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If I could pursue this question one step further:  I don't know how to prevent every sprite that has been defined from showing  up with the "background" when the project is loaded (and before the flag is clicked to actually run the project).  I understand now, from what you wrote, that if I were to write a script that hid the sprites I didn't want at the start, start the project  by clicking on the flag, wait till things got hidden, then stop the project and do the share then I have a workaround.  But I would have thought there was a more fundamental way to hide sprites one didn't want to appear with the background at the outset.

And now another question:  Is there  way to stop the project for the upload, other than putting in a long time delay which would just mimic a halt?

Thanks for your reply.

roderj wrote:

To Paddle2See:

Never mind.  I inferred from your answer what I need to do. Apparently, if I just add a "hide" script to hide the unwanted sprite and run it manually after the project loads, remove the hide script I just used and then save the project I get what I want.  This doesn't leave any tracks of how it was done, which doesn't seem quite legitimate.  Oh well.

You actually don't need to add any scripts.  Just go to the sprite you want to hide and double-click on the Hide block in the pallet of blocks.  It doesn't have to be in the script area to run it.  I'm a little confused why you wouldn't just have a Hide block on the Green Flag script for sprites that you want to be hidden at the start of the project.