Scratch

Marblypup wrote:

Thanks for the info, johnm, on how to add inputs to custom blocks.
I've just written a script that draws a Hilbert curve. It's a pity I can't share it.

If you make a project you like, you can use the "More" menu to save a copy on your local disk. While some things may change between now and the final release and you might need to update your scripts, there is a very good chance that any projects created with this version of Scratch will be openable with the release version.

For now, I've been using ".sb2" as the extension for my Scratch 2.0 projects to tell them apart from Scratch 1.x projects. I'm not sure what extension we'll end up using for the release version but if it's different, it's easy enough to rename your files.

You can also use the "More" menu to load a project from your local disk.

Squawkers13 wrote:

Why not a account verification block that forces you to use variables?

Hmm, interesting. Could you explain what an account verification block would do exactly?

I think that cloud data is great - but I can imagine someone using it for innapropiate reasons (recording Scratcher's private data).

sdg1 wrote:

It's great that you are thinking about a username reporting block  . We thought about it during our design process, and decided not to go with it, mainly for a couple of reasons.

One reason is privacy - with a username block, a Scratcher may be able to record every action that other Scratchers take on his project (for example, every click), and sometimes this can be done without the other Scratchers knowing that they are being recorded.

Another reason is that we do not want code that is specifically tailored for someone in the community - one could easily have a project that says something inappropriate for a specific user through a if block:

when gf clicked
if <(username) = [sdg1]>
  be mean
else
  act normal
end

Considering these possible drawbacks, we decided not to implement the username block, though we agree with you that username blocks will make things much easier for certain type of projects.

Couldn't the user be asked at the beginning of a project if they wished to log in to the game (have their username used?), and if not then set username to [ ] same as if the player isn't logged in or is playing offline? Then the player can decide if their actions may be logged.
    Regarding the second issue, this can be done even now - with the ask blocks. For example at the start if a game - ask choose a name. If letter 1 of answer is P, say something mean about names beginning with P. The username variable could be policed in the same way the issue I just mentioned would be already, with 0 tolerance.

As far as I see, I agree that this addition of a username fixed variable would be incredibly useful in creating a high score leader board with cloud data with the only potential issues either being easily sorted or already a potential issue.
   As BoltBait said, when it asks for your name to use a leader board with cloud data and someone writes an inappropriate word which now everyone sees on the leader board - who's fault is it when the project is taken down? If it sets itself to username with the players permission it can be policed in the same way usernames already are.

Last edited by Prestige (2012-05-18 07:15:29)

how do imake the custom blocks do something?

My favorite thing in the update is the cloning tool so please hurry up and let me use it :-)
Also the new make a block looks very cool. I usually use a real programming language called Python but because of this update it should bring me to start using scratch a lot more.

johnm wrote:

pent9 wrote:

This is really great, but somewhat dissapointing. There are still no hide/show list blocks, or hide/show mouse blocks. I don't need to hide the mouse, that would only be for replacing it with a different design, but hiding and showing lists means the world to me.

Lists now appear in the "hide varilable/show variable" blocks, so you can use those blocks to hide and show lists.

Yes, I know that, but as of right now they don't work. I could be doing something wrong, or the prototype could be glitchy.

beetle16 wrote:

You can get block inputs by typing one of the following things into the name of a new block:

%b - boolean input
%c - color input
%d - ??
%m - variable input
%n - number input
%s - text

Sadly you can't use them as there is no variable name for them.

Thanks! I was wondering how to do this!

when gf clicked
say [the new cloning blocks are pretty awesome.]

Last edited by Iamthetoaster (2012-05-18 16:11:25)

The video transparency is good.

If [Edge v]  touched go to [mouse-pointer v] 

Last edited by soniku3 (2012-05-19 04:16:42)

As soon as I clicked to [See inside] of johnm's Fractal Tree I got excited. When you [Make a Block] you create a machine stack. These new blocks support return from call. I immediately whipped out and eight block definition that draws a Heighway Dragon between any two point and more importantly to any depth. It uses no lists and no variables other than the parameters x1, y1, x2, y2, depth. I did similar projects in 1.4 but now the coding time is shorter, the code itself is smaller and easier to read, and the rendering is faster. While everyone else is complaining that you can't [Make a Block] global I'm cheering, "MIT finally gave us THE POWER!"

Last edited by axorion (2012-05-19 10:14:35)