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#1 2008-06-20 10:57:22
- s_federici
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- Registered: 2007-12-18
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Special effects not working
I'm runnig the source code by following instructions at http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/source. Everything seems to work fine. I installed several plugins and additions by Jens and they work fine. But I seem unable to use the color/whirl/fisheye special effects (I get just a "dong" sound when I doubleclick on them in the script window). Is this something that is already known?
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#3 2008-06-27 05:26:57
- s_federici
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- Registered: 2007-12-18
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Re: Special effects not working
No, I'm using ScratchSourceCode1.2.1.image. And I checked that those effects work fine in Jens' Chirp (from the same image). Why is this happening then???
Last edited by s_federici (2008-06-27 05:28:46)
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#4 2008-06-30 19:31:51
Re: Special effects not working
It might have something to do with Mpeg3Plugin.dll or scratchplugin.dll. I understand Scratch on Ubuntu Linux can't use the graphic effects because these are windows-based files. Try dragging these into the same folder as the source image?
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#5 2008-06-30 20:25:03
- Cyclone103
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Re: Special effects not working
fullmoon wrote:
It might have something to do with Mpeg3Plugin.dll or scratchplugin.dll. I understand Scratch on Ubuntu Linux can't use the graphic effects because these are windows-based files. Try dragging these into the same folder as the source image?
I had a similar problem, and I tried that previously and it worked just fine.
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#6 2008-07-01 04:49:47
- s_federici
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Re: Special effects not working
Thanks a fullmon. That solved the problem 
I guess this instructions should be added to Scratch's source page. I'm going to post to the suggestion forum.
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#7 2008-07-20 17:41:50
Re: Special effects not working
An easy way to make graphic effects as well as presentation mode work with Linux is this:
1. Go to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scratch and download Scratch-4.xo.
2. Unzip Scratch-4.xo.
3. Copy the file ScratchPlugin you find in this zip into a directory, where the squeak-vm can find it - on ubuntu for example into /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-8/
Last edited by mschlager (2008-07-20 17:42:58)
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#8 2008-07-20 18:57:23
Re: Special effects not working
mschlager wrote:
An easy way to make graphic effects as well as presentation mode work with Linux is this:
1. Go to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scratch and download Scratch-4.xo.
2. Unzip Scratch-4.xo.
3. Copy the file ScratchPlugin you find in this zip into a directory, where the squeak-vm can find it - on ubuntu for example into /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-8/
Cool, didn't know that! It's the main reason I swithced back to Windows 
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