Scratch

multiplayer is in scratch 1.4

There is Elements, Jens' Smalltalk-designed Smalltalk editor, which works a lot like Scratch.
What would be nice is an implementation of Actionscript or a language that is designed to facilitate high-level graphic output (like Scratch) into a Scratch-like environment. Obviously there would have to be some form of library manager and a good help system. The problem is that a language like Java requires a good bit of work to get sprites to display on screen while Actionscript is closed-source and non-reflective (unlike Squeak Smalltalk; Jens' Elements was able to draw on Smalltalk's ability to see its own classes, which meant no rebuilding libraries), which means that it would be quite a pain to manually import all the classes and their methods for use in a development environment. Of course, the environment wouldn't necessarily have to execute the code, just write it.

Ideally, Scratch could be expanded to include functions with parameters and return values, real honest-to-goodness object-oriented programming, and maybe even simplified class creation support. This would throw the door open for just about everything else, like network communication and sprite duplication, things that in my opinion are hard to work with outside of OOP. Unfortunately I can't do any of these things, so we can only hope...

Last edited by fullmoon (2009-05-21 21:50:33)

I am working on a simplified programming enviroment. It's not scratch, but ruby(An amazing text-based completely object-oriented language) and has the same characteristics.

fullmoon wrote:

AlanProjects wrote:

I am working on a simplified programming enviroment. It's not scratch, but ruby(An amazing text-based completely object-oriented language) and has the same characteristics.

No way! Can we get some screenshots plz?

Soon.