Scratch

In this topic, a Scratch member wondered if exporting to other formats was possible. Here is Andres' response:

andresmh wrote:

Remember that a Scratch project can be interactive. This means that you can get user input from the keyboard or the mouse. Videos do not have that capability. They are just played.

For that reason exporting into a video format seems very limiting. It could be useful for those Scratch projects that are only animations but a lot of projects go beyond that.

So I do not expect having an export into video (MOV, MPEG, etc) functionality any time soon.

On the other hand, I do see a point in being able to export as Flash (SWF) or EXE (Windows executable). Right now we are focusing on other features but we would welcome help from professional software developers that are interested in taking this challenge.

The red highlight is the most important part: it is possible the the Scratch team may develop a Flash converter. But currently that is probably not high on their to-do list.  But they are happy to look at developers' ideas and experiments with the Scratch source code, available here.

Last edited by cocoanut (2009-12-09 20:32:05)

fg123 wrote:

You can also convert it into EXE using Scratch2EXE:
http://chirp.scratchr.org/

Not a "real" compiler though--and I think you still need Scratch to run it, anyway. I could be wrong, though. And I think he wants Flash....

fg123 wrote:

Nope. Just compiles into exe and runs in presentation mode. I think it:
Compiles the project
"Adds" scratch.exe
Run it in presentation mode in the combined scratch.exe
When the user clicks exit, auto close the scratch.exe

Put them all together.

My point exactly.