I've graduated to Scratch from 'Tales Animator'. One feature of that program is the facility to put a subtitle along the bottom of the screen. This can be very useful when telling a story, or when providing text that is ilustrated in the main screen. Is it possible to have a new 'click-in' element for subtitles? How many others would find this useful?
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Thanks for your suggestion. For now, here's a way to add subtitles...You could put a sprite at the bottom of the screen, and put the text for the subtitles in different costumes for the sprite. Then you could switch from one subtitle to the next using the "next costume" block.
I realize that this might not be as easy and straightforward as you had hoped, but you might want to give it a try.
Mitch Resnick
MIT Scratch Team
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Thanks Mitch. At the moment, I'm enjoying myself exploring the wide range of projects created by Scratch users - from the ultra simple through to the highly complex. In the near future I'll start a few projects of my own and the use of subtitles is something that I thought would be useful for me - so I'm grateful for your tip. I'll copy that out and add it to my slowly accumulating set of notes.
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mres wrote:
here's a way to add subtitles...You could put a sprite at the bottom of the screen, and put the text for the subtitles in different costumes for the sprite. Then you could switch from one subtitle to the next using the "next costume" block.
Just to update this post.
I have tried this idea and uploaded it as
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mohlar/9694
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mohlar/9617
My coding skills aren't great, but both ideas work. (the '9617' version runs slowly at the end if viewed online ..... there is a surprise after the black screen).
Last edited by mohlar (2007-06-03 02:04:16)
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