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MathWizz wrote:

Sperry wrote:

Morning everyone! How are we getting on?

Oh my gosh!!! nXIII posted. Shame having school when everyone else is off. Oh well. Have fun at school today nXIII!

I still don't know how to get my block to work though. I thought about using some sring ops so I'm currently seeing what I can do with it. I'll get back to you on that one.

I think we're going to run out of block ideas and then we won't be able to release another version of Panther!!! Oh No! 

See you later guys

I'm not off. 

Oh.. I'm sorry to hear that    . Going to school soon?

Sperry wrote:

MathWizz wrote:

Sperry wrote:

Morning everyone! How are we getting on?

Oh my gosh!!! nXIII posted. Shame having school when everyone else is off. Oh well. Have fun at school today nXIII!

I still don't know how to get my block to work though. I thought about using some sring ops so I'm currently seeing what I can do with it. I'll get back to you on that one.

I think we're going to run out of block ideas and then we won't be able to release another version of Panther!!! Oh No! 

See you later guys

I'm not off. 

Oh.. I'm sorry to hear that    . Going to school soon?

The good news is that I'm virtual schooled.    So I can pop in here every now and then.

MathWizz wrote:

Sperry wrote:

Wait!!!!!

I got an idea!
Because #rounded: rounds to the nearsest 1, what if we divide the number by what they want it rounded to, then pass it into rounded, then multiply by what they want it rounded to again, and presto!

Do ya think it'll work?
I'll go test my methods!

That's how I do it in regular Scratch, and I knew how to do it since you first suggested it. :p

Oh.. Why didn't you tell me? Did you want me work it out for myself?

MathWizz wrote:

The good news is that I'm virtual schooled.    So I can pop in here every now and then.

Ha, good thing that is!

markyparky56 wrote:

sparks wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

Uh... thats over complicating things...

explain?

Having to code what it gets off a webpage is annoying and inpractical.

well, the webpage is read in HTML, so you have all that code too.
to get the piece of text:

"$$$1.0Panther Developed$$$[txt59=testing the first Parser of the Panther site and news system.]
[txt18=hello and welcome!]"

which contains my parsering system and nothing else, appears like this:

        <!-- WEEBLY_START_CONTENT --><div id='weebly_page_content_container'><div  class="paragraph" style=" text-align: left; ">$$$1.0Panther Developed$$$[txt59=testing the first Parser of the Panther site and news system.]<br />[txt18=hello and welcome!]<br /></div>

... and that's line 54. so you already have to filter out the useful line, and get rid of the useless html text to either end to, leaving you with letters 124 - length of line -12 of line 54 of a total 226 lines of unhelpful text.

So you see that there is actually a HECK of a lot of filtering needed already.

sparks wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

sparks wrote:

explain?

Having to code what it gets off a webpage is annoying and inpractical.

well, the webpage is read in HTML, so you have all that code too.
to get the piece of text:

"$$$1.0Panther Developed$$$[txt59=testing the first Parser of the Panther site and news system.]
[txt18=hello and welcome!]"

which contains my parsering system and nothing else, appears like this:

        <!-- WEEBLY_START_CONTENT --><div id='weebly_page_content_container'><div  class="paragraph" style=" text-align: left; ">$$$1.0Panther Developed$$$[txt59=testing the first Parser of the Panther site and news system.]<br />[txt18=hello and welcome!]<br /></div>

... and that's line 54. so you already have to filter out the useful line, and get rid of the useless html text to either end to, leaving you with letters 124 - length of line -12 of line 54 of a total 226 lines of unhelpful text.

So you see that there is actually a HECK of a lot of filtering needed already.

So adding in BBcode, which is only found of forums, into that isn't gong to help.

well thank you! the idea is that we can distribute a Panther project that connects to the Panther site, and downloads news and suchlike to be loaded directly to the project, so people can see what's going on in a novel and interesting way. It will also be a great way for them to learn how to use the file blocks.

the idea of the "bb code" that markyparky isn't that fond of, is that seeing as we now have the colour blocks, we can store images as hexadecimal text and re-render it. so by using the bb style code, Panther can read the text off the web page and render a small thumbnail, display ordinary text or even display it as a speech bubble so that we have a colourful, interactive way of displaying data.

Just had a great idea, I'll email it to you once I'm done.

MathWizz wrote:

Where is the updated Panther? I can't find it.

Here

sparks:

How about, instead of a html page, we make our own coding and save it in a plain text file uploaded to the site, then we don't have to worry about the html code and skipping it.

How 'bout it?

I'm going to leave the images to you, I'm not sure how that will work. I'll do the parsing of the code, Ok?

Sperry wrote:

sparks:

How about, instead of a html page, we make our own coding and save it in a plain text file uploaded to the site, then we don't have to worry about the html code and skipping it.

How 'bout it?

I'm going to leave the images to you, I'm not sure how that will work. I'll do the parsing of the code, Ok?

well firstly, yes that's a great idea, but I didn't think the file blocks could read text files on a web page 

the images have a hexadecimal value for each pixil, the color blocks can convert it. it's not the best way to store it as even a small 50X50pixil image has to be stored as 15000 characters... so it's not going to be a major feature.

sparks wrote:

Sperry wrote:

sparks:

How about, instead of a html page, we make our own coding and save it in a plain text file uploaded to the site, then we don't have to worry about the html code and skipping it.

How 'bout it?

I'm going to leave the images to you, I'm not sure how that will work. I'll do the parsing of the code, Ok?

well firstly, yes that's a great idea, but I didn't think the file blocks could read text files on a web page 

the images have a hexadecimal value for each pixil, the color blocks can convert it. it's not the best way to store it as even a small 50X50pixil image has to be stored as 15000 characters... so it's not going to be a major feature.

I think you just stick to making a html de-coder... or find a dll to do itfor you, like the other parts of scratch which need a dll

sparks wrote:

Sperry wrote:

sparks:

How about, instead of a html page, we make our own coding and save it in a plain text file uploaded to the site, then we don't have to worry about the html code and skipping it.

How 'bout it?

I'm going to leave the images to you, I'm not sure how that will work. I'll do the parsing of the code, Ok?

well firstly, yes that's a great idea, but I didn't think the file blocks could read text files on a web page 

the images have a hexadecimal value for each pixil, the color blocks can convert it. it's not the best way to store it as even a small 50X50pixil image has to be stored as 15000 characters... so it's not going to be a major feature.

Ok, cool. I might try the text file - can I put a file on the website to test it?

Right, I uderstand the images now, I don't suggest putting them in until the project gets stable - it could make it laggy.