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Greenatic · 2012-02-04 16:28:09

These blocks would allow many versatile applications, such as Hangman or Scrabble games. Random sentence generators would be able to use real words, and with a little work, they could use proper grammar. Mad Libs-style games could ensure that input was both appropiate and grammatically correct (since <[ ] is a word?> would return false for inappropiate words). The possibilities are endless...these blocks would be very helpful, and unlike many block suggestions, it's virtually impossible to create workarounds for them. Therefore, we really should have these blocks.

Supporters: (39)

Greenatic
mitchboy
ImagineIt
cartooncreator
RedRocker227
technoboy10
trinary
Chrischb
MrMonk999
Scimonster
logiblocs
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scratchisthebest
coolhogs
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gkc
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Mokat
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Last edited by Greenatic (2013-01-27 08:13:41)

mitchboy · 2012-02-04 16:43:57

Good idea, that would make a lot of games a lot easier to make. That could be hard to implement, though. I support.

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 16:58:14

mitchboy wrote:
Good idea, that would make a lot of games a lot easier to make. That could be hard to implement, though. I support.

Thanks! smile I don't think it will be too hard to implement, I'm sure there are plenty of dictionary APIs out there.

ImagineIt · 2012-02-04 17:09:51

I support, but how can we get all of the words?

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 17:11:18

ImagineIt wrote:
I support, but how can we get all of the words?

Thanks! smile

Greenatic wrote:
I don't think it will be too hard to implement, I'm sure there are plenty of dictionary APIs out there.

cartooncreator · 2012-02-04 17:11:32

I support! big_smile

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 17:12:24

cartooncreator wrote:
I support!

Thanks! smile

RedRocker227 · 2012-02-04 17:23:21

Definite support!

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 17:24:13

RedRocker227 wrote:
Definite support!

Thanks! smile

mitchboy · 2012-02-04 17:35:20

You forgot to include yourself as a supporter. hmm

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 20:28:12

mitchboy wrote:
You forgot to include yourself as a supporter.

You think I should? Alright then...

veggieman001 · 2012-02-04 20:40:35

I agree;; I bet a dictionary for Flash would be easy to find.

ProgramCAT · 2012-02-04 21:04:26

Are you sure though? The blocks could make your project extremely slow because of the search time it might need (the English language has tens of thousands of words).
You could also just use a list instead. Search for a list of words, save as a text file, and import.
Sentence generators also already exist/can be created easily. Just have lists labelled 'nouns', 'adjectives', 'prepositions', 'verbs' etc and use the randomization blocks.

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Greenatic · 2012-02-04 21:33:09

ProgramCAT wrote:
Are you sure though? The blocks could make your project extremely slow because of the search time it might need (the English language has tens of thousands of words).
You could also just use a list instead. Search for a list of words, save as a text file, and import.
Sentence generators also already exist/can be created easily. Just have lists labelled 'nouns', 'adjectives', 'prepositions', 'verbs' etc and use the randomization blocks.

Scratch slows things down, so that would take even longer.

Thanks to veggieman001! smile

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technoboy10 · 2012-02-04 22:16:41

That would be super handy. I support.

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 22:28:10

technoboy10 wrote:
That would be super handy. I support.

Thanks! smile

trinary · 2012-02-04 22:32:01

I agree, this would be very useful for some games and generators, so I support!

Greenatic · 2012-02-04 22:47:50

trinary wrote:
I agree, this would be very useful for some games and generators, so I support!

Thanks! smile

Chrischb · 2012-02-04 22:55:19

Support big_smile

MrMonk999 · 2012-02-04 23:29:39

Support! this wold be awesome if it got incorporated into 2.0

RedRocker227 · 2012-02-05 04:40:06

ProgramCAT wrote:
Are you sure though? The blocks could make your project extremely slow because of the search time it might need (the English language has tens of thousands of words).
You could also just use a list instead. Search for a list of words, save as a text file, and import.
Sentence generators also already exist/can be created easily. Just have lists labelled 'nouns', 'adjectives', 'prepositions', 'verbs' etc and use the randomization blocks.

It would be a right pain having to manually import all the words though ._.

scimonster · 2012-02-05 08:03:38

Sounds really cool. I'd like it if the ST decided to take the extra week to do these.

Paddle2See · 2012-02-05 09:14:05

Have you tried using the

<[list v] contains [some_word]>

block? It can do pretty much what you are asking...just load up a list of words.

That block is a sharp-ended true/false block by the way...it just shows as a rounded block in the ScratchBlocks.

And it's pretty easy to load up a list too...using the Import command. I made a list that had all the lines of Hamlet in it.

scimonster · 2012-02-05 10:00:48

Paddle2See wrote:
Have you tried using the
<[list v] contains [some_word]>
block? It can do pretty much what you are asking...just load up a list of words.

That block is a sharp-ended true/false block by the way...it just shows as a rounded block in the ScratchBlocks.

And it's pretty easy to load up a list too...using the Import command. I made a list that had all the lines of Hamlet in it.

LOL I think Greeanatic knows what shape that is. tongue

Greenatic · 2012-02-05 12:51:53

Paddle2See wrote:
Have you tried using the
<[list v] contains [some_word]>
block? It can do pretty much what you are asking...just load up a list of words.

That block is a sharp-ended true/false block by the way...it just shows as a rounded block in the ScratchBlocks.

And it's pretty easy to load up a list too...using the Import command. I made a list that had all the lines of Hamlet in it.

Yes, but remember how many words are in the English language--that would take up a lot, if not all, of our precious 10 MB. If we put a built-in dictionary in the player, or if Flash already has one, it would save a lot of project space.

Thanks to Chrischb, MrMonk999, and Scimonster! smile smile smile

Last edited by Greenatic (2012-02-05 12:53:59)

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