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rdococ · 2010-08-16 06:21:54

It happened more than 1 time to me today! It happened more than 3 in a row!

scratchisthebest · 2010-08-18 14:17:04

johnnydean1 wrote:
I have replicated it several times in Panther and heres how. I have a serveral (10) very long scripts on a sprite (all diffrent blocks) and it gets cloned in 1 script. When it is cloned all the text goes, unless in presentation mode. Get it. Its when the Scratch program is tring to do too much. When it rebuilds all the text (for the cloneing) it lags behind as its proccessing the 10 scripts.

So its when its overloaded and rebuilds the text.

I think that's it!

A similar problem happened while I was remixing a rubick's cube project to be keyboard controlled. Step 1 was to remove the glitchy solver. The solver was split into 5 parts. On the fourth, all of the scripts I could see either had no text or (for the click hats) said StringMorph.

when StringMorph clicked

zorket · 2010-10-09 19:06:24

Of course your right. If you guests don't believe him, highlight the below.

Told ya!

The glitch doesn't happen to me often... Why do I have to close it quickly? It happend first to me when I was a young scratcher.

Last edited by zorket (2010-10-09 19:08:29)

platform710 · 2010-10-09 20:47:37

OK good I am not the only one this has happened to smile . I can't think of a better way to make it not happen. It happened to me a lot before we had to clean up my computer space (old machine), the problem for me was probably lack of memory to hold the big project, the sounds sounded like static and buzzing. Maybe scratch had to reduce the project size in order to make it fit into the computer space, even if it has to take away some of the project text and even graphics. This is just the disappearing text bug reason for me probably. Maybe not for everybody. Thanks for posting this, it helps. big_smile

zorket · 2010-10-18 17:38:33

The glitch just happend today.

Code:

I was working on a project in the paint editor, 
typing text, but then all the text IN THE PAINT EDITOR dissapeared.
 I realized it was the glitch, so I quickly went to file to quickly save 
the project. Then I did not have time to save, because the file dropdown
 text dissapeared. So I quickly closed the window, it showed a blank menu.
Went to the scratch webpage, and it worked slow.

Glitch desc.:

The glitch arrived at 1.3.1.
The glitch happens when squeak's memory runs slow. You can open squeak by using the shift-click methood.
This destroys ANY text that you can possibly see in your blind eye.
When It appears, It must me dealt with quickly.

Lost all the progress!

Last edited by zorket (2010-10-19 07:59:35)

cruelty247 · 2010-10-19 07:36:56

ummmmm i tried clickin the save picture thing but nothing happens o and my mouse is flashing?

mudkip27 · 2010-10-20 19:55:15

Save the project and close the window then open it in another window. Always works.

zorket · 2010-10-24 15:39:56

Something weird happened once.

Code:

I downloaded an EXTREMELY large script and it froze. This is because the script hugeness is pulling feathers out of squeak. Soon, a notice popped saying: Warning: Squeak's memory is really low! So I opened the task manager to close it, it worked.
Also, none of the text disappeared!

antimonyarsenide · 2010-10-29 20:21:56

zorket wrote:

The glitch just happend today.

Code:

I was working on a project in the paint editor, 
typing text, but then all the text IN THE PAINT EDITOR dissapeared.
 I realized it was the glitch, so I quickly went to file to quickly save 
the project. Then I did not have time to save, because the file dropdown
 text dissapeared. So I quickly closed the window, it showed a blank menu.
Went to the scratch webpage, and it worked slow.

Glitch desc.:

The glitch arrived at 1.3.1.
The glitch happens when squeak's memory runs slow. You can open squeak by using the shift-click methood.
This destroys ANY text that you can possibly see in your blind eye.
When It appears, It must me dealt with quickly.

Lost all the progress!

When the file dropdown menu disappears, you can just remember that "Save" is the third option tongue

That's why I usually use Ctrl+S instead. Except if you haven't saved that project yet, it shows a very glitchy version of the Save As menu DX

Also, the glitch happened once when I was uploading a project (the Census), and all the text disappeared from the online version. So I had to reupload.

rubiks_cube_guy238 · 2010-11-19 17:17:16

I want to point out that Scratch has a limited amount of memory. Your computer's memory has nothing to do with the glitch. Unless, of course, if Scratch's available memory is either equal to or less than your computer's memory, which I highly doubt.

yoshidude56 · 2010-11-25 14:56:26

ihaveamac wrote:
That's not the reason. I have 3GB of RAM and it still happens

Wait. Do you use 1.4? It doesn't happen to me either.

stickdude123 · 2010-11-27 13:58:21

JSO wrote:
Since Scratch 1.3, there has been a bug in Scratch that makes all text in Scratch suddenly dissappear - most of you know it as the dissappearing text bug.

Some think you lose all of your work when this glitch hits you, but there are some ways to get your project back

• When you see the first text dissapear, save it and close Scratch as soon as possile
Only when you made almost no changes, you should quit Scratch without saving.

• Now open your project again. You should see that all text in the Scratch GUI is there, but your texts in your costumes and backgrounds are still gone... If none of your backgrounds/costumes had text in it, you're done If not, continue...

