Scratch

Lucario621 wrote:

Jakey22 wrote:

With the pause button, their should be a pause block and a resume block.

Good idea! 

But the thing is when it is paused, how does it know when to resume?

Jakey22 wrote:

With the pause button, their should be a pause block and a resume block.

There sort of is a pause block: DEBUG.It does other things, too, but it does everything you'd want from PAUSE.  As for resume, as sperry says, it would never be run -- unless we let certain scripts be exempt from pausing, which would be cool but complicated.

PAUSE is a young feature and it has warts, e.g., you can't pause a sound in the middle.  Doing so would be technically a little difficult but not impossible, and maybe Jens will get around to it -- but on the other hand there are a whole pile of urgent problems before August.

Lucario621 wrote:

Jakey22 wrote:

With the pause button, their should be a pause block and a resume block.

Good idea! 

But you can't run a resume block if scripts are paused....

We could have a "pause all but me" block and another one named "resume all". But, of course, what we really want is first class threads, don't we? 
But I really don't want to add more blocks (that's Panther territory  ). Oops, I'm on vacation anyway, no internetz...

Blade-Edge wrote:

Where can I download BYOB3? Or whatever the latest version is

http://byob.berkeley.edu/ There. Download the bleeding-edge, that'll be the latest version.

I was thinking of a [pause until <>] block.

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the talk yesterday, I really enjoyed it.
Earlier today I had made some projects and looked at tutorials, I made a simple tree-generating program.
I made "for i in range()" blocks, a "map" block, and others for practice.
I don't know if it is a bug, but in the first block editor input(when you select a pallet and a block type) when you select a Control block and then select Sensing and then switch to another type, the block type quickly flashes the color of Control.
I'd also consider having lists inside of blocks, for some added convenience.
Like right next to "Make a Variable" there would be "make a list", because with the block that I am doing I need to add to a list and report that list.

Hope you consider my suggestions.

nXIII wrote:

Greatdane wrote:

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the talk yesterday, I really enjoyed it.
Earlier today I had made some projects and looked at tutorials, I made a simple tree-generating program.
I made "for i in range()" blocks, a "map" block, and others for practice.
I don't know if it is a bug, but in the first block editor input(when you select a pallet and a block type) when you select a Control block and then select Sensing and then switch to another type, the block type quickly flashes the color of Control.
I'd also consider having lists inside of blocks, for some added convenience.
Like right next to "Make a Variable" there would be "make a list", because with the block that I am doing I need to add to a list and report that list.

Hope you consider my suggestions.

Use a block variable and set it to 'list >' for an empty list; the 'make a list' UI piece is there only for Scratch project support.

So how do you add to that list?

I don't see a way to do that.

Greatdane wrote:

I don't know if it is a bug, but in the first block editor input(when you select a pallet and a block type) when you select a Control block and then select Sensing and then switch to another type, the block type quickly flashes the color of Control.

Interesting.  I tried a bunch of times and managed to reproduce this once.  Can you reproduce it reliably?  If so, please be more specific about the exact sequence of events.  (Although, to be honest, this one is going to be pretty low on the priority list; it doesn't seem to hurt anything.)

bharvey wrote:

Greatdane wrote:

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Interesting.  I tried a bunch of times and managed to reproduce this once.  Can you reproduce it reliably?  If so, please be more specific about the exact sequence of events.  (Although, to be honest, this one is going to be pretty low on the priority list; it doesn't seem to hurt anything.)

There isn't really a sequence, you can do the same thing with the lists and motion category, etc.

Maybe it's because my computer is lagging. It's just a little visual bug. Nothing really big.

bharvey wrote:

You just drag the orange variable blob onto the list pulldown in ADD <foo> TO <list>.

It was great meeting you, too!

PS I mentioned your problem about finding other local Scratchers to a friend of mine, who suggested starting a "Silicon Valley Scratchers" forum topic, or Facebook page, or whatever your parents are comfortable with.

A Silicon Valley Scratchers forum topic would be a great idea! However, it goes against the rules of giving out personal information. I think that state is the maximum detail you can give away. A facebook page is not an option, you have to be 13 and over to be in Facebook.

Maybe a website with forums and such, linking it to here?

meew0 wrote:

I found a bug in BYOB 2.99.013:

If I make a block with only a space in it, then comes a collection error and I can't access the variables category anymore. 

Yup.  Thanks!

I found a bug! Make a block with a " - " in it.

bharvey wrote:

MathWizz wrote:

I found a bug! Make a block with a " - " in it.

I see, there are a bunch of bugs in the parsing of block names!  Maybe we should just make it a pulldown where you can choose from among 50 popular block names. 

Are you kidding about that?