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#1 2009-05-04 22:36:03
Tabs in Scratch
Most major internet browsers support "tabs"--little thingies that appear in the tab bar. From here you can click to navigate to other websites, while the previous one is still available to you in another tab. So why can't this feature be in Scratch? Say I have to projects running at one time. I, personally, hate using multiple windows for one program because (a) it's inconvenient (I don't like switching between windows), (b) it clogs up space on my task bar, and (c) some other random reasons which I don't feel like mentioning. This feature would be quite useful. Can this aspect be put in 1.5?
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The main purpose of this feature would be for copying and pasting between two projects, as Paddle2See suggested.
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I don't mean opening tabs in your web browser. I mean the actual Scratch application. Sorry if that's ambiguous. I can see how you'd get mixed up.
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Here's a GIMPed up screenshot (I'm not too good with it 
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#2 2009-05-05 00:29:40
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Re: Tabs in Scratch
SCRATCH uses an awful lot of memory space already, and even more when trying to run one project on my laptop. But if such an idea can be implemented without overloading the computer, I would love to see a feature like this if it is possible.
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#3 2009-05-05 05:50:17
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Re: Tabs in Scratch
I already use Tabs in my browser (IE7) to run different projects. I have a shortcut on my desktop that brings up the Scratch homepage...if I fire it off twice I get two tabs, each running Scratch. Maybe it was a setting somewhere in IE?
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#4 2009-05-05 16:59:41
Re: Tabs in Scratch
Paddle2See wrote:
I already use Tabs in my browser (IE7) to run different projects. I have a shortcut on my desktop that brings up the Scratch homepage...if I fire it off twice I get two tabs, each running Scratch. Maybe it was a setting somewhere in IE?
I think he means offline.
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#5 2009-05-05 22:04:19
Re: Tabs in Scratch
Paddle2See wrote:
I already use Tabs in my browser (IE7) to run different projects. I have a shortcut on my desktop that brings up the Scratch homepage...if I fire it off twice I get two tabs, each running Scratch. Maybe it was a setting somewhere in IE?
What I mean is, tabs in the actual Scratch application, not online. You know, so I can work on two projects at the same time without having to switch windows.
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#6 2009-05-05 22:05:26
Re: Tabs in Scratch
cheddargirl wrote:
SCRATCH uses an awful lot of memory space already, and even more when trying to run one project on my laptop. But if such an idea can be implemented without overloading the computer, I would love to see a feature like this if it is possible.
Oh, and Cheddargirl, Scratch is about 50 megabytes. What's a few more?
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#9 2009-05-06 05:45:16
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Re: Tabs in Scratch
cocoanut wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
I already use Tabs in my browser (IE7) to run different projects. I have a shortcut on my desktop that brings up the Scratch homepage...if I fire it off twice I get two tabs, each running Scratch. Maybe it was a setting somewhere in IE?
What I mean is, tabs in the actual Scratch application, not online. You know, so I can work on two projects at the same time without having to switch windows.
Oh...I see. Yeah, that would be handy. Particularly if you could do cut and paste of scripts between the two tabs.
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#10 2009-05-06 06:15:00
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Re: Tabs in Scratch
cocoanut wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
SCRATCH uses an awful lot of memory space already, and even more when trying to run one project on my laptop. But if such an idea can be implemented without overloading the computer, I would love to see a feature like this if it is possible.
Oh, and Cheddargirl, Scratch is about 50 megabytes. What's a few more?
On my laptop, the SCRATCH folder takes up about 145MB (about 120MB from the original download, the rest from the our other projects I'm working on), and when running, it requires 16 MB more memory (this is not when running a big project). It sounds like nothing, but considering the state which my laptop is in, running SCRATCH slows down my computer fairly significantly.
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#12 2009-05-06 20:42:13
Re: Tabs in Scratch
cheddargirl wrote:
cocoanut wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
SCRATCH uses an awful lot of memory space already, and even more when trying to run one project on my laptop. But if such an idea can be implemented without overloading the computer, I would love to see a feature like this if it is possible.
Oh, and Cheddargirl, Scratch is about 50 megabytes. What's a few more?
