Scratch

As far as I'm aware, Scratch stores costumes in bitmap format embedded in .sprite files, so first goal could be achieved without even touching Scratch; you'd only have to make a php script reading it.

Last edited by filo5 (2010-01-24 15:23:24)

It sounds very doable... Would you want the script to save the images to a directory?

Squeak command line options
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-headless
Tells Squeak to run without a main window. However, for allowing at least some access to Squeak, an icon is added to the system tray. If you double-click this icon, the Squeak window will show up again.
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Ok, that's the first part. I thought I had the mod but it said: subscript out of bounds.
What does that error mean?

I'm not sure if I will get this done on my own but I'll see ^^

Joren

Oh Help.

I added

ScratchScriptEditorMorph saveScriptsToImage.

at the end of

ScratchFrameMorph>importSpriteOrProject:

but it just gives  a red error box with
Message not understood: saveScriptsToImage

I'm really a smalltalk noob and I don't always understand the special syntax 

Hi JSO,

I think you can access the picture of the stage in its current form by calling

   workpane imageForm

from within ScratchFrameMorph.

If you're just interested in reading / exporting the thumbnail that's already stored in a saved Scratch project, you can extract that information by retrieving the entry associated with 'thumbnail' in the Scratch project's info dictionary. Look up method #extractInfoFrom: aByteArray in class ScratchFrameMorph. You can get the ByteArray needed by calling something like:

   | file filename project info thumb|
   filename := 'myScratchProject.sb'.
   file := FileStream readOnlyFileNamedOrNil: filename.
   project := self extractProjectFrom: file binary contentsOfEntireFile.
   info := self extractInfoFrom: project.
   thum := info at: 'thumbnail'

What you get is a bitmap (of class Form). Look there to find out how to save it!

Ah, okay. I guess you just need to make sure to send #saveScriptsToImage to the stage's (or sprite's) blocksBin, not to the stage/sprite itself. Try adding #blocksBin before the #saveScriptsToImage.

Oh well.

I just can't seem to do it, I'll spend some time reading online tutorials soon, but I really need this mod 

Can someone please, please do the script export thing for me?    I will then learn some more squeak and do the sprite thumb export myself, that isn't really neccesary. My server is also ready now...

Thanks a lot in advance,
Joren

fg123 wrote:

I know a lot of php... Can I help?

JSO wrote:

Idk    This Source Code mod has nothing to do with php though 

And I'd love to let you help on the main site, but it's just really difficult to work together on PHP scripts as they need to run on the server and I'd need to give you the server login etc...

I might setup a testing server so all Scratchers uinterested in PHP can help... I'll see 

But still,
Can someone, please, please help me out with these rather small mods?

Yeah, working together might cause some serious screw-ups 

*bump*

Sorry to be bragging so much but could someone, please, please help me out with this?

Wish I could help. I don't even know(yet) how to save the changes in the System Browser on a Mac yet!     

I don't have any answers but I do have a few questions...are you running Scratch Resources off of your own server and are you planning to run Squeak server-side to create the thumbnails?