Scratch

Scratch Patches by nXIII
These little guys can help you customize and improve your own version of Scratch. The best part: none involve new blocks, so the projects you create will be no different that normal Scratch projects.
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Notes

- these patches are not for use in mods; they are exclusively for customizing the Scratch application itself
- please post suggestions and/or bugs and glitches
- thanks to ScratchReallyROCKS, Mac keyboard shortcuts are now available

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The Patcher

Installing the patcher is the hardest (but not very hard) thing you must do in order to install patches. Simply follow these instructions:
Step 1: Open Scratch
Step 2: Press and hold the "shift" key while clicking the loop of the "R" in the Scratch logo
Step 3: Select "turn fill-screen off" from the popup menu which shows up
Not showing up? Make sure you're clicking inside the loop of the "R"; the "logo" referred to is the one in the top-left corner.
Step 4: Click anywhere in the "white space" which shows up at the bottom and right sides of the window
Step 5: Select "open..." from the popup menu
Step 6: Select "workspace" from the subsequent popup menu
Step 7: Copy the following text and paste it into the textbox-like window  with (Windows) Alt+V or (Mac) Command+V, or by clicking the "-" button above the scrollbar (appears when the mouse is over the "workspace" window) and selecting "paste (v)"

'From MIT Squeak 0.9.4 (June 1, 2003) [No updates present.] on 18 June 2010 at 5:06:17 pm'!

!ScratchFileChooserDialog methodsFor: 'initialization'!
createPatchFileChooserFor: t1
    scratchFrame _ nil.
    readingScratchFile _ true.
    list _ ScratchFilePicker new extensions: #(#patch ).
    self removeAllMorphs.
    bottomSpacer delete.
    bottomSpacer _ nil.
    mainColumn addMorphBack: list.
    self title: 'Add Patch'.
    list scratchInfoClient: nil.
    mainColumn addMorphBack: (Morph new extent: 5 @ 9;
         color: Color transparent);
     addMorphBack: newTitleBin.
    fileInfoColumn addMorphBack: buttonRow.
    self addMorphBack: shortcutColumn;
     addMorphBack: mainColumn;
     addMorphBack: fileInfoColumn! !


!ScratchFrameMorph methodsFor: 'menu/button actions'!
addPatch
    | t1 t2 t3 t4 |
    t1 _ ScratchFileChooserDialog new createPatchFileChooserFor: self;
             type: #patch.
    t2 _ t1 getUserResponse.
    t2 = #cancelled ifTrue: [^ self].
    t3 _ (FileDirectory forFileName: t2)
                oldFileNamed: t2.
    t4 _ t3 contentsOfEntireFile.
    (ReadWriteStream
        on: t4
        from: 1
        to: t4 size) fileIn! !

!ScratchFrameMorph methodsFor: 'menu/button actions'!
fileMenu: t1
    | t2 |
    t2 _ CustomMenu new.
    t2 add: 'New' action: #newScratchProject.
    t2 add: 'Open' action: #openScratchProject.
    t2 add: 'Save' action: #saveScratchProjectNoDialog.
    t2 add: 'Save As' action: #saveScratchProject.
    t2 addLine.
    t2 add: 'Import Project' action: #importScratchProject.
    t2 add: 'Export Sprite' action: #exportSprite.
    t2 addLine.
    t2 add: 'Add Patch' action: #addPatch.
    t2 addLine.
    t2 add: 'Project Notes' action: #editNotes.
    Sensor shiftPressed
        ifTrue:
            [t2 addLine.
            t2 add: 'Write Project Summary' action: #writeSummaryFile.
            t2 add: 'Write Multiple Project Summaries' action: #writeMultipleSummaries].
    t2 addLine.
    t2 add: 'Quit' action: #quitScratch.
    t2 localize.
    #(2 4 5 6 7 8 ) do: [:t3 | t2 labels at: t3 put: ((t2 labels at: t3)
                copyFrom: 1 to: (t2 labels at: t3) size - 1)
                , ScratchTranslator ellipsesSuffix].
    t2 invokeOn: self at: t1 bottomLeft + (0 @ 10)! !

Step 8: Select all the text by click-and-drag or by pressing (Windows) Alt+A or (Mac) Command+A
Step 9: File in the selection by right-clicking (Mac option+click) the selection and clicking "more..." then "file it in"
Step 10: Shift-click the loop of the "R" in the Scratch logo again and select "save image for end-user" then select "yes" when prompted. Scratch should close, and when restarted you will see a new option in the file menu: "Add Patch..."

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Installing a Patch

Once you have installed the patcher, simply select "Add Patch" from the file menu, navigate to the file (ends with .patch) and select "OK". The patch will be installed and can be used immediately.

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Available Patches
note: make sure you have installed the patcher before downloading and installing any of these patches

Feedback Enhancements
This patch modifies Scratch's "feedback" methods for dropping and deleting blocks and comments. Features:
- Colored reporter block drop feedback - for example a variable block has an orange-tinted feedback
- Shadowed command block feedback - instead of a line to indicate where blocks will go, you get a nice little shadow of the blocks
- Shaded comment/deletion feedback - the feedback for comments and reporters now look like those for reporters
Download

Deletion Fixes
This patch makes deletion of embedded command blocks possible, as well as fixing Scratch's deletion of reporters - if they have embedded blocks, the embedded blocks will be kept in the editor. Features:
- Updated "cut" tool for blocks
- All blocks now have a delete menu item in their context menu
Download

More coming soon!
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Last edited by nXIII (2012-08-26 23:19:00)