On my laptop, the SCRATCH folder takes up about 145MB (about 120MB from the original download, the rest from the our other projects I'm working on), and when running, it requires 16 MB more memory (this is not when running a big project). It sounds like nothing, but considering the state which my laptop is in, running SCRATCH slows down my computer fairly significantly.
Really? That's odd... I have a clean install of Scratch (I reinstalled Windows XP, so I would obviously have to reinstall Scratch), and when I look at the "Add or Remove Programs" thing, it said it was taking up 49.62 MB. I wonder...
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#13 2009-05-06 21:01:36
Re: Tabs in Scratch
cocoanut wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
cocoanut wrote:
Oh, and Cheddargirl, Scratch is about 50 megabytes. What's a few more?On my laptop, the SCRATCH folder takes up about 145MB (about 120MB from the original download, the rest from the our other projects I'm working on), and when running, it requires 16 MB more memory (this is not when running a big project). It sounds like nothing, but considering the state which my laptop is in, running SCRATCH slows down my computer fairly significantly.
Really? That's odd... I have a clean install of Scratch (I reinstalled Windows XP, so I would obviously have to reinstall Scratch), and when I look at the "Add or Remove Programs" thing, it said it was taking up 49.62 MB. I wonder...
But Memory and Space have almost nothing to do with each other. Memory is what stores the tempory stuff(icons, sounds) so it doesn't take as long to load. Space is how much space is on the hard drive.
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#14 2009-05-07 00:08:46
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Re: Tabs in Scratch
BWOG wrote:
cocoanut wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
On my laptop, the SCRATCH folder takes up about 145MB (about 120MB from the original download, the rest from the our other projects I'm working on), and when running, it requires 16 MB more memory (this is not when running a big project). It sounds like nothing, but considering the state which my laptop is in, running SCRATCH slows down my computer fairly significantly.Really? That's odd... I have a clean install of Scratch (I reinstalled Windows XP, so I would obviously have to reinstall Scratch), and when I look at the "Add or Remove Programs" thing, it said it was taking up 49.62 MB. I wonder...
But Memory and Space have almost nothing to do with each other. Memory is what stores the tempory stuff(icons, sounds) so it doesn't take as long to load. Space is how much space is on the hard drive.
True, memory and hard drive space have nothing to do with each other, but both can still affect how fast a computer, or, in this case, my laptop, runs. Laptops tend to run slower and require more time to boot up when more space on the hard drive is occupied (even more slowly if there's a ton of defragmented files). Add the multiple processes that run in the background plus the SCRATCH application and the more slower the computer runs.
If we can have the tabs option instead of having multiple SCRATCH applications run multiple times, I'm all for it.
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#16 2009-05-07 10:33:13
Re: Tabs in Scratch
Dibbo222 wrote:
yeh cutting and pasting scripts between two projects wud be awesome!
Big time!
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#18 2009-06-09 23:17:52
Re: Tabs in Scratch
Nah, I think it should stay dead.
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#19 2009-08-14 15:56:04
Re: Tabs in Scratch
Magnie wrote:
Nah, I think it should stay dead.
Stay dead? I never give up!
Anyone? Anyone else want to post their opinions? Please? With sugar on top?
Maybe we can put it in 1.5, as it sadly wasn't implemented in 1.4.
Let's work to keep this thread alive! Please! Post!
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#22 2009-10-08 09:50:11
Re: Tabs in Scratch
cocoanut wrote:
Please?
Nah, I don't think so. It uses WAY too much RAM at this point, I can only imagine what would happen to people's computers if there were multiple tabs open at once! My "minesweeper" project uses ~150,000 K of memory, which is over twice as much as Firefox is using, and it's the most memory-using application I have open - And that's a small project! Frankly, I think it would just slow things down too much.
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#24 2009-10-10 00:17:17
Re: Tabs in Scratch
frih wrote:
You can see the projects on a new tab, just right click and select Open In new Tab.
Frih, what I mean is in the actual APPLICATION (scratch.exe, scratch.app, whatever you call it) have tabs. Like, so you can MAKE two projects at the same time. I know, it's kind of unclear. I can see how you'd mess that up.
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