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cds56 wrote:

Wow.

LOL

Panther is very enthusiastic.

That's just ME! I'm very enthusiastic most of the time    you can expect most anything I post to be... springy 

would you prefer it if I was a little more monotonous and dulled down my flourishing vocabulary? 

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

sparks wrote:

you can expect most anything I post to be... springy 

Or would it be.............sparky?    .......Okay bad play on words. Cool! It looks like you guys are doing all you can to make Panther better. I can't wait for 1.1 

yup. that was terrible. you should be arrested for that one    yeah, we are working very hard on it, and our counter tells us it's been worth it with just under 400 registered downloads!

Last edited by sparks (2010-06-14 16:22:35)

@ Sparks
plz go here.
http://johnnydean1.weebly.com/squeak.html
I need you to go there. I need to talk.

sparks wrote:

Our aim is (bharvey can be smug about this if he likes) to adopt some of the first class methods used in BYOB (permission granted, credit given). hopefully this will include the ability to treat pictures like everthing else, allowing costumes and maybe whole sprites to be read from files and webpages.

Not smug at all!  Just delighted.  Best will be if you reimplement BYOB so it's blindingly fast and has no bugs.

I'm just envisioning this really tall green C-shaped block with a big text box inside it, into which you type Smalltalk code. 

PS  It's starting to look more likely that I won't make it to London unless it's a really quick one-day or two-day thing, which makes the cost of the Chunnel train not seem really worth it.  But stay tuned.

MathWizz has been a bit quiet lately so I can't say how the java player is going, but it's clear that some of our blocks (including any custom blocks) will not work online.

You could try JSqueak, which is a squeak vm written in java. I haven't been able to put a new image in, not even a copy of the default one, but I'm probably getting something wrong. It might be useful, but the file blocks won't work.

Last edited by paulpsicle (2010-06-15 02:31:12)

I know I'm not supposed to, but I thought I'd see what would happen if I used the default variable blocks, without making a variable.



Now, here are the blocks I used:



After pressing space, the reporter still reported "0". And the "show variable" block did nothing.

This isn't a problem, due to the fact that you should actually be making the variables in the first place, I'm just pointing out a little genius effort the Panther Team did to variables.   

Go Panther!

you know panther's paint editor has a resize button, right?

sparks wrote:

you know panther's paint editor has a resize button, right?

It does?...

johnnydean1 wrote:

sparks wrote:

you know panther's paint editor has a resize button, right?

It does?...

somewhere up there with "import" and "undo"

It's one of my favorites, I think I forgot to put it in the "new features" section.

sparks wrote:

cds56 wrote:

Wow.

LOL

Panther is very enthusiastic.

That's just ME! I'm very enthusiastic most of the time    you can expect most anything I post to be... springy 

would you prefer it if I was a little more monotonous and dulled down my flourishing vocabulary? 

nonononoono!

It's possibly a very good thing that you're so enthusiastic!

It IS a good thing 

Monotony is NOT GOOD.

I only use monotonous when I'm bored or when I'm really really really tired early in the morning.

Althouhg, I do have a friend who sounds very emotionless when he records himself on his minipodcast. It's quite funny actually.

I have a much better radio personality, I think.


Well, what new features have been added to 1.1 yetsofar?

cds56 wrote:

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Well, what new features have been added to 1.1 yetsofar?

To check, you can just open Panther!

I love that feature.

Last edited by henley (2010-06-15 18:30:37)

henley wrote:

cds56 wrote:

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Well, what new features have been added to 1.1 yetsofar?

To check, you can just open Panther!

I love that feature.

too lazy, but wait, oh, I guess that is easier than checking the forums.

To answer your question cds56, We are mainly concentrating on making as many things first class as possible for 1.1 (being able to report costumes, strings and colours all in one block (which means we're doing away with the colour variables and replacing them with first class variables.) There aren't going to be that many new blocks, posssible just a few to handle the new first classyness    we're also doing some bug fixes 

Those of you looking forward to loads of new blocks, we're not adding loads more because of the clutter they would cause, but are taking full advantage of the CYOB feature to give you Blockshop, letting people download, share and request specialised blocks 

oh yes, we're also working on resizeable, detatchable and draggable stage and block pallet to provide maximum scripting space and personal preference layout.

oh yes, we're thinking about a menu that lets you check or uncheck a box representing each block so that users can uncheck blocks they never use and hide them, effectively reducing block clutter and we are also thinking about the ability to arrange those blocks to your liking, so you don't always have to scroll down for a block you use frequently. This idea is still in the design stages, but we do hope to include it in 1.1 if we can.

well that's about it that I can think of right now. A little tip for any php and html programmers, while working on Blockshop we've noticed just how much the URL blocks can do as they can search php pages and even trigger php scripts! letting you, for example, create a php counter that goes up by one whenever someone uses your project, letting you keep tabs on your project's popularity. If you have a website, then like us, you can us webpages on the site to store notifications that can be displayed to the user of the project in a window