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#1 2007-11-30 20:04:15

weirdosam
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Registered: 2007-06-02
Posts: 4

memory

i think in a new version we should be be able to have memory for scratch so if you accidently get out or have to leave.  also we could have rpgs not only that but think of all the possibilities. so please i no it would take work but boy it sure would be realy nice

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#2 2007-11-30 21:44:17

kevin_karplus
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Registered: 2007-04-27
Posts: 1000+

Re: memory

I'm not sure what you are requesting, weirdosam. Could you repeat the request, trying to be more clear?

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#3 2007-11-30 22:06:57

Canthiar
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Registered: 2007-05-16
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Re: memory

I believe weirdosam is making a request for a facility in Scratch to have persistent state.

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#4 2007-12-01 19:59:48

kevin_karplus
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Registered: 2007-04-27
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Re: memory

Is he asking for persistent state for the entire development system (so that when you start Scratch it tires to edit the same project at the same sprite as previously), or for persistent state in projects, which could be under user control (for example, for a high-score variable).

I'm not very fond of systems that try to remember the state of the whole session, since it is often very hard to start over with a clean slate if the program gets wedged.  Even programs that remember what directory you were last working in can be annoying if you aren't always working in the same directory.

A mechanism for persistent state for variables could be very useful, but figuring out where to store the state could get tricky, especially for something that has to work both in the squeak and the java-in-browser implementations.

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