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#1 2009-06-27 19:39:26
Text Games In Scatch?
Other than "say" and "show", is there anyway to put text on the screen. I don't want it in a stupid talking bubble, and I don't want in a movable box orange box, and I certainly don't want to make a sprite or costume for every letter. What a ridiculous thing...."say". What's wrong with a simple "put" command, I mean GOD!
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#3 2009-06-27 21:54:12
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Text Games In Scatch?
The text capabilites of Scratch are pretty new and not very well developed at this point. You can:
1. Use the Say or Think blocks to put text in a bubble
2. Use a variable to display a line of text
3. Use a list to display multiple lines of text
4. Create a sprite with an alphabet of costumes (not all that hard to do, you can probably import it from another project) and use the Stamp block to print text to the screen, one letter at a time.
5. Use the pen to draw the text (slow and difficult to do) like this project
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Paddle2See/277227
6. Use a different programming language that has more text output options.
Maybe you can make us a nice routine that uses the 1.4 text functions and costume stamping to allow us to print a line of text anywhere on the screen at different text sizes. That would be a handy thing!
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