Scratch

Jens wrote:

nXIII wrote:

I can work on making the watchers update only when their values change (with a maximum refresh rate)

they're supposed to already do that (don't update unless their values change). Aren't they?

Yes, but they could update immediately when their value is changed if they were notified of the change

Jens wrote:

. Wait, twice per second that's faster than my wristwatch 

the stopwatch on my watch has milliseconds

I just found this post:

fanofcena wrote:

BYOB is always 1 step ahead of scratch 

scratch 1.4 - byob 2.0
scratch 2.0 - Byob 3.0

with all the cool new features BYOB Will soon become a pros language for experimentisation

Now, it's 2 steps ahead 

Do you guys think I should ask the mods to change the title of this thread to "Snap! - Discussion Thread"? Or "BYOB 3 / Snap! Discussion Thread"?

Lucario621 wrote:

Do you guys think I should ask the mods to change the title of this thread to "Snap! - Discussion Thread"? Or "BYOB 3 / Snap! Discussion Thread"?

is snap the  same as BYOB? if so sure.

bharvey wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

Do you guys think I should ask the mods to change the title of this thread to "Snap! - Discussion Thread"? Or "BYOB 3 / Snap! Discussion Thread"?

Actually we're thinking that when we have an official beta release we'll start a new thread, so people who are just learning about it don't have to wade through a bazillion old messages.

OK  . And of course, you can have the honors of starting that thread  .

shadow_7283 wrote:

I don't think you have to ask moderators to change the title of a thread. I thought it was as simple as clicking edit on the original post.

EDIT: Oops, I guess not.

You can only edit the title within the first 10 minutes of posting the thread. 

dianoia wrote:

Hi, I have the following problem (BYOB 3.1.1):
I use variables on the screen to realize a dynamic text output function (presenting the content of the variables in the "large readout" mode). But if I save my project some variables will reset: they are in the  "normalreadout" mode an on an other position I gave them befor saving. Is there any way to set the position of shown variables via script? Or what else can I do to force the variables to their right screen position.
Thanks for any help!
Jens

This is a problem in Scratch, and it seems it carried into BYOB. Just save the project with the variables set the right way, and showing.

Look, something about BYOB3! XD

dianoia wrote:

Is there an import/export function in the prealpha?

Not yet.  Stay tuned.

Lucario621 wrote:

I was just google searching BYOB for the fun of it, and I was surprised to find that there is a wikipedia article on BYOB.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out.  It's pretty recent.  The person who wrote it is also the one who told me I should send BYOB to CNet download.com.

roijac wrote:

* MOD, TRUE and FALSE reporter blocks
* AND, OR, NOT reporter blocks
* BROADCAST AND WAIT command block

Nobody seems to have noticed the even more important previous change, in which plus signs for modification were added to custom block prototypes.  Right now they're a subtle grey-on-grey; too subtle, I guess, since nobody noticed!  Maybe, Jens, an orange plus but no circle around it would be subtle enough but not too subtle?

(The original idea about the orange circles was that they look like the orange variable blocks that they're used to add.  Maybe /that/ was too subtle?)

roijac wrote:

do you think it's more important? oh well ^^

Well, the primitive blocks are mostly trivial to implement (the exceptions are the ones like GLIDE that interact with thread scheduling); it's just a matter of getting around to them.  The plus-sign thing is important to me because it's a new UI experiment; unlike the old ones that came in pairs, these are single plus signs that you use by aiming between words, avoiding all that shifting around as you mis-aim slightly in the old UI.