Scratch

dreamod wrote:

Download link here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b1uimly0wq83m3q
The application is based off of the Scratch VM for Mac.

it glitches on windows- importer dosent work!!!

Last edited by Squawkers13 (2012-04-27 18:55:39)

The newest image should be up soon, I just need to discuss the 'update' feature with sparks.

Ok, I was wondering if you you could upload a file (plain text) with necessary data to update the block importer. It would work like panther blocks, it reads the contents of the file on the http server. So, then on the click of a button, you could update it and it would file-in the contents of the url. It would require updating some times.

sparks wrote:

Sure, I think that would work fine! It should be possible to actually let you edit the file contents on the server using your Scratch username and password too!

cool, thanks. Just make a plain .txt file and upload it and then give me the url, please.

sparks wrote:

Okay, I've uploaded a txt file to this URL. I will have to look into how to let you edit the file, but that should work?

Or. Would you still be able to connect to and read a .php file? Then it would simply involve connecting it to a database for you to type into a text field.

Also - my lecturer today told me website_file_names_and_paths_should_always_be_like_this andNotLikeThis. Does it bother anyone that I've been using camel case for my page names? Now would be the time to change it...

iPersonallyLikeCamelCaseBetter.  itSavesSpaceAndLooksReallyAwesome.   

Dreamod. I've created your file editor for you. Only you and librarians can access that page to make a change. As usual, your Scratch password isn't stored 

http://blocks.scratchr.org/blockVersionEditor.php

Let me know if you can't log in and just so you know, for several reasons, I've moved the location of the version file from blocks.scratchr.org/blockFiles/blockVersion.txt to blocks.scratchr.org/blockVersion.txt. I hope that hasn't caused any inconvenience!

I don't know if you caught on, but we have severe SQL problems on the block site. Since this doesn't use SQL, it should be fine and always update the file, but after you get the success message after making a change, I advise just reading through the textbox on the editor page to make sure the changes have appeared!

Last edited by sparks (2012-05-03 07:49:23)

That's really odd... when you get a blank page, do you get it blank AFTER logging in?

I see it fine...

Your other account certainly won't work as it's not approved.


You're definetly trying to log in on this page?

Okay, that's really strange, considering it's never supposed to display nothing. It should at least give an error message.... I'll take another look at the code...

EDIT: Sigh, I found the problem. Sorry. It's cos you're not in the main librarian array and I forgot to include your name as an exception on the logged-in view of the page 

Last edited by sparks (2012-05-03 16:02:30)

Greenatic wrote:

What are we going to do about the SQL?  We need to get it fixed sometime...it only fails the connection, for me at least, when I view the webpage a second time.  It's never failed the first time I press the button.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it...   

Yeah, you've mentioned that. It doesn't work like that for anyone else, though, it seems. I think the multi-try system is our best bet.

I was imagining it should try 5 times. If it fails it prompts the user "Oops! Looks like there was an error when connection to our database!" with a "try again" button. This would try another five times and if it fails tells the user "Oh dear... It looks like we've temporarily lost connection to our database. Please try again late.".

I'm possibly thinking that (not with comments but with block submissions) if the connection has failed ten times, the user has the option to email us their block. It would then simply email my email account with the block code in it in a way that I can just copy and paste it into PHPMyAdmin to add it in for them.

Excellent! How's your latest patch coming along? 

It's been a lot bugger than you thought, huh? 

sparks wrote:

It's been a lot bugger than you thought, huh? 

well, I just have to make it perfect! But that won't be necessary soon, as I would just simply upload an update.