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#1 2009-12-19 18:04:10
Preview in Browser
In the next version of scratch, there should be a button that lets you preview how it runs online without having to upload it first (possibly a selection in the Extras menu).
When you upload a nearly glitch-free game you worked on for hours and discover that the problematic Java player destroys it, you don't have many choices: do you repeatedly update it until you find something that works, or write in all-caps in the project notes telling people to download it which many people will probably ignore anyway? If you could preview it in the online player, you could see what goes wrong beforehand then find the best way around it.
The easiest solution would be to just improve the Java player, but I don't think they'll ever get it to run the same as the offline player. Plus, if it developed even more bugs with the next release of Scratch, it would be there until the ST figures out how to fix it.
I'm taking a break from Scratch until 2.0 comes out. Any messages sent between then and now probably won't be read - sorry.
(Oct. 20, 2011)
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#2 2010-01-27 13:05:20
- rubiks_cube_guy238
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Re: Preview in Browser
I agree fully.
The glass is never half full nor half empty; it is twice as large as it needs to be.
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#3 2010-01-27 13:17:51
- Paddle2See
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Re: Preview in Browser
I'm pretty sure the next version of Scratch will let you create the project online...so you will know how it runs there right from the start. That's the rumor I'm hearing anyway. It is very frustrating, fighting with the Java player, that's for sure!
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#4 2010-01-27 13:29:23
- RHY3756547
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Re: Preview in Browser
Paddle2See wrote:
I'm pretty sure the next version of Scratch will let you create the project online...so you will know how it runs there right from the start. That's the rumor I'm hearing anyway. It is very frustrating, fighting with the Java player, that's for sure!
Rumor? Paddle2see, you know everything about scratch, you know that it is. 
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#5 2010-01-27 13:32:42
- everythingRhymes
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Re: Preview in Browser
i've been rumored to have a third eye at the top of my third nose
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#7 2010-01-27 13:42:51
- juststickman
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Re: Preview in Browser
Paddle2See wrote:
I'm pretty sure the next version of Scratch will let you create the project online...so you will know how it runs there right from the start. That's the rumor I'm hearing anyway. It is very frustrating, fighting with the Java player, that's for sure!
Stop acting so innocent!!! It says "scratch team" right under your username!!!
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#8 2010-01-27 19:14:59
- Jonathanpb
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Re: Preview in Browser
Paddle2See wrote:
I'm pretty sure the next version of Scratch will let you create the project online...so you will know how it runs there right from the start. That's the rumor I'm hearing anyway. It is very frustrating, fighting with the Java player, that's for sure!
But projects run differently online... would we have to write projects to work with the Java player, not with Scratch? 
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