Scratch

They had a feature like this in scratch 1.4 beta, they might revive it for 1.5

EDIT: 1200 post XD

Last edited by demosthenes (2009-10-18 19:32:03)

Its mesh./....

Also, netscratch was almost exactly what you are saying. Hopefully that too will be revived.

cool! Looks like there was a scratch network, but sounds too complicated for the many little kids on scratch. Lets hope they can make a child friendly version for everyone.

adriangl wrote:

The mesh feature is in BYOB 2.0, but it is connected by user IPs.

That's the only way to do it!

This is a really cool idea which I support, but networks ARE (I'm guessing) REALLY hard to set up. And, there will be at least 50,000 projects with them on.

There used to be something called NetScratch. USED to.

I think simple server capabilities in Scratch would be a great idea. Each project could have a bit of space on the server which could be accessed with a couple of blocks, hash-style:

set value at [string] to [something]
get value at [string]

To keep it simple, each project would only be able to access its own server space. Of course, this would probably result in people downloading a project and messing with the server from there. To circumvent this, perhaps a login feature could be integrated into Scratch and a few additional blocks could be used instead:

set my value at [string] to [something]
get my value at [string]

This would create data that is unique to the user interacting with the project. Of course, the easiest solution would probably be only allow data transfer in the Java player...all this stuff gets muddled because Scratch is open-source.

TobiOlivers wrote:

I have been thinking about this alot and wanted the opinion of everyone else. What scratch needs is a network. What I mean by this is a network that could connect others using blocks in a program. For example, a chatroom project could have actual peple chatting on it. This could mabey be possible like having a block called "send variable (variable)" where the variabe is sent through the network and gets received by mabey a block called "receive variable (variable). This is just an idea, but it would be cool if this was added to the next scratch update (mabey 1.5?).

This sounds like a great idea for Scratch, but I think there is two problems associated with this. First, this will need many more moderators than the Scratch team already has. Also, it will cause alot more work for the Scratch team. Scratch is already great! Besides, there are many other websites that are better than Scratch for chat.

I doubt the ST will enable netscratch again. As they say, no chat.

its in byob 2.0!

Magnie wrote:

Dav09, networking isn't just in BYOB it's in Scratch 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4 betas, 1.4 RC, and 1.4

You just have to enable it in the source.