Scratch

(If you don't want to know why I need this, then scroll down a little to just see the suggestion)

I finally felt like digging up scratch again and doing something with it, so I started to make a nice little gardening project with formulas for the climate and soil composition and such. Everything is perfect and the land builds completely like I want it too.

Now, I want to implement the plants in my project, and so the first thing I need to code is root construction. While that might sound easy, there is one thing in my standing in my way, preventing me from doing this.

<touching color[

This block may seem harmless and perfectly normal to use. In a way, it is. You use a little eyedropper tool to select a color and then this block tells you wether you the sprite is touching that color with either false or true. However, in my project, I need a way to have the root generator sprite distinguish between soil, rocks, and air. The only differences between those 3 things are thier colors, which are randomly generated based on fromulas and random numbers.

Seeing how there are 20 possible colors and 80 possible brightness levels for soil, if I were to use the eyedropper, I would need to put 1600 TOUCHING COLOR blocks in a single IF block. Doing that would most likely crash scratch, as I wold have to do this 3 times for soil and the 2 types of rocks.

//Suggestion:
What I really want is a different way to select color for this block, besides the eyedropper. Doing this would allow touching color blocks to change the color they need without use of the eyedropper, as you can only use the eyedropper outside of the game area, not in it. I was thinking of a hexidecimal "FF FF FF FF" (red, green, blue, and alpha). Doing it in hexidecimal would also clash less with normal numbers, preventing more errors in coding.

<touching color[ FFAA99EE ]>

I hope you at least consider this, as now my project must be re-coded to make everything just 1 color, which looks very bland.