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ScratchR's can we get TegansPoppy's PDF file on to the support web pages?

Thanks

There are some fun ones too.
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That is about 1/3 of what I can do. On a Mac, show character palette and start clicking. On windows, copy them from here.

archmage wrote:

Awesome list! I am saving this to a word file!

Why not just save it to a .txt (notepad) instead if the larger .doc (Word document)? In Word, it saves the font, color, external images, etc. even if there are none, which can multiply the amount of space it takes up. Notepad just saves the text and extension.

TegansPoppy - thanks for putting my tip in your PDF 

i have no idea what you mean. i mean, 

explain more cause i don't really understand

yes these are great

benballcv wrote:

Help - I have been using Scratch in ICT lessons in the UK and as we research projects created by others they are using blocks that are not in our download. How do you download/create new blocks?

You can't, currently.  What blocks are you seeing?  They may be blocks that were obsoleted (if that is a verb) such as the Comment Block that was introduced in 1.2 beta but didn't make it to production.  Or the Abs block that was made obsolete by 1.2 when that function was added to the list of functions in the drop down list.

Anyone know a good way to incorporate a high scores screen into a game

Sounds like a nice prank:

The students probably rotated the sprite to face up or down instead of the default left / right direction. You'll notice this when you have a look at the blue line coming out of the sprite-symbol at the top of the Scratch-screen indicating the current direction: If that line goes vertically, the sprite's direction has been changed.

If they were clever they might have rotated the sprite's costume by 90 degrees in the paint editor first, and afterwards rotated the whole sprite back by -90 degrees using the direction-handle in the sprite-area. That way the sprite will not appear to be rotated and still move "sideways". If they indeed managed to come up with such a hack on their own you should be duly impressed...

[I'm going to leave this in the "Scratch Secrets" thread, since it's not exactly Troubleshooting either...]

DrSuper wrote:

I would like to write an IF statement with a long list of ORed values e.g
If Something = 1 or 2 or ...or 1023
Is there an easy way of doing this? I have tried nested OR statements  but this becomes very slow after a few ORs and scrolling to the right is no fun. I nearly a list of hundred values each time.

This isn't exactly a "Scratch Secret", so perhaps the admins can move this thread. But I did want to reply, as this is a basic programming task that can be handled in several ways. Unless you are planning on creating 1023 possible outcomes, the obvious way to catch this for action is to test against a range. For example:

<if><< <( x <>> 0  )> <and> <(  x <<> 1023 )>  >>

That is,

if( x > 0 AND x < 1023 ){
  // do stuff
}

phiggins wrote:

How do you programmatically clear the stage

nobody really obviously wrote:

make a blank costume and switch to that.