Scratch

alemenor, you can download the complete Source Code for Scratch, including the complete programming environment for free from http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/source . If you browse through the forums you'll also notice that some derivative works have already been made available to the public.

Presentation mode and graphic effects work in Linux (ubuntu), c.f.
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 791#p54791.

if your thinking of writing a scratch program for linux then you might ans well write it in linux 

olivluca wrote:

johnm wrote:

- the "note" and "drum" commands (require a MIDI package)

what do you mean with a "MIDI package"? I tried with either a real midi device (a yamaha piano) or fluidsynth. With both methods I can reproduce midi file with, e.g., kmid.
OTOH squeak (I mean squeak.image) has a rudimentary midi player (If I drag & drop a midi file to the squeak window it plays just fine)

I checked out an svn version of the squeak vm since it now has a midi plugin that plays through alsa.
I'm running timidity and the wine version of scratch can play the notes through it, however the linux version with the new vm still doesn't. Any hint? Do I have to do something special to enable the Midi Plugin or should it be automatically loaded by scratch?
BTW, with the new vm (and also with the released 3.10-1) the close button does nothing.

I hacked an "snd_seq_connect_to(seq, out_port, 128,0)" into the function sqMIDIOpenPort and now I can play notes under linux.
There must be a cleaner way, meanwhile I'm trying to backport the midi plugin to the 3.9.8 squeak vm.

Wow, great stuff! I'm trying to help out on the midi issues under linux too, so can test out anything you come up with (Ubuntu 8.04).  In exploring this issue I came upon command aplaymidi -l, which lists all active midi ports, and it does appear that when installed timidity is always listening on 128:0 (whether it has been executed first in server mode or not).  So aplaymidi will play files when given the correct port as an argument without having to start timidity in server mode.

Last edited by Lightnin (2008-11-13 22:08:58)

Please see the latest on a Linux Installer over at
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_installer

Hello,

I tested the scratch_1.3.1-0.4_i386.deb, and I was impressed.

  * Tested on Ubuntu 8.04
  * The installer created a Scratch menu entry in GNOME, under "Applications"...."Programming".  Very nice touch!!!
  * I ran several of the sample programs, and the response time on the programs was fine.  I will test some of the more intensive games later, and give a follow-up.
  * Uninstall worked successfully from Synaptic Package Manager, as far as I can tell.  It removed the Scratch Menu Entry from the Applications menu.  I didn't check whether it removed the binaries though.
 
Bugs/Problems

  * When you go to Open a project, there are four buttons on the side.  These four buttons are shortcuts for "Home", "Projects", "My Computer", and "Desktop".  The only one that really takes you to the correct place in the filesystem is the "Projects" button.  However, I know that this is probably difficult to fix.
  * When you press "Save", the default place where Scratch wants you to save your project is to the "Projects" folder.  This is reasonable.  However, the .deb package installs Scratch to a directory that is not writable by the average user.  So, when you go to save, and choose the default location "Projects", you get a "permission denied" error.

Good job!

Wow, that .deb works great - smooth install on my Ubuntu 8.04! Huzzah and great work to all who contributed to the making of this package!

My $0.02 on default file locations...

My Computer - It is hard to think of a good clean solution for this - perhaps / is best for now.  Ideally you would want it to show the user drives and media attached to the computer - the same thing Nautilus shows you when click Places > Computer on the default Ubuntu menu. But this doesn't seem to really exist in the filesystem so I guess Nautilus is simulating it.

Home - yes, user's home directory.
desktop - yes, user's desktop.

Where to save projects by default? ~/Documents would be a good compromise. Another thing to consider would be to have Scratch check if this is the first time it has been run by the user and if so create a directory called "Scratch" in their home folder and copy the Media and Projects folders into it. This might avoid some of the permission problems users might otherwise encounter if they tweak a project that came with Scratch and try to save it in its original file / location.

hi I'm using ubuntu linex and i can't use scratch game on the Internet

We Linux Bugs are waiting ^_^

Hi, rcodinap,

I guess you need to add a vm option to use sound function.

/usr/lib/scratch/squeak/3.9-8/squeak  -plugins /usr/lib/scratch/squeak/3.9-8  -vm-sound-OSS ScratchSourceCode1.3.1synth.image

If you cannot hear any sound, try to use -vm-sound-ALSA instead of -vm-sound-OSS.

Cheers,
Kazuhiro Abe