Scratch

Mokat · 2012-02-03 18:26:32

Okay. I was in a hurry to finish a project before I had to go to the dentist's office, so I was dragging blocks and painting new sprites very quickly. All of a sudden, Scratch froze up!!!!!! I couldn't drag any new blocks on, make any new costumes/sprites/backgrounds, or make any new variables-/lists! mad I don't know why this happened!! I tried exiting the Scratch application for about ten minutes. Then it was time for my dentist appointment so I turned off the computer. It took about 1 hour at the dentist office. When I got back and opened up the project again, I still couldn't change anything!!!! The project had alot of sprites and scripts. I was using variables to change backgrounds instead of

 when [space v] key pressed

blocks. In the project, I still cannot make any more changes to it. mad

What happened????? hmm

Greenatic · 2012-02-03 19:35:37

It ran out of memory. I hope you saved. sad

DigiTechs · 2012-02-08 17:29:54

Greenatic wrote:
It ran out of memory. I hope you saved.

I don't think he could.. But, has Squeak smalltalk thrown any errors up, like the out of memory error?

roijac · 2012-02-09 13:45:10

Os?

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Mokat · 2012-02-09 21:37:53

Greenatic wrote:
It ran out of memory. I hope you saved.

I did save; what makes it happen though?? hmm

Jonathanpb · 2012-02-09 23:27:34

Sometimes Scratch freezes up when editing very long scripts; were you handling large scripts? Scratch tends to give a warning message before it freezes in that situation though :S

Mokat · 2012-02-12 09:09:19

Jonathanpb wrote:
Sometimes Scratch freezes up when editing very long scripts; were you handling large scripts? Scratch tends to give a warning message before it freezes in that situation though :S

Was this a warning: "Warning: Memory low." Although, it wasn't really Scratch giving that message, it was my computer.

Greenatic · 2012-02-12 09:19:19

Mokat wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Sometimes Scratch freezes up when editing very long scripts; were you handling large scripts? Scratch tends to give a warning message before it freezes in that situation though :S
Was this a warning: "Warning: Memory low." Although, it wasn't really Scratch giving that message, it was my computer.

Yes, that's the warning we're talking about. If Scratch gave the error, it would be a pink box titled "Space is low" with options to Proceed, Abandon, and Debug--did you get that?

Mokat · 2012-02-13 20:24:34

Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Sometimes Scratch freezes up when editing very long scripts; were you handling large scripts? Scratch tends to give a warning message before it freezes in that situation though :S
Was this a warning: "Warning: Memory low." Although, it wasn't really Scratch giving that message, it was my computer.
Yes, that's the warning we're talking about. If Scratch gave the error, it would be a pink box titled "Space is low" with options to Proceed, Abandon, and Debug--did you get that?

That's the exact message I got!!! yikes

Greenatic · 2012-02-13 20:45:48

Mokat wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:
Was this a warning: "Warning: Memory low." Although, it wasn't really Scratch giving that message, it was my computer.
Yes, that's the warning we're talking about. If Scratch gave the error, it would be a pink box titled "Space is low" with options to Proceed, Abandon, and Debug--did you get that?
That's the exact message I got!!!

That means Scratch used up too much memory. There's no way (to my knowledge) to get your project back or unfreeze Scratch. You'll have to force-close the window, if you haven't already. In the future, try closing all your other programs when using projects like that, and if it still happens, use a faster computer.

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Mokat · 2012-02-13 20:50:07

Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
Yes, that's the warning we're talking about. If Scratch gave the error, it would be a pink box titled "Space is low" with options to Proceed, Abandon, and Debug--did you get that?
That's the exact message I got!!!
That means Scratch used up too much memory. There's no way (to my knowledge) to get your project back or unfreeze Scratch. You'll have to force-close the window, if you haven't already. In the future, try closing all your other programs when using projects like that, and if it still happens, use a faster computer.

Ooooooooh, I think the problem might have been that I had google translate, microsoft word, scratch (the program), scratch.mit.edu (the website), and iTunes open. Derp. roll

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Greenatic · 2012-02-13 20:53:51

Mokat wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:
That's the exact message I got!!!
That means Scratch used up too much memory. There's no way (to my knowledge) to get your project back or unfreeze Scratch. You'll have to force-close the window, if you haven't already. In the future, try closing all your other programs when using projects like that, and if it still happens, use a faster computer.
Ooooooooh, I think the problem might have been that I had google translate, microsoft word, scratch (the program), scratch.mit.edu (the website), and iTunes open. Derp.

Yeah, that might be it, especially if the Scratch website was viewing a project and/or iTunes was playing something.

Mokat · 2012-02-13 20:54:23

Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
That means Scratch used up too much memory. There's no way (to my knowledge) to get your project back or unfreeze Scratch. You'll have to force-close the window, if you haven't already. In the future, try closing all your other programs when using projects like that, and if it still happens, use a faster computer.
Ooooooooh, I think the problem might have been that I had google translate, microsoft word, scratch (the program), scratch.mit.edu (the website), and iTunes open. Derp.
Yeah, that might be it, especially if the Scratch website was viewing a project and/or iTunes was playing something.

iTunes was playing "moves like Jaggar" when it froze up. so that probably was it.

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Greenatic · 2012-02-13 21:21:28

Mokat wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
Mokat wrote:

Ooooooooh, I think the problem might have been that I had google translate, microsoft word, scratch (the program), scratch.mit.edu (the website), and iTunes open. Derp.
Yeah, that might be it, especially if the Scratch website was viewing a project and/or iTunes was playing something.
iTunes was playing "moves like Jaggar" when it froze up. so that probably was it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure iTunes playing music uses up a lot of RAM.

cheddargirl · 2012-02-13 21:33:35

Closed by request.

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Scratch froze up!! :(

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