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what-the wrote:

Chrischb wrote:

what-the wrote:

That is a great guide. I already have a very confusing 1 sprite & 1 script (visual scratch) and it's a programming language I made up and it's not even finished yet. The length of the script almosts crashes scratch.

I can't wait to see your project!

Thanks. Programming the project takes ages now. Just to change text it take over 10 seconds for the option to come up. Yet alone entering each letter.

I know exactly what you mean. 

Chrischb wrote:

what-the wrote:

Chrischb wrote:

I can't wait to see your project!

Thanks. Programming the project takes ages now. Just to change text it take over 10 seconds for the option to come up. Yet alone entering each letter.

I know exactly what you mean. 

Yeah, that's why I never make 1sp 1sc games. But I still have some of those really long scripts in my projects. They are SO aggravating.

The-Whiz wrote:

WeirdF wrote:

I found the perfect project to test people's hacking skills: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/The-Whiz/749965

No! I've had enough of people trying to get into that!    I'm just going to delete it...

Sorry. 

If your project has lots of sprites, you don't have to bother with hiding them all. Just spread the thing among the sprites. Let's make a huge stockpile of broadcasts, some of them fake, which do all the communication with scripts. Make their names random, like Waffles584_a5 Personally, I never used this one, but... Try this:
Sprite1:Script1->Sprite3:Script8->Sprite2:Script1->Sprite6:Script1->Sprite1:Script2->Sprite5:Script2

The remixer might discover the connections, but it'd take ages. Also, if it's BYOB, try embedding custom blocks in custom blocks in custom blocks (maybe some recursion?).

For hackers: If you see a stockpile of messages, try broadcasting them by random and see what's happening. If it's BYOB, see what's inside the grey blocks...

Chrischb wrote:

There have been lots and lots of people who support the Locking Downloads button.

nooo! i always download projects to see how they are made!!

No one has considered the technique I use... Have your code so messy that even you have trouble understanding what on earth is going on! XD

funkymonkey wrote:

Chrischb wrote:

There have been lots and lots of people who support the Locking Downloads button.

nooo! i always download projects to see how they are made!!

Same here. But don't worry, because it won't happen. 

Chrischb wrote:

what-the wrote:

Chrischb wrote:

I can't wait to see your project!

Thanks. Programming the project takes ages now. Just to change text it take over 10 seconds for the option to come up. Yet alone entering each letter.

I know exactly what you mean. 

I always try to make my 1s-1s in little bits. If I have a huge forever loop, I'll do each if statement separate from the loop then add it to the forever loop once it's done.

I have run into that problem before, I was making a code project. I had an if statement for every letter of the alphabet...

what i did to protect myself from hackers was a system that detects any unnormal change and "ban" them from the program. if the hackers change the "ban" variable which is responsible for if they are banned or not, a duisguised variable overrides the change and they get banned again!

filo5 wrote:

Why quote from my post has author set to fg123?

Did I quote you wrong...?

Yes, I did. Sorry about that; it's fixed now.

I think I know how to see hidden sprites.

(Scratch 1.4)
1. Open a project that is likely to have hidden sprite.
2. Hold shift.
3. Click file holding shift.
4. "Write project summary"
5. Open the file in Notepad++
6. See all the scripts in a textual form, together with sprite names (just all the project info dump).

greenflash wrote:

Chrischb wrote:

what-the wrote:

Thanks. Programming the project takes ages now. Just to change text it take over 10 seconds for the option to come up. Yet alone entering each letter.

I know exactly what you mean. 

I always try to make my 1s-1s in little bits. If I have a huge forever loop, I'll do each if statement separate from the loop then add it to the forever loop once it's done.

I have run into that problem before, I was making a code project. I had an if statement for every letter of the alphabet...

Thats what I do but then changing it.... Trying to take the if statement out of the script is like waiting for the grass to grow.

I counted over 40 if statements and 8 repeat until's in my project visual scratch. I have estimated that there are over 260 blocks in the one script.

16Skittles wrote:

to find a hidden sprite, make a sprite and put this script: [blocks]<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<go to[ hidden sprite
<end>

that will make the sprite go to the hidden sprite. If you don't know which the hidden sprite is, it's the sprite that doesn't show up in the sprites area.
[/blocks]
then press the stop button,  record the X and Y positions, move the finder sprite, then double click at the X and Y positions to find the hidden sprite.

Ooh, nice idea.