Scratch

Remember that a Scratch project can be interactive. This means that you can get user input from the keyboard or the mouse. Videos do not have that capability. They are just played.

For that reason exporting into a video format seems very limiting. It could be useful for those Scratch projects that are only animations but a lot of projects go beyond that.

So I do not expect having an export into video (MOV, MPEG, etc) functionality any time soon.

On the other hand, I do see a point in being able to export as Flash (SWF) or EXE (Windows executable). Right now we are focusing on other features but we would welcome help from professional software developers that are interested in taking this challenge.

Luis, thanks a lot for your interest.

We are actually working on a J2ME player with a cell phone company.  Are you a J2ME developer? Do you want to help us?

If so, please contact us at scratch-feedback -at- media.mit.edu

Scratch on!

blacksheepk wrote:

I have tried a lot of things and none which have worked. I have tried to get my files so that i can play them without opening scratch. So please let me know if you find anything out!

I don't understand what exactly it is that you're trying.
Your projects can be played directly from this site if you upload them or from within Scratch. They can be run from a CD also if you include all the right Scratch files.

How or where are you trying to get them to run?


Scott

blacksheepk wrote:

Bridges-PdP wrote:

blacksheepk wrote:

I have tried a lot of things and none which have worked. I have tried to get my files so that i can play them without opening scratch. So please let me know if you find anything out!

I don't understand what exactly it is that you're trying.
Your projects can be played directly from this site if you upload them or from within Scratch. They can be run from a CD also if you include all the right Scratch files.

How or where are you trying to get them to run?


Scott

I was looking for a button, and trying to move the file to the desktop and then changing the type. Because, if I have no connection i want to play it without opening the program to save time, and make it bigger. But, i found that there is a presentation key. Which helped a bit in playing the game. Do you know how to play them without opening scratch or the web?

Ahh, I see. And I understand now. No, there really isn't a way to run a project without the web or Scratch. Each project is interpreted on the fly each time its run. So, you either have to have Scratch running to interpret it or the java applet on the web running to interpret it. If it were possible to compile it into stand alone code, then what you're wanting would be possible.

Hope this helps,

Scott

johnm wrote:

Hi, blacksheepk.

If you are on WIndows and you did not install Scratch 1.1 using the new Windows Installer file, you might give that a try. You will still need to have Scratch intalled in order to run your project, but the installer makes some registry entries so that when you double-click on a project it starts up Scratch and opens your project.

  -- John

Thanks, I'll give it try.

BSK

Hi, all.

A possible way to run a Scratch project locally is to create a local HTML page for the project and run the project inside your web browser. See http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=127 for details.

There is (intentionally) no way to hide the source code of a Scratch project. We want people to be able to learn by looking at other people's code. But it would be nice to have a way to launch Scratch in presentation mode when you double-click on a project...

  -- John

Rurigok wrote:

I remember someone made a way to turn a scratch project into a windows EXE, although i cant remember who.

jens
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Last edited by gadgetman (2008-12-21 13:41:29)

Bridges-PdP wrote:

I don't think there is any kind of 'export as...' function at this time. The forum has many questions/requests for formats such as QT MOV, SWF, EXE, etc., but right now Scratch projects are predominantly web-based. They can be embedded in other web pages, or played from a CD (http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=790#p790).

You may also want to search the forum for Camtasia which is a nice screen capturing utility and information about how to use it to capture your project for posting on sites such as YouTube.


HTH,

Scott

Scratch files can be saved in a place on your local computer. You can move it to a volume.

Last edited by frogger3140 (2008-12-29 20:47:09)

Scratch is not a video...

To make it into EXE, just use this post:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23910

johnm wrote:

Hi, all.

A possible way to run a Scratch project locally is to create a local HTML page for the project and run the project inside your web browser. See http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=127 for details.

There is (intentionally) no way to hide the source code of a Scratch project. We want people to be able to learn by looking at other people's code. But it would be nice to have a way to launch Scratch in presentation mode when you double-click on a project...

  -- John

Jens' BYOB can compile projects into EXEs. You can then run that file which opens in presentation mode, and closes the window when you try to exit into the interface to see the scripts.

More info can be found in other parts of advanced topics:
  http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10887

Hope it helps 

GraemeK wrote:

Bridges-PdP wrote:

I don't think there is any kind of 'export as...' function at this time. The forum has many questions/requests for formats such as QT MOV, SWF, EXE, etc
...

If you use the BYOB program, you can go to 'Share' then 'Compile this project'.

Basically, this exports it as an .exe file!!

Hope this helps.

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Graeme

This is a really old thread... When that was written, BYOB didn't exist, and that user is no longer active.