Is there a place to submit a Scratch wish list?
My current list - Note that some of these would best be hidden in some fashion to maintain accessibility for younger kids (toggled on & off under “Extras" or some such menu).
MATH
• Trig functions (I use series; arctan converges so slowly . . .)
• Exponents
• Scientific notation (and associated displays)
SCRIPTING
• *Documentation for scripts - insert comment boxes between or possibly beside instructions.
• *A way to print out scripts (or is there one?)
• *A way to delete messages from the list (much like the variable delete).
• *A way to search for variables & messages - within a sprite or globally.
• *Text variables
Iideally (IMO), but not for little kids, subdivided into Return delimited lines of Comma (Period? - user defined?) delimited segments of space delimited words of characters. - i.e. also allow some array storage & access. CHR 3 OF WORD 8 OF SEG 2 OF LIN 5 OF Whatever; even two dimensions would be good.
• A Function to convert a word into a number and conversely (i.e. “-1.2e-3" ---> -0.0012) - allows above to store an array of numbers.
• Parameter passing and the ability to write Functions
• A CASE .... OF structure would be nice too.
* These (asterisked items) should even be there for kids IMO.
I’m attempting much of this thru kluges at the moment, e.g. broadcasting a “message" that is, in fact, a comment
Enough dreaming . . . for now . . .
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Opps, My mistake. I now see where this should have gone...
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The best comment workaround I have seen so far is
repeat 0
say "comment"
messages disappear automatically when there is no broadcast or when-I-receive block referring to them.
I think it would be good for messages and variables to be treated more nearly the same, but messages are currently better handled than variables (pulldown lists, automatic creation and deletion).
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