Scratch

Hello? Is anybody still working on this?

Panther Forum?

Would you post the occasional update then?

climber59 wrote:

Would you post the occasional update then?

Updates, but no programs probably.

Ok, lets see...
Lets start off with the basic stuff.

A few there to make you happy?

Next is lists.

Nothing really special besides the make list, which might come in handy.

Lets move onto the cloning blocks.

Very helpful and fun to play with. There'll be a sample project on this when we release Panther.

Dragging blocks now.

These can be pretty helpful.

Some new blocks which will come in handy, I'm sure.


Now a set of rather specialized blocks.


Moving onto the sprite names.

Plus a reporter if the sprites a clone or not.

This set is not really finished yet, there a few glitches.


Ever wanted to know what the colour is set to?


The return of the stretch blocks!


And the block that lots of people have wanted.


Now onto the good stuff. NxIII is still working on this, but it should be finished soon.

With these you can move the background around!


Oh yeah! Need I say more?

Now onto something which is very cool.


Combine that with this:



And you can get input from the webcam, without having to have the screen open.

Next is very cool.

An entire page full of colour blocks. I made a project with allows me to press a button on the screen via webcam!

Plus new reporters for said colours.
and

Plus there is the CYOB - Code Your Own Block
Which does require knowledge of Smalltalk.

Lets do a little overview of it.

Set the blocks name

Design

Use blocks already in the program.
Then you're final block.


Thats it I think.

lol nice point

Is this gonna be a private programming language or public?

naw, programs made in panther opened in another version of scratch or scratch itself won't run anyways because of all the new blocks. although it might be useful for a project to tell which version of Panther it is running... I'll think about it.

cruelty247: we are going to distribute Panther for free, just like scratch if that's what you mean, anyone can use it, and thanks to our (being developed) sharing site, people hopefully will. If you mean is it open source, we plan to release the first version without the source code being acessable due to the high amounts of code being published without credit on the forums at the moment, it may become open source in later releases. If anyobody reading this plans to look at how Panther works under the hood and such, be aware that we are distributing Panther with a terms of service that you must abide by. here is an excerpt regarding copying and modding:

If the Software is published or distributed, or any parts of the coding or design are used, published or distributed,
then a message stating "Panther, based on Scratch from the MIT media lab" must be displayed in an easily visible space in that distributed
copy of the software or "based on Panther, based on Scratch from the MIT media lab" must be displayed in an easily visible space
in that distributed copy of the software if it is an edited format, changed from the version distributed with this notice
in any way. If part of the graphics or coding of this Software is distributed, shared or sent without the rest of the Software
then full credit to Panther must be sent, shared or distributed with that graphics or coding as well as a copy of this
terms of service.

Byob

@Everyone:
The screenshots MarkyParky56 used were a tiny bit outdated, here is the most recent CYOB shot: (I added a color picker)

Also, disregard the first color watcher screenshot, that was a work-in-progress shot, not a final product

nXIII wrote:

@Everyone:
The screenshots MarkyParky56 used were a tiny bit outdated, here is the most recent CYOB shot: (I added a color picker)
http://i44.tinypic.com/2l3ztz.png
Also, disregard the first color watcher screenshot, that was a work-in-progress shot, not a final product

Which one?

Or

I took both of them in version 0.3.

Zorbak42 wrote:

Can I contribute some code? Here ya go: (enable programmer facilities)

Code:

Instance: enableProgrammerFacilities
    Preferences enableProgrammerFacilities
Class: ('enable programmer facilities' #- #enableProgrammerFacilities)

and: (save image and close Zatch (you could change it to Panther, Zatch is my Scratch mod))

Code:

Instance: saveImage
    ScratchFrameMorph new openInWorld; saveImageForEndUser
Class: ('save image and close Zatch' #- #saveImage)

Why would we put a block like that in Panther, if the first version will be non-open source?

Zorbak42 wrote:

P.S. When's Panther coming out?

Unconfirmed.

Thanks Jens! I'm glad you like it, I noticed that you did the german translation for Scratch too when I was adding new translations into the de.po file.

Ich habe nich gewüsst dass Sie Deutsch sprechen konnte aber ihren Name ist halt Deutsch.

yes, I really like the UI block feature too, I hope it will allow even more to be achieved through Panther.

well thanks for your contribution anyway Zorbak, it's good that people are willing to suggest things ^_^

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