Scratch

ooogabooga · 2008-02-19 19:04:32

The variable blocks currently only show the help option and duplicate whenever you right-click them. They should also to be able to change to other variables. The number operation blocks can do it. That feature would really help me.

ooogabooga · 2008-02-20 10:18:30

In scratch, you could be able to custom design the appearance of the variables on the screen

ooogabooga · 2008-02-21 10:51:25

A block that can measure the distance to the edge of the screen is needed for many types of projects. Why don't we combine that with the distance to ___ block that we already have?

kevin_karplus · 2008-02-21 12:28:30

Is "distance to edge" often needed? The way "distance to ..." is currently defined, it measures from the rotation center to a point. Usually you don't just want distance to edge, but distance to a specific edge, which is easily done in the current system:

If you want "distance to right edge" it is just 240-x, distance to left edge is x+240, distance to top edge is 180-y, and distance to bottom edge is y+180. (If you want off-screen positions to have positive distance, rather than negative distance, put abs() around each of those.)

ooogabooga · 2008-02-25 17:52:20

After looking at your reply, I agree. Thanks for the help.

ooogabooga · 2008-02-26 18:10:40

On the website, there should be a basic tutorial for using trigonometry for simpler applications, such as a cannon.

ooogabooga · 2008-02-26 18:51:31

On the My Stuff page, you can look at the # of comments but not tags, love-its, and views. Why is that so, and can it be changed ASAP?

abstractist · 2008-02-27 14:48:50

[edited by Jens: deleted a long essay totally unrelated to Scratch]

JSO · 2008-02-27 15:55:48

Abstractist - why do you post that on this forum? It doesn't seems to be related to scratch suggestions...

ooogabooga · 2008-02-27 16:11:10

That is just his ENglish project.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-03 17:50:16

There needs to be a way to enter more complicated mathematics into scratch without needing to bother with nesting all the blocks and following those orders of operation. Maybe the next version you will be able to type things in.

kevin_karplus · 2008-03-04 06:27:44

I find it very difficult sometimes to move large math formulas around with the mouse and get them to drop into the tiny slots. I would welcome the ability to type rather than mouse for a lot of scratch programming.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-04 17:53:33

In the Suggestion forum, you should be able to sort the posts inside a thread by date, with the option of most recent on top or oldest on top.

kevin_karplus · 2008-03-04 18:00:13

Posts inside a thread *are* sorted by date. What difference in behavior do you want?

ooogabooga · 2008-03-05 17:19:12

kevin_karplus wrote:
Posts inside a thread *are* sorted by date. What difference in behavior do you want?

You should sort them so the newest are on top and the oldest are at the back.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-10 17:53:23

Four things
1)On the forum, it should be possible to reply to a specific post, instead of dumping your reply at the bottom of the thread.
2) The team also should come out with more frequent versions with smaller changes instead of one every two years with critical changes.
3) It should be possible to use the keyboard by typing stuff in instead of mousing everything. It would make it much easier to do math and simpler scripts like "Forever" or "IF"
4) There should be a way to make your own blocks and post them as a "Block Project"

ooogabooga · 2008-03-13 17:17:00

Scratch should be able to have typed input that is converted into blocks to make constructing meticulous block chains. There could also be a scratch folder like "Control" or "Motion" that contains packages of blocks for movement etc.

There can also be a way to create a new block using Java, C++, or some other programming language.

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ooogabooga · 2008-03-16 16:23:51

There definitely should be a bunch of pre-packaged sprites.

qwertyu63 · 2008-03-16 20:07:35

ooogabooga wrote:
There definitely should be a bunch of pre-packaged sprites.

There is.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-20 17:06:47

There should be a 3d version of scratch that is available to more advanced Scratchers. (But anyone could get it) It would be the next step towards other languages like Flash.

fullmoon · 2008-03-23 15:27:48

Here's an idea. One of the things I miss most in Scratch os the ability to morph sprites, so they can be really wide or tall, or be skewed. This could be put into a new "transform effects" block.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-24 17:16:24

You can do that with the"change____effect by___" block.

ooogabooga · 2008-03-31 17:04:26

There should be part of the website for teachers so they can set up basic classes in scratch as electives in middle school. Scratch has taught me so much programming, math, and other things. smile smile

ooogabooga · 2008-04-14 17:52:05

Sprites must be able to stretch and bend etc.

ooogabooga · 2008-05-30 17:16:03

There should be a form of Scratch website government. Maybe? Hopefully? But how would we choose who is in it.....................

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