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Very NICE ^_^

oh no i didn't want that minus sign to appear! the button looks like a line with to arrows on  the end of it. <----->

DrSuper wrote:

Thanks for sharing. I did not know about lock/unlock ;=< I am new to Scratch and reinvented it as follows (It may come in handy if you want a locked sprite that you can drag under certain conditions)

in a forever loop set x and y of the selected sprite to the x and y of the mouse
Inside this loop it keep the equality as long and the mouse is pressed (the sprite is getting dragged) as soon as the mouse is released stop the script.

One question for you. Do you know how we can get the shadow that sprites have in design at run time when they are selected?

All you have to do to make it drag correctly is to make it only execute when the mouse is touching the object you want to drag.

Here's a little trick I've been using. If you have a really long script and you want to move a block to a different part of it, instead of dragging it there a little bit at a time, just delete it, scroll to the right place, then click undo. It's like cut-and-paste.

You can also copy-and-paste (kind of). Duplicate a block then dump it into the list of blocks on the left (delete it, in other words). Again, go wherever you want it (including a different sprite) and click undo.

I found the list concatenation very useful - this allows you to construct a list, and then 'say' the whole list.  The only problem is that a space is inserted between every item in the list.

PetertheGeek wrote:

You can right click the stage and click "Grab Screen Region for New Sprite" and then select any region in the Scratch program and it will turn it into a new sprite. This is good for making tutorials if you want a picture of the scripts you used.

For making a picture without having to fill in all those little lines, drop a comment and size it to fit the scripts you want to copy and put them in. Easy!

The one dimensional dragging doesn't work on the java. Here's how to make it:
<when green flag clicked>
<forever if><< <touching[ mouse pointer  <and>  <mouse down?> >>
<set x to( <mouse x> )
<end>
[/blocks]

Last edited by billyedward (2009-07-29 17:44:50)

Wow!!!  That's cool.  Especially the 1.0.1 trick.

i didn't know about the lock/unlock thing either (that will help a lot).  and i have a question.  how do you have a "click screen to continue" and then not have the game go to the same place every time that you accidentally click the screen?

fullmoon how did you get your signature?

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/MrMunchkin/808516

heres one more thing u may wanna add is that if the programmer wants to make a sprite follow the mouse simply
when "gren flag clicked"
Forever
set sprite x to {mouse x}
set sprite y to {mouse y}

simple but some dont know that!
hope it helps

fullmoon wrote:

I think I'll make this into a project someday, but I thought I'd share some of the fruits of my Scratch addiction with the world. Here are some tips that I'm sure very few people know of; I found one of them today!

Quick Local>Global Variable Switch:

NOTE: Global variables are "for all sprites" and local (or private) variables are "for this sprite only" (using the phrases from the "make a variable" dialog).

Ever spend three hours on a project, making some single sprite use global variables, then decide that you want to add more sprites, but they all have to have their own? Sorry, can't help with that. However, you CAN go in the other direction. If you have a local variable you want to make global, just drag the scripts that contains blocks that deal with the locals you want to make global onto the Stage. It'll automatically create globals of the same name.


Say <Boolean> for 2 seconds

It's possible to put a boolean (triangle-cornered) block into "say" or "think" blocks. The sprite will say either "true" or "false".


One-Dimensional Dragging

For whatever reason, blocks seem to override the lock/unlock feature that lets you drag sprites. This means that if you want something to only be draggable up and down, just put code like this on the sprite and "unlock" it:

When Flag Clicked:
Forever:
Set x to 168
End Forever


Voodoo Fix for Sound Issue

On my admittedly ancient computer, Scratch often speeds up my sounds just for the heck of it. This really ticks me off. Today, while trying to fix Scratch and my microphone at the same time, I found that opening Sound Recorder in Windows, recording sounds for a few seconds, then closing it without saving causes Scratch to play sounds at normal speed (for a while, at least).


The Lost Video Support

In Scratch 1.0.1 (download here), you can shift-click on Extras to enable some experimental blocks in Sensing and Sound. They don't do anything, but the're fun to ponder.


I'll put any more on as I find them. Thanks for reading!

Awesome!Why do you call the sound bug 'Voodoo' though?