Scratch

Wooohoo! Update!!
Yeah, they look really nice! But a question, what are the dots by the sprites? In the upper right-hand corner, there are some buttons that look like + signs.

Last edited by QuizMaster (2012-02-16 10:26:18)

QuizMaster wrote:

Wooohoo! Update!!
Yeah, they look really nice! But a question, what are the dots by the sprites? In the upper right-hand corner, there are some buttons that look like + signs.

Ah, you mean in the backpack area of the editor? Those are little "x"s you use to delete something from your backpack.

This looks very nice! 

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

This looks very nice! 

Awesome! Glad you like it.    We got some outside design consultants to help us with the design / look and feel. I think they've done nice work so far.

stevetheipad wrote:

Wow, I'm very impressed, It looks very clean and simple!

Will commenting look the same, and what will the credits page look like?

Commenting will be different, as a way of fixing the problems with Scratch's current commenting system. As you probably noticed, the current comment structure can create a lot of confusion. For example:

ScratchCat
Time 0
Do you like bunnies?

     Gobo
     Time 3
     I love them! 

     Gobo
     Time 1
     I hate them. 

             ScratchCat
             Time 2
             Do you like kittens?

In this comment string, Gobo hates bunnies, but because of the positioning, it kind of looks like she's saying she loves them (at least at a glance - you can tell what's really happening if you look closely at the timestamps, but not everyone will). That's because she can't reply to the 3rd comment deep (a reply to a reply), so she does what many Scratchers do - goes back to the first comment and replies. That way she knows Scratch cat will get notified that she has replied.

In Scratch 2.0, we're thinking we're gonna use the @soAndSo notation that Twitter uses. So the same conversation will look like this:

ScratchCat
Time 0
Do you like Bunnies?

     Gobo
     Time 1
     @ScratchCat I hate them. 

     ScratchCat
     Time 2
     @gobo Do you like Kittens?

     Gobo
     Time 3
     @ScratchCat I love them! 


That way it's easier to understand the proper order of things, and who is responding to who. Note that you won't have to type @soandso - it'll just get added based on whose comment you click "Reply" on.

I love the "backpack" idea! Hmm...I think little kids like my sister and brother would prefer the word "backpack" over "clipboard" and older people would rather have "clipboard". Maybe you could make an option where you get to choose the name of your inventory?

Sweet! Looks a lot cleaner!

Lightnin wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Yep, I'm pretty sure it's in there. Although I haven't really tried it out yet (the paint editor is still under heavy development).

I mean of the stage

Ah -  yeah, the resizers are (currently) in the top toolbar. (Little Magnifying glasses with + an -)

Oh, that's awesome 

stevetheipad wrote:

Will remixes still show on a remixed projects, if the original project was deleted?

The section called "Remixes" on the project page will contain only "children" remixes of the project shown.  Right now it's just empty because we haven't implemented it yet. 

littlekitty5 wrote:

I love the "backpack" idea! Hmm...I think little kids like my sister and brother would prefer the word "backpack" over "clipboard" and older people would rather have "clipboard". Maybe you could make an option where you get to choose the name of your inventory?

I suggested this and I don't know if anyone saw it. I thought it might help your naming problem. :3

veggieman001 wrote:

Quick relatively unrelated question;; what's this?

:?

veggieman001 wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Quick relatively unrelated question;; what's this?

:?

Just some thing I found that appears to be an unused bug tracker for 2.0 

Hmmmmm....

Thee secret place of bugs! :p

Last edited by CheeseMunchy (2012-02-16 11:58:10)