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That would be a pretty good idea - and it's a whole lot simpler than Mesh. I support    Of course, you might have to rename it so as to not confuse it with the *current* Global lists 

This is a really good idea, but it also seems like it would be difficult to add this feature to Scratch programs.

Last edited by m71134 (2010-07-31 11:40:09)

This would be so great! Especially for things like interactive "learning" projects that you can teach things to. I have a project (which I haven't posted) that allows you to teach new words of different types to a very basic AI. The whole community could contribute with an idea like this. Dictionaries, high scores, a built-in bug reporting section in a game, etc. The possibilities are endless!

One idea to add: The creator of the project should be able to edit the global lists, but no one else.

Great Idea!

"Mesh" was originally removed because the scratch team thought that this feature would be to complicated and would confuse new users of the scratch program. Although, this feature is very similar to "shariables" of NetScratch (A Potential Multiplayer version of scratch). Although many loved this feature and the overall version of scratch it was scrapped for some reasons unknown.

So, although I like this idea and I would very much like for the scratch team to implement this into scratch I very much doubt they would do so.

Still, great thinking. It would stun me if a scratch modification program had this feature.

Although the site for NetScratch is down you can still see a archive version of the website here of you would like. 

Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20080113124916/http://web.media.mit.edu/~tstern/netscratch/index.html

Harakou wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Harakou wrote:

This would be so great! Especially for things like interactive "learning" projects that you can teach things to. I have a project (which I haven't posted) that allows you to teach new words of different types to a very basic AI. The whole community could contribute with an idea like this. Dictionaries, high scores, a built-in bug reporting section in a game, etc. The possibilities are endless!

One idea to add: The creator of the project should be able to edit the global lists, but no one else.

Ooh- dictionaries would be cool  .

Yeah, I mentioned that at teh bottomz of my post. I think that the creator should be able to decide if other people can edit the list though- otherwise, no dictionaries/bug reporters/etc.  . Also, it could be so that anyone can edit the list from offline, but the edit would not effect the online game.

That would work pretty well. Choosing who could edit the list would be fine, but not totally necessary. I don't know about anyone else, but if I was going to include a bug reporter in my game/make a dictionary, I would just have them add to the list via a script, not manually.

The thing with these global lists is that people could post mean things. So the creator of the project, along with moderators, should be allowed access to the global list(s), even online, so they could moderate them. (Maybe the creator could even select a group of people they trust to help moderate?)

...Or a 'flag item' feature

midnightleopard wrote:

how about global variables? or shariables

Sort of already possible with mesh. 

Last edited by Sunrise-Moon (2010-07-31 13:22:48)

Harakou wrote:

midnightleopard wrote:

how about global variables? or shariables

You could just create those with items in a global list.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

...Or a 'flag item' feature

That would be a great way! But how would it be implemented?

A block that says [flag item] and only the creator can get rid of it.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

Harakou wrote:

midnightleopard wrote:

how about global variables? or shariables

You could just create those with items in a global list.


That would be a great way! But how would it be implemented?

A block that says [flag item] and only the creator can get rid of it.

Creator, Scratch team, and mods could get rid of it...

I was thinking more of a flag button, just like how they have a plus button that allows you to add a new item to a list.

Yeah, but what if you didn't want the list showing in the project?

This idea is awesome, I think it should be set out like this:



Clicking the global icon would bring you to global set up, where you could select things like how long it keeps the data (For ever if you want) and things like that.

But would be a lot simpler.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Harakou wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Creator, Scratch team, and mods could get rid of it...

I was thinking more of a flag button, just like how they have a plus button that allows you to add a new item to a list.

Yeah, but what if you didn't want the list showing in the project?

A flag block 

Unfortunately, it would then be up to the creator of the project to implement it, although it would be useful. I know how I would implement it. What if, below the project, there would be a "Flag global list item" button, which would show all the global lists and their contents? Then you could select which one(s) to flag.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Harakou wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

A flag block 

Unfortunately, it would then be up to the creator of the project to implement it, although it would be useful. I know how I would implement it. What if, below the project, there would be a "Flag global list item" button, which would show all the global lists and their contents? Then you could select which one(s) to flag.

I'm not sure that you can have Java interact with a page like that...

Well, Scratch 2.0 will be in Flash 

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