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If <> then <> else <> being the same as

[block]<if>
<else>[/block]

is a better reason.

Also, "when stop clicked" could be used to do 1 quick thing before it ends the project. For example, if it's a virtual ChatBot thing, this might be useful:
(When Stop Clicked]
[Say "Bye!"]

Or something like that.

Last edited by keikij (2010-06-27 03:59:01)

"Go to [url]" - Virus and Adult stuff alert!

"When Stop Clicked" - Stop stops all scripts. How will this work differently?

"Repeat for (secs) seconds" - Self-explanatory.

"Hide speech bubble" - Use "Say [(no input)]".

"Point away from edge" - The sprite will just face another edge.

"If <> then <> else <>" - What the heck is this supposed to mean?

"Color touching [sprite]" - Use "Touching color [color]".

1. Virus and adult stuff alert? Seriously... That's not a good enough reason to stop what could be a great feature. If you say this, why not stop all links?

2. It starts new scripts. I agree with this, stop all is supposed to stop the program.

3. I don't get how it's self explanatory

4. Makes sense.

5. Agreed.

6. Agreed.

7. No, that won't work. Sprites can be more than one color, what if a color is also used in another sprite? You'd have to have very weird looking graphics for this one to make sense.

The last block lets you choose the sprite and color instead of a color and the sprite it's in. But it can be done with variables.

"Go to [url]" - Virus and Adult stuff alert!

You could make it so that it can only go to pages within the Scratch website... Although that might sort of defeat the purpose of the block.

"When Stop Clicked" - Stop stops all scripts. How will this work differently?

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. The "Stop" button is supposed to stop all of the scripts. When somebody presses that button, they expect it to stop - wouldn't it kind of defeat the purpose of the stop sign?

"Repeat for (secs) seconds" - Self-explanatory.

I think this should be added. It would make a great addition    When the time's up, why shouldn't it just finish its loop?

"Hide speech bubble" - Use "Say [(no input)]".

Yes, you can already do that - two blocks that say the same thing? Kind of pointless.

"Point away from edge" - The sprite will just face another edge.

I've never heard this suggestion... And frankly, it makes no sense. The edges are surrounding you on all angles.

"If <> then <> else <>" - What the heck is this supposed to mean?

It's basically another way to write if <> else, there's just another word in there. There should still only be two booleans. I don't see the point, though.

"Color touching [sprite]" - Use "Touching color [color]".

Yep. Pointless.

Jonathanpb wrote:

Here on the Scratch Forums and website, we can choose if we click on the links or not. In the Scratch project, the website will automatically appear without our choice.

If there ever was any sort of URL connectivity in Scratch...*fingers crossed*...then I'm sure the Scratch team would take plenty of precautions in how it worked. For instance, the Scratch player could include a Flash-style dialog box:



Instead of warning about camera access, it would ask something like this:

The project is trying to access the URL:
http://windows-security-panel-2010.info/get?m=not_a_virus

[ ] remember my choice
(Allow) (Deny) (Report)

That would give the user the same choice they have when clicking other links.

I see what the (if <> then [] else []) block does now... Thanks fullmoon.

ihaveamac wrote:

The if thing means

If <BOOL> then <BOOL> else <BOOL>

Well, you can put any value into the second two slots.

The-Whiz wrote:

How would that work then?

if <mouse down> then <touching mouse-pointer> else <y position=0>

It doesn't seem like that would serve any purpose... 

Actually it might be helpful for choosing which boolean you want to test...

if < if <level = 1> then <touching [level 1 enemy] ?> else <touching [level 2 enemy] ?>>>:
  change health by -1
end

...however it's still quite useless if it allows only booleans.

No, because if the first is true and the second is false it would report false, the and/or thing would report the third boolean.

Unless you add a variable that will not work because the <if<> then<> else<>> block is a boolean as well.

Last edited by climber59 (2010-06-28 07:07:46)

ihaveamac wrote:

All these ideas were taken from Block idea projects for Scratch 2.0.
If you can explain why and how a block can be added, and all the others agree, I'll remove it from the list.

"Go to [url]" - Virus and Adult stuff alert!

"When Stop Clicked" - Stop stops all scripts. How will this work differently?

"Repeat for (secs) seconds" - Self-explanatory.

"Hide speech bubble" - Use "Say [(no input)]".

"Point away from edge" - The sprite will just face another edge.

"If <> then <> else <>" - What the heck is this supposed to mean?

"Color touching [sprite]" - Use "Touching color [color]".

Go to URL - Yes I agree, this is a bad idea.
When Stop Clicked - I think they meant something like the Stop Scripts block, but one that affects other scripts.
Repeat for () seconds - This could be done with variables.
Hide Speech Bubble - I don't know what a speech bubble is.
Point away from edge - It might've been point away from mouse.
If (0 then (0 else () - This is just the If and Else block...
Color Touching [sprite] - Could be useful if you have some sprites that are the same colors.

OK, that would work, and we useful... Although you can work around that with complicated equasions...