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#1 2008-09-21 15:45:42

Mayhem
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Registered: 2007-05-26
Posts: 1000+

Hacking the "Say" speech balloon.

I'd like to use lists as an easy way to make a random phoneme generator - the screen flashes up a grapheme (letter or group of letters) and my class has to respond with the correspending phoneme (sound made by those letters when spoken aloud).

My first attempt:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/271264

The guts work well enough, but the speech baloon is tiny!  There is no way AFAIK of making it bigger - but is this something that one of our more skillful programmers can hack?

Can you hack scratch to make the speech balloons and the text within them larger?


Web-spinning Spider:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/18456
3D Dungeon Adventure:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/23570
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#2 2008-09-22 02:41:14

Jens
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Registered: 2007-06-04
Posts: 1000+

Re: Hacking the "Say" speech balloon.

Hi Mayhem,

Would you just need a bigger font in the speech bubble or would you need to have more control over the speeck bubble's area? Both would essentially be rather easy hacks, but they naturally would only work in Scratch and not online.


Jens Mönig

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#3 2008-09-23 16:28:28

Mayhem
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Registered: 2007-05-26
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Re: Hacking the "Say" speech balloon.

A bigger font in the bubble, with the bubble (naturally) being big enough to hold the enlarged font. 

And it is for use in the classroom, so not working online wouldn't be a problem.


Web-spinning Spider:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/18456
3D Dungeon Adventure:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/23570
Starfighter X: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/21825
Wandering Knight: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/28484

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