Scratch

1. Not needed, but would be nice.
2. Don't get what you mean.
3. That already exists. It's called an .sb file.
4. Good idea
5. Another good idea.

I agree with every one of these.

[EDIT - that means 1-10]

Last edited by coolstuff (2010-07-26 08:33:44)

Haha coolstuff, if you weren't a mod then just to mess with you,I would go back and edit the entire list into something like this!!...

1) Scratch should go from free to pay with funds going to support the 4th Reich.
2) All Scratch projects lacking gratuitous blood and violence should immediately be flagged for removal if not corrected in 2 weeks.
3) all users allowed a maximum of 3 forum posts per 4.5 weeks.

etc, etc lol. Instead I will only point out that I had ideas 1-7 only added at this point, just for future reference 

Archmage, you are the man so I did't even have to go look to know your suggestions are good ones. Of course I'd be honored to include them. Should I merge them into one list or would you prefer just a permanent link in my first post? Great ideas and it looks like "8. Save Variables To Cookie:" is the closest we have to a double.

I feel bad really. I have forgotten a ton of ideas that I found but kept scripting and never wrote down. I think I may even have an old .rtf list maybe backed up on some cd or somewhere.

yoshigal wrote:

I think that you should'nt have to download scratch to submit art   

That's just not right. Scratch isn't a place for sharing just art.

Lots of great new suggestions here! I agree with a lot of them, but I'll explain why I don't agree with some of them in due time 

Locomule wrote:

11) If touching edge wrap

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this one... Elaborate?

12) User can set "if touching edge bounce" to Left (or Right, Top, or Bottom) - this function is already basically written into if touching edge bounce, it just needs to be able to be triggered by the user to allow for automatic bounce figuring no matter where the sprite is at on the screen

You mean something like "if touching left edge bounce?" That's a good idea - personally, I'd advocate much more for a "touching left edge" block - the "bounce" part seems far more specific than the rest of Scratch at the moment. Of course, I'm not saying they should remove it, but at least add an edge sensing block 

13) If LeftUp, LeftDown, RightUp, RightDown - moving and colliding sprites usually involves knowing which of 4 directions the sprite is currently moving in. The directions are more than often diagonal with each including one of the 4 straight direction (0,90,180,-90) for example RightUp would actually include directions 0-89, etc

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this one - are you asking for sensing in which direction the sprite is moving? I'm sorry, but I don't understand... Maybe I went to bed too late last night.

14) Error, fix this: Currently (v1.4) if you open a project, paste in some new project notes, close the notes editor by hitting "ok", and then close the program, your note changes are not auto-saved and will be lost.

Not sure if that was an error... I think the project notes count as a part of the project, so naturally, not saving the project shouldn't save the project notes. It might get confusing to the majority of people if they didn't save their project and yet their project notes have magically appeared as they were before they saved.

15) A mandatory manual self-rating system for teen/mature themed projects. People who fail to mark their own projects accordingly get flagged by other users, warned, then banned. Would work quickly and effectively with mods getting final say and having no more work than they already do.

I gave my opinions in this post, which incidentally was the 458000th post in the entire forums 

16) Topmost script block in a stack right-clickable to select "Lock" - locked stacks do not move when "clean up" selected

That's a good idea - the only flaw I could find is that it might take some time to unlock all the locked scripts, though I don't think that's much of an issue compared to some of the other time-consuming tasks Scratch provides. I support 

17) new block - "(Name) Trigger (Amount)" creates the variable Name that starts at Amount and decreases by 1 until it reaches zero when it resets. Triggers are user non-stop in big projects, to time broadcasts, loop costume changes, etc.

That's a pretty good idea, but some newer users might not be able to understand what it means. It also wouldn't be too hard to make at the moment and it's a bit too specific compared to the rest of Scratch, so I'm not too sure about this one.

18) "Glide to... or until" - or some way to break out of a Glide movement besides timing out

YESYESYES 1000000% SUPPORT. This is the block of my dreams.

19) "Download To Run" option for uploaded projects. NOT to prevent browser play but to have a black window popup first over the app with the "Please Download To Run ( may not run well online) or click here" message on it. Otherwise tons of Scratchers overlook projects thinking they are improperly coded. Also, this would prevent the common mistake of people forgetting to clik the green flag, instead pushing arrow keys. Similarly, some project elements work while others don't and the viewer mistakenly thinks the script is bad.

