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#1 2011-01-06 17:07:24
Displaying strings
I asked questions about this, and a Scratch Team member recommended I post it as a suggestion.
Scratch should provide a way to display strings (with or without a textbox background) with some basic options like resizing text. Expanding Scratch to support string output would be useful in many ways, from println()-like output to displaying dynamic messages to users. As a Computer Science teacher, having text output makes Scratch MUCH more appealing to use in the classroom, particularly for CS0 classes.
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#2 2011-01-06 23:18:12
- technoguyx
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Re: Displaying strings
This needs to be implemented - pretty much every decent language I've seen let's your print strings.
To simplify it since Scratch is meant to be for kids, maybe something like [write [] at x: () y: ()] would be good enough. Also maybe [set writing size to ()] and [set writing color to ()] like with the Pen.
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#3 2011-01-07 15:38:00
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Re: Displaying strings
technoguyx wrote:
This needs to be implemented - pretty much every decent language I've seen let's your print strings.
To simplify it since Scratch is meant to be for kids, maybe something like [write [] at x: () y: ()] would be good enough. Also maybe [set writing size to ()] and [set writing color to ()] like with the Pen.
Or maybe it would use the pen color...
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#4 2011-01-07 17:19:48
Re: Displaying strings
Ooh, every programming language lets you print - after all, how else will you do a Hello World thing?
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#5 2011-01-07 17:48:35
Re: Displaying strings
Have you seen how my Adventure game prints strings to the screen?
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/BoltBait/1516358
That might work for you... at least as a hack.
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