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#1 2010-07-07 20:56:27

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The anatomy of a Scratch block.

This is not written as or intended to be a tutorial. It is simply for the purpose of showing how Scratch blocks work. It may be used as anything the reader want's it to be, but it is not intended to be a tutorial.

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This post will explain the anatomy of a Scratch block. For the purposes of this, I will be using the http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/721/ifthenblock.png block.

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Every block begins with a method. This tells the block what to do. Without this, the block would do nothing at all. Here is an explanation of how the method works:

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6718/blockmethod.png

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But that isn't enough! For a block to actually show up, you need the blockspec for it. Here is an explanation of how the blockspec works:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4915/blockspec.png

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So that's the anatomy of a Scratch block.

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#2 2010-07-08 17:15:58

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Wait, if <> then <> isn't even a real block!

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#3 2010-07-08 19:17:09

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Aidan wrote:

Wait, if <> then <> isn't even a real block!

That's the point.

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#4 2010-07-08 21:41:41

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Aidan wrote:

Wait, if <> then <> isn't even a real block!

It doesn't matter. Most of the other scratch blocks are pretty complicated, so I made a simple one.

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#5 2010-07-15 13:41:00

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

I think this is a good thread so I'm going to BUMP it  tongue

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#6 2010-07-15 13:49:52

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

I think this is a good thread so I'm going to BUMP it  tongue

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#7 2010-07-15 14:11:53

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

I think this is a Extremely well documented description of the blockspec layout, I have linked it in my block library thread.

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#8 2010-07-15 14:27:57

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

sparks wrote:

I think this is a Extremely well documented description of the blockspec layout, I have linked it in my block library thread.

Thanks! I worked hard on this.

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#9 2010-07-15 16:02:47

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Mistake, when you look at the green bacgrond pic you spelt 'then' wrong  wink

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#10 2010-07-15 16:07:20

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Could you make that into a real block? It'd be nice to be able to set variables by just pulling them out of the palette  yikes

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#11 2010-07-15 17:28:49

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

johnnydean1 wrote:

Mistake, when you look at the green bacgrond pic you spelt 'then' wrong  wink

Shhhhh......  tongue  (Yeah, I noticed that, but I was too lazy to change it.)

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#12 2010-07-19 22:56:19

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

bump

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#13 2010-07-20 00:07:49

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Could you make that into a real block? It'd be nice to be able to set variables by just pulling them out of the palette  yikes

The blockspec and all the coding is in the screenshots, what more do you want?  tongue  (except you need to change "than" to "then" in the method coding)

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#14 2010-07-20 10:22:55

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

meowmeow55 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Could you make that into a real block? It'd be nice to be able to set variables by just pulling them out of the palette  yikes

The blockspec and all the coding is in the screenshots, what more do you want?  tongue  (except you need to change "than" to "then" in the method coding)

I fixed it.

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#15 2011-03-29 18:53:59

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

how do you add the blocks to scratch???

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#16 2011-03-30 03:43:20

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

gamer_6 wrote:

how do you add the blocks to scratch???

Add the block spec to "blockspecs" method after a word, e.g. 'operators' or 'operator' with the single-quotation marks and add the function to be called at the [something] ops. Control block and Motor block function go in the other ops. The [something] depends on the category you choose the block to go in.

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#17 2012-04-15 23:38:48

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Re: The anatomy of a Scratch block.

i figgered out there is blockspec and code... WERE DO YOU PUT THE CODE!!!
because i want more blocks not just boring blocks like|
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think 
i hate the blocks on scratch and i want more

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