Scratch

Recently there has been some interest in the Flexible Wire feature of my project Logic Kit http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Paddle2See/66610 .  What I did here was to use pairs of draggable sprites and connected them with a pen-drawn set of lines to show that the sprites were related.  The pen-drawn lines are updated continuously so it looks like you have a flexible wire, as the endpoint sprites are dragged around.  This method works well in Presentation Mode and on the web as the update speed is very fast - on my PC at least.  In the other Scratch mode (non-presentation?  development mode?) there is noticable screen flicker.

I'd love to hear if folks have other interesting applications where this wire concept might be useful.  I'd also like to hear if anybody has a way to get rid of the flicker problem or has other suggestions to improve performance.

By the way, Jay has created a new Toolkits gallery for any toolkit projects that may be out there that are looking for a home!