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#2 2013-04-11 03:04:40
- cheddargirl
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Re: why is it start automatically?
Hi artineer,
All programs uploaded to the website start up automatically online, that's just the way it's set up. There's no way to make the startup manual.
We are changing it for Scratch 2.0, where the project starts only when the green flag is clicked. But if you really want to have a project startup manually right now, one pseudo-workaround would be to use a broadcast hat block in lieu of the "When Green Flag clicked" hat block (though you'd need to script a button that would broadcast the message when clicked).
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#3 2013-04-11 03:28:36
- veggieman001
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Re: why is it start automatically?
you could also try making a variable called something like "after first"
and then be like
when gf clicked if <not <(after first) = [true]>> set [after first v] to [true] stop all end the rest of the scriptthat way, the first time the project runs (when it's loaded), it will stop immediately but the next time and all following times, it will play (because the variable will be true)
i haven't tested this though so it might not work fo' sho'
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#4 2013-04-11 21:12:31
Re: why is it start automatically?
cheddargirl wrote:
Hi artineer,
All programs uploaded to the website start up automatically online, that's just the way it's set up. There's no way to make the startup manual.
We are changing it for Scratch 2.0, where the project starts only when the green flag is clicked. But if you really want to have a project startup manually right now, one pseudo-workaround would be to use a broadcast hat block in lieu of the "When Green Flag clicked" hat block (though you'd need to script a button that would broadcast the message when clicked).
thanks for the reply. when you say in lieu of, do you mean to delete when and replace it with a broadcast? this won't work when green flag is clicked.
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#5 2013-04-12 17:42:32
- cheddargirl
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2008-09-15
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Re: why is it start automatically?
artineer wrote:
cheddargirl wrote:
Hi artineer,
All programs uploaded to the website start up automatically online, that's just the way it's set up. There's no way to make the startup manual.
We are changing it for Scratch 2.0, where the project starts only when the green flag is clicked. But if you really want to have a project startup manually right now, one pseudo-workaround would be to use a broadcast hat block in lieu of the "When Green Flag clicked" hat block (though you'd need to script a button that would broadcast the message when clicked).thanks for the reply. when you say in lieu of, do you mean to delete when and replace it with a broadcast? this won't work when green flag is clicked.
Hi artineer,
I mean that you create a button sprite that works in place of the green flag. Instead of using the block
When gf clickedyou might want to start off scripts using a custom broadcast message. Let's assume you want scripts to start only when they receive a message called "start project". To do that, you could create a button sprite with the script
When [Button] clicked broadcast [start project]And then top of the necessary scripts with
When I receive [start project]instead of the "When green flag clicked" block.
Last edited by cheddargirl (2013-04-12 17:44:38)
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