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Couple of questions, can we have a time Sensor Value and a Username Sensor Value, just makes chatrooms so much easier

And, When you export your project will it be an option to allow people to see the code?

Tbtemplex97 wrote:

Couple of questions, can we have a time Sensor Value and a Username Sensor Value, just makes chatrooms so much easier

And, When you export your project will it be an option to allow people to see the code?

For the username sensor vaue, just make a variable derp

1) What will the music file size be on Scratch 2? I'm worried that if everything is online than there will be no compressor and there won't be enough music space.
2) An actual suggestion: Is there are a way you could speed up the creator? I did a test with Panther 1.0, and although it is a glitchy mod it can make just over 300 clones before it slows down. I did the same test with Scratch 2.0 on google chrome and found it could only make around 60 before it started to lag. I really want to make a city game with clones, as my last one failed without clones, but with a 60 clone limit before it lags I don't think it will be possible.

You can no longer put numeric values into blocks such as

switch to costume [costume1 v]

Last edited by SeptimusHeap (2012-05-19 10:33:39)

Foxgirlgamer wrote:

Well I'm super-concerned about people abusing the 'backpack' to steal other's artwork.
I know y'all think that remixing is fine and dandy but honestly this wouldn't be remixing. Just stealing.

I don't think artwork intrinsically has more worth than someone's coding. People put plenty of effort into both. Though I suppose it is true that you can be much more original in artwork...Eh, I see your point I guess. As always an option to not allow remixing would be nice but perhaps one focused on imagery would work and not limit people in what they create. Runs into the problem with share being an important part of scratch, though.

Besides which people can just download and take images at the moment - nothing changes; just continue to ask people not to remix without your permission or something.

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My concern:

Disappearing blocks!

When I was in the editor the Delete clone and clone startup blocks disappeared; not sure why.

Last edited by Smozzick (2012-05-19 13:28:46)

Has anyone else had the problem that the pen tool doesn't work at all?

The list of galleries is outdated and includes deleted galleries.

TorbyFork234 wrote:

AtomicBawm3 wrote:

Has anyone else had the problem that the pen tool doesn't work at all?

Works for me

Ok...did you try it with Scratch also accessing the camera?

This may not go here, but there are now 115 identical (rather strange) comments on Lucario621's Scratch Chat on the 2.0 alpha. They were posted by 'scratchday12.' Were they intentional?

comp09, I know it is frustrating not to get even a simple response from the Scratch Team on each bug reported, be patient.  I'm sure they are reading this thread and will address each concern in time.

technoboy10 wrote:

This may not go here, but there are now 115 identical (rather strange) comments on Lucario621's Scratch Chat on the 2.0 alpha. They were posted by 'scratchday12.' Were they intentional?

It was an account that was open to anyone during scratchday, so that was everyone at scratchday 

Scratch comments come out as obsolete blocks 

I'm concerned about how "unnatural" the creation of clones is.

I created a clone version of the very neat breakout project by PeterC (http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/PeterC/8767). In this version, each brick is a clone of the "brick" sprite.

If you want, you can download my version with clones from http://www.sitibs.com/files/stefano/bre …  clones.sb.

What I don't like of my version with clones? two things:

- PROBLEM 1: first of all, the fact that having to identify clones in some way (for example to position each of them in their specific position) I had to create a "brick number" global variable. But, as the script that creates clones (you can find it in the Stage) keeps going on immediately after the creation of each clone, I cannot trust the value of the global variable: it is updated before its value is used by the clone. Solutions to this problem can be i) add a "wait" block right after each "create clone" block or ii) add a further global "semaphore" variable to make the clone creation script wait until the value of the "brick number" variable has been used. SOLUTION: a cleaner solution would be having a "clone number" reporter in the Control category. OBJECTION: the "clone number" block won't have any clear value for sprites that are not clones. ANSWER: the same is true of the "delete this clone" block. This block indeed has not clear sense for sprites that are not clones.

- PROBLEM 2: to make the "clone startup" script of the brick sprite as "homogeneous" as possible, I had to hide the "brick sprite", in order to use only its clones. This is counterintuitive to me. The brick sprite should be just one of the bricks in the project. In this way it is only a "mold" for its clones. Weird. I noticed the same strategy in the very nice FireWord project by Illusionist. So I guess every miningful project that uses clones must hide the original sprite. This is contrary to my idea of programming and automation. If in a programming language a programming construct must be used "every time" that another construct is used, the two constructs should be merged in a single construct. SOLUTION: automatically hide the original sprite every time it is cloned. OBJECTION: this is "weird" too. ANSWER: yes, this is weird too...