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#1 2008-03-25 12:13:31
Website improvements
What do you think could improve the site?
I've got one: Being able to hold arrow keys down in projects instead of having to tap it constantly.
Also, I have problems adding comments on projects. 
Anything you think needs improving on the website?
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#5 2008-04-07 12:08:55
Re: Website improvements
Actually, if you put the right script in you don't have to tap it constantly. instead of:
[blocks]
<when[ down arrow ]key pressed>
<change y by( -1)>
You can do:
<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<if><key[ down arrow ]pressed?>
<change y by( -1)>
<end>
<end>
[/blocks]
It works perfectly. You do not need to tap things.
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#7 2008-04-12 03:24:49
Re: Website improvements
Looby: what exactly do you mean with zoom?
As for projects getting stuck when loading, which project are you referring? All of them? Do you even see the "Loading..." bar? In most cases I have seen, projects with large music files or a lot of images tend to go beyond the default limits of the Java Virtual Machine and fail to load. You can try avoiding putting large music files in your projects and see if this fixes the problem.
Do you happen to use MacOS and Java 1.5? I think in some machines this causes sessions to expire and log you out. We are still not sure why this happens but we'll look into it.
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#8 2008-04-12 12:49:39
Re: Website improvements
By zoom I mean on scrolling projects I set a sprite the size of the stage to 200% size. Works on Scratch but the website doesn't seem to like it.
I use MacOS 10 point something but I dunno about Java. Most of time the loading bar doesn't come up.
They should make the website a bit less glitchy.
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#9 2008-04-12 12:58:21
Re: Website improvements
Looby wrote:
This website is so bad they must improve!!!
The zoom on my projects won't work, it gets stuck when it loads, I can't comment and when I re-load the page so i can comment it logs me out!!
yes that happens to me when I'm on my dads computer but when I'm on my pc I never get logged out
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#11 2008-05-16 14:42:26
Re: Website improvements
I HATE THIS WEBSITE I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I'VE ATTEMPTED TO TAG, COMMENT ON, RENAME OR CHANGE PROJECT NOTES ON ANY PROJECTS. EVERY TIME I TRY IT EITHER SAYS Sorry, Invalid Request. OR NOTHING AT ALL! SO I RELOAD THE PAGE AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENS...
IT LOGS ME OUT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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#12 2008-05-16 15:37:27
- relyt12101
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2007-05-19
- Posts: 500+
Re: Website improvements
Looby: See this thread - http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2153&p=1
andresmh wrote:
Thanks everyone. We have narrowed down the problem of frequent session time out to Mac OS X with a specific version of Java.
It was about auto logouts - update your version of Java to get rid of this problem.
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#13 2009-01-13 20:52:16
Re: Website improvements
andresmh wrote:
Looby: what exactly do you mean with zoom?
As for projects getting stuck when loading, which project are you referring? All of them? Do you even see the "Loading..." bar? In most cases I have seen, projects with large music files or a lot of images tend to go beyond the default limits of the Java Virtual Machine and fail to load. You can try avoiding putting large music files in your projects and see if this fixes the problem.
Do you happen to use MacOS and Java 1.5? I think in some machines this causes sessions to expire and log you out. We are still not sure why this happens but we'll look into it.
I have that exact problem.
My project has one music file but it's four minutes long and I think it's the cause of my project not loading.(It gets to the end and stops.) My project only uses one minute of the song. Is there any program I can use to shorten the music? Or is there some other way?
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#14 2009-01-13 21:09:27
Re: Website improvements
The zoom is because scratch can't really handle big sprites yet though
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#15 2009-01-14 04:41:27
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Website improvements
Maki-Tak wrote:
My project has one music file but it's four minutes long and I think it's the cause of my project not loading.(It gets to the end and stops.) My project only uses one minute of the song. Is there any program I can use to shorten the music? Or is there some other way?
Sure...you can use Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net . It is free and can be used to shorten up audio files as well as do lots of other things. You can also try increasing your Java memory limits, take a look here...
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=59262#p59262
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#16 2009-01-14 10:23:48
Re: Website improvements
I Hope This Goes With The Topic...
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