• Open all of your costumes/backgrounds with text on it one by one in the paint editor by clicking the "edit" button next to the thumbnail. Then click ok without making any changes. All text should slowly reappear...

• Save (!) You don't want it to happen again...

Most of you know this already but some don't so I thought it would be useful to put this in a topic.

Be careful when you had this glitch with a certain project already. Probably something in the text is causing it and the chance of losing all of your work again is huge. So, you know, > http://www.mwstewart.co.uk/images/article/save_icon.gif <
As an alternative:
filo5 wrote:
There is a method already, but this one is simpler:

1. When Text Bug occurs, save your project and exit Scratch app.
2. Open Scratch again, and open your project. Text on sprites will be still invisible.
3. Don't do anything, just hit "Save" icon several (mostly 2) times to restore text.
________________________

How can I avoid this bug?
The Scratch team has not been able to track down the dissappearing text bug, that's why it's in there for 3 versions already. If you find a way to reproduce it, please post your exact situation on this thread: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=245324

Paddle2See wrote:
Another thing to know about this bug is that it seems to be related to memory usage. If you find that it happens to you a lot, consider shutting down other applications you may have running so that Scratch has more memory to work with. Maybe think about buying more RAM for your computer.
The lack of memory can be produced by both other applications and Scratch itself, so this bug is more likely to occur when working on bigger projects.

JSO

it works! thanks

Zichqec · 2010-12-21 19:37:28

Wow! thanks for the info! that just happened to me. the only thing is, when you mouse over the file, edit, share, or help buttons they dissapear so i had to click the icon( i normally don't) and then i remembered about this topic. thankfully i got all my text back. ^_^

Zichqec · 2010-12-21 19:54:02

it just happened again.. oh wait my jump drive is out of room! XD

KT-R-BOT___ · 2010-12-22 22:20:26

Yes, ive been repeating this for over 2 years. T_T

PieLabs · 2010-12-23 18:55:48

I've never once had this problom, about the disappearing text glitch, but I think it's good to know about it in case it does happen so I can react how I should if and when it does.

The_Dancing_Donut · 2010-12-28 08:08:40

I'd like to say that I think somehow your location can effect the glitch.

I've had it 11 times in all, and having to open and click OK to 28 costumes is time consuming.
Weird thing is, it has only happened when I've gone to work with my mom and we've been in the office. It happened 6 times the first time, then again 5 times last week - both times I've been in that same office.
It never happens anywhere else. Is it a coincidence or what?

BoltBait · 2011-01-05 16:07:57

This had never happened to me before, but I was editing a project and suddenly all the text was missing from all the blocks and variables!

I was able to get it back quickly and easily.

All I did was, using the menu, switch the language to German (anything other than English), then switch back to English. After that, everything was back to normal.

Oliroches · 2011-01-08 00:29:23

Well, this forum didn't really help me when it happened because i did not know. so my mom told me that to save, close, and open. Her advice is just like yours! except for mine all words go invisible. so I go on file, 4th one down and click. You type it's name, although not even seeing the letters and click SAVE. open and you're there.

Oliroches · 2011-01-08 00:36:02

Oliroches wrote:
Well, this forum didn't really help me when it happened because i did not know. so my mom told me that to save, close, and open. Her advice is just like yours! except for mine all words go invisible. so I go on file, 4th one down and click. You type it's name, although not even seeing the letters and click SAVE. open and you're there.

I hope this info helps for when all words go blank! wink

The_Dancing_Donut · 2011-01-24 15:56:45

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:
I'd like to say that I think somehow your location can effect the glitch.

I've had it 11 times in all, and having to open and click OK to 28 costumes is time consuming.
Weird thing is, it has only happened when I've gone to work with my mom and we've been in the office. It happened 6 times the first time, then again 5 times last week - both times I've been in that same office.
It never happens anywhere else. Is it a coincidence or what?

Please, any ideas?

scimonster · 2011-01-26 05:34:15

I do projects that are around 15 Mega-Bytes, but I have never been hit with this once.

TheCartoonFreak · 2011-01-27 20:30:41

Gyargh!!!!!!!!! It won't work. My mouse cursor dissapeared and I can't X out of Scratch! I had a really good project, too! :s Do you know a way to fix this?

ihaveamac · 2011-01-27 20:34:01

TheCartoonFreak wrote:
Gyargh!!!!!!!!! It won't work. My mouse cursor dissapeared and I can't X out of Scratch! I had a really good project, too! :s Do you know a way to fix this?

Do you mean your cursor is stuck in scratch and can't get to the X button? Or that pressing X does nothing?

scimonster · 2011-01-28 01:32:24

ihaveamac wrote:
TheCartoonFreak wrote:
Gyargh!!!!!!!!! It won't work. My mouse cursor dissapeared and I can't X out of Scratch! I had a really good project, too! :s Do you know a way to fix this?
Do you mean your cursor is stuck in scratch and can't get to the X button? Or that pressing X does nothing?

If it is stuck, just keep pushing it to the top even though you can't see it. Click on the X. It might take a minute for scratch to register, but you should be able to save and exit.

Scratch

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