote:

fullmoon wrote:

Any plans for a Linux version? I was just getting excited about 1.3 on my Ubuntu system and now this! I will try it with Wine, but it will likely have the same sound and timing issues 1.3.1 did.

You could install 1.3.1 and replace the image file at /usr/share/scratch/ with the 1.4 one. (I have xubuntu 9.04, it should be the same for ubuntu)

Awesomeness! The only thing is that the new .dll's won't work. I have 1.4 working reasonably well under Wine anyway.

Thanks for releasing this early, otherwise I think I would have died of impatience, however, I have a pretty serious bug to report. When uploaded, projects using the ask feature do not reset at all, you should fix that as now to reset I have to use the refresh button. I have done some more research and it seems that other such projects are resetting fine. Why might this be?

Last edited by kgordon (2009-06-07 14:21:00)

i have a bad connection so it might take awhile to download but it want it so im gonna get it

johnadmin wrote:

Yes, the experimental "mesh" feature was removed.

The "mesh" feature was a way to connect two (or more) computers running Scratch so that they could communicate. It appeared in one of the beta versions so that we could try it in a workshop session at MIT Scratch Day. It clearly has a lot of potential, but in that version it was also difficult to set up a mesh (e.g. you had to type in raw IP addresses) and some aspects of the communication were confusing.

Networked Scratch has potential, but it needs more work. We will continue to think about it and perhaps it will appear in a future version of Scratch.

  -- John

Personally, I'm quite happy about this. I was pretty frustrated when 1.4 beta came into full public view, and since this feature has been removed, I'm glad that this won't completely confuse the young scratchers that have gotten their hands on it. I now do not have to worry about insanely simple versions of the mutiplayer game I was to release (It was a chatbox-type thing in Scratch). The mesh feature was also incredibly unreliable, so putting out a complicated feature that barely works would cause a lot of problems.

johnadmin wrote:

At some point after the release is out we will update the "experimental" Linux package to 1.4. Meanwhile, you can definitely do what ScratchScripter suggests.

One bit of good news for Linux users: the note and drum blocks actually do something in Scratch 1.4. Changing the instrument doesn't change the sound, but you can get a sense of what a project using those blocks is doing.

  -- John

Great! Now people from all diferent types of OS'S can use the Preliminary version of scratch. I have Windows XP personaly.

Vista Issue

I've gotten a report from a Vista user that Scratch is not re-painting the screen when the window is resized. This problem will be fixed in the final version. It seems to work fine on Windows XP.

  -- John

mkolpnji wrote:

Bug: When importing/opening a project originally programmed in Scratch 1.3.1.
Many scripts do not work unless replaced...

Hi, mkolpnji.

I haven't seen this problem, and I've run a lot 1.3.1 projects in Scratch 1.4. Could you email a problem report to help@scratch.mit.edu? It would be great if you could attach the project you're having trouble with to your email.

Thanks!

  -- John

johnadmin wrote:

mkolpnji wrote:

Bug: When importing/opening a project originally programmed in Scratch 1.3.1.
Many scripts do not work unless replaced...

Hi, mkolpnji.

I haven't seen this problem, and I've run a lot 1.3.1 projects in Scratch 1.4. Could you email a problem report to help@scratch.mit.edu? It would be great if you could attach the project you're having trouble with to your email.

Thanks!

  -- John

My mistake, It actually only seems to be doing that when you import a project into a project... I'll send you it right now.

EDIT: hmm... I can't seem to reproduce the problem... I remember that I was deleting a  scripts in this project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mkolpnji/260687.
Then i undeleted it to get back some of the blocks I used in there... Later when I tried to use them with the command When flag clicked, it didn't work. I even tried to double click them to make them work... the blocks were the set variable to "something" blocks. I remember also copying and pasting some of the contents of the blocks...

Last edited by mkolpnji (2009-06-07 16:20:27)

BoltBait wrote:

Here is a bug for the new online player:

http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17837

I've seen that problem happen on the Scratch 1.3 player too. I guess it's the same player.

Cool, i don't want to get it yet though, I want to wait for the final one.

Awww, I am kinda sad that mesh is gone. I mean, if its buggy it could have at least still been kept as a hidden experimental feature.

Oh well 

Cool!!!!!

I love Scratch 1.4! I was like, was so suppose when I saw the color palette, because it was hard to get some certain shades I wanted. Plus the paint editor is now easier to draw on. I can't describe it, but it was like harder to use on the older version.
I don't know if this has been said or asked yet, but how do you use the camera thing?

EDIT - i'm also having a problem with the music i import onto scratch. it sounds all laggy and stuff. is anyone else having this problem?

Last edited by DotsandStripes (2009-06-07 21:51:28)