With the next version of Scratch, 2.0, projects will run exactly the same online as offline (having both been written in the same programming language - Flash), so it's not a necessary feature 

PS - You don't have to click the green flag to start a project online, you just have to click inside the window 

20) Right clicking a sprite in the sprite list gives a Show option, we also need a Hide option. Otherwise you usually must switch to the sprite you want to hide and open the Looks blocks and click Hide

This I definitely agree to    I can't tell you how many times I've lusted (yes, lusted) after a block like this.

21) In the Drawing app, the area where the rollout for the draw (pen/line) size is bigger than the rollout, why even use the rollout (or whatevr you call it) as it just adds extra steps when drawing in Scratch.

You're referring to the dropdown menu, correct? I completely agree, the sizes are nowhere near being accurate.

22) also in Drawing app...
A) more Undo levels plz

Yep - and also have undoing include moving around and deleting selections, which is what most of my Scratch painting involves. Then I make a mistake and undo, and ALL of my selection work is undone, as well as my last non-selection work.

B) fix small circle drawing (they get squarish and on-round currently)

I think it's more of the pixelation factor that does that - I don't think it'd be that easy to fix.

C) make Text grab handle change color or mullti-color because currently you cannot see it when it is over black

Definitely agree 

D) make same grab handle show in center of screen if zoomed in and currently containing no text (currently you must unzoom, go find it, move it and rezoom to resume

Full & undivided support on this one 

E) also the handle is always top-left of text so you cannot drag text to the top edge of the screen because the handle gets lost

Does it not just stop at the edge? I'd still like to be able to drag it further and have the handle reposition itself to still be visible. So, my support 

F) after being clicked/selected, Fonts should be changeable by mouse wheel or arrow keys and reflected in all user-typed text (as a Font preview feature, otherwise many users will never explore and use the full range of fonts)

Yep, this I support too    They can always preview their fonts in another application if they want, but I doubt they'd want to go that far. I suggested easier ways to browse fonts here... The current way is quite ridiculous.

G) Zoom function - if "center adjustment cross-hair" showing and zoomed out, when zooming in focus center of window onto "sprite center" instead of true center

Yep, this is a must 

H) Copy (to clipboard) and Paste during same editing session

I agree with this for sure. I find the current method of copying & pasting to be rather pathetic.

23) in Control blocks - make the "If (sprite name) clicked" changeable to another sprite besides just the one you are focused on

This has definitely been suggested before, and I totally agree - it's a little hard to sense that right now, and can make everyone's programming more efficient.

24) change the name and description of the Advanced Topics forum. To new forum users (aka me once) it looks like a place to ask harder questions about using Scratch which instead turns out to be All About Scratch, whose description furthers the confusion via the description (Questions about Scratch? No question is too basic! ) I believe that Advanced Topics is now mostly populated (and otherwise promoted) as a place for discussions about source code mods so why not re-name it more appropriately? I am NOT advocating breaking All About Scratch into 2 forums like "easy" and "advanced" btw.

This I definitely agree with. I suggested a new forum for Scratch Modifications here, and I think it would clean Advanced Topics out a lot - and the description is kind of misleading. Any help with Scratch as it is most often used should go in the All About Scratch forum unless you're changing Scratch in some way, or using it differently.

All in all, some pretty good suggestions    Keep up the good work, as this post took me at least 20 minutes to write!

Thank you for that quite lengthy reply - I'll write up another reply sometime soon 

Hopefully it won't be too late. 

hdarken wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

I agree with every one of these.

Do you agree even with this?

locomule wrote:

15) A mandatory manual self-rating system for teen/mature themed projects. People who fail to mark their own projects accordingly get flagged by other users, warned, then banned. Would work quickly and effectively with mods getting final say and having no more work than they already do.

I wrote that before that was written    (Only 1-10 were on the list when this was written - see my analysis of the rest for further details.)

Locomule wrote:

Dude, don't worry about posting anymore. The Suggestions thingy is up now and I don't think this post really matters.

All the posts in the Suggestions forum still matter    Why wouldn't this matter?

Locomule wrote:

I had no WE posted suggested ideas. I thought mods or whoever were finding them and putting them up there and all ideas for consideration were already posted. Lol! I burned through several votes before realizing it takes votes to add your own idea. So I will
A) try to figure out how to get some of my cast votes back (cause I have so many ideas)
B) only add one suggestion every 1?2?3 days (for the same reason lol)

Well, major collections of ideas like this are probably better suited for the forums. But if you have any particularly great ones, you may wish to put it up on the site.

You can always detract your votes by clicking on the orange icon beneath the total number of votes for that idea, then selecting how many votes you want. It's really a matter of budgeting your votes.