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#126 2011-03-20 12:47:38
#127 2011-03-20 13:05:16
- YourLocalBlockLib
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
BYOB blocks are, more, exiting. You have to change the link AND the front cover. I can't wait for operators! (I cannot decide whether that is sarcasm or not.)
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#128 2011-03-20 14:19:40
- scimonster
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
YourLocalBlockLib wrote:
scimonster wrote:
BYOB sensing:
Asks and doesn't wait.scimonster wrote:
Does the other thing while waiting for you to answer.
Alternate:
Both blocks work exactly the same.scimonster wrote:
scimonster wrote:
improved version of the BYOB <x is between () and () >
even more improved:
I also need the block images for the first and the scripts for the all of them.
~SSBBM
They are all there. 
The other one loaded for me, but it is just [switch to costume (0)+(0)].
If you can't see them, try right-clicking and selecting "reload image" (Firefox).
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#129 2011-03-20 14:45:23
#130 2011-03-20 14:55:10
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Rexpup wrote:
You misspelled center on one of the blocks as "centre".
Oh, thank you for posting. 
I was think of changing that, but I don't know if our British Librarians would be happy about that.
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#131 2011-03-20 15:34:43
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
yeah, center is American, centre is British. My rule is if I'm typing normally I will use the British spelling but as Scratch is American, if referring to or naming a block with an Americanism in it I will spell it like that. So I would say if it is directly referring to the what is written on the block, change it, otherwise leave it
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#132 2011-03-20 18:39:35
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Rexpup wrote:
You misspelled center on one of the blocks as "centre".
Well, sparks 'misspelled' centre, but in british, they spell it centre, there are a few words spelled differently.
If you are reading this, please read to the end, because if you don't you won't know what's at the end. Don't just skip to the end though otherwise you won't be able to read the middle, which is most important. Now you must be wondering why you just read all that, the reason is you may have not noticed something, read it again and see if you notice it this time
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#133 2011-03-20 18:40:43
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
sparks wrote:
yeah, center is American, centre is British. My rule is if I'm typing normally I will use the British spelling but as Scratch is American, if referring to or naming a block with an Americanism in it I will spell it like that. So I would say if it is directly referring to the what is written on the block, change it, otherwise leave it
Should I change it? I of course won't until done with the other blocks but eventually?
If you are reading this, please read to the end, because if you don't you won't know what's at the end. Don't just skip to the end though otherwise you won't be able to read the middle, which is most important. Now you must be wondering why you just read all that, the reason is you may have not noticed something, read it again and see if you notice it this time
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#134 2011-03-20 18:42:17
#135 2011-03-20 18:50:00
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
sparks wrote:
yeah, center is American, centre is British. My rule is if I'm typing normally I will use the British spelling but as Scratch is American, if referring to or naming a block with an Americanism in it I will spell it like that. So I would say if it is directly referring to the what is written on the block, change it, otherwise leave it
We might as well not change it.
If you are reading this, please read to the end, because if you don't you won't know what's at the end. Don't just skip to the end though otherwise you won't be able to read the middle, which is most important. Now you must be wondering why you just read all that, the reason is you may have not noticed something, read it again and see if you notice it this time
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#136 2011-03-20 18:54:40
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
sparks wrote:
where is it?
Sensing scratch blocks
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#137 2011-03-20 18:59:48
#138 2011-03-20 19:20:22
- YourLocalBlockLib
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Can you help me get transparent surrounded category block pictures on weebly? I made them transparent on scratch and put them on weebly they turn out:
Motion
Control
Looks
Sensing
Sound
Operators
Pen
Variables
home
at first I tried copying the link but it put black in the background.
~Pecola1
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#139 2011-03-20 19:24:13
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
I think that happens if you resize the image or try to edit it at all once you upload it. Have you not found any image hosts that work for you? Weebly honestly isn't the best place to put them 
Can you download dropbox? you can load the images into the public folder to get a link to them. otherwise there must be hundreds of other image hosts
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#140 2011-03-20 19:26:21
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Same with the tested image:
~Pecola1
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#141 2011-03-20 19:28:39
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
sparks wrote:
I think that happens if you resize the image or try to edit it at all once you upload it. Have you not found any image hosts that work for you? Weebly honestly isn't the best place to put them
Oh... the thought never occurred to me, I use dropbox! I never use it for images because of weebly. I might just make those dropbox. And no I didn't resize them. I didn't do anything to them.
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#142 2011-03-20 19:33:02
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
right, use dropbox then! you can place the images directly into the public folder (though you can't linked images inside folders inside public. All of the download code for Panther blocks is hosted by my dropbox as text files, as are the block library header images and some other things on this library!
you should find saving the images to the public folder is a lot faster than weeblyfying them!
I'm trying to make the tested ticked obsolete now as the idea is that every block in the library has been tested and works!
if the problem persists, make sure the images are being saved as PNG files or set the background colour of the images to that of the block library background.
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#143 2011-03-20 19:37:11
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
How do I get the link for a Dropbox picture? I forgot.
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#144 2011-03-20 19:40:52
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
test:
Hmmm... do you know a way how to put transparent on a picture? I cannot get it to work.
~Pecola1
Last edited by YourLocalBlockLib (2011-03-20 19:41:52)
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#145 2011-03-20 19:44:00
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
put it in public folder, right click dropbox>copy public link
the image needs to be a PNG for transparency, that one you shared is a BMP. They don't do transparency
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#146 2011-03-20 19:44:47
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
sparks wrote:
put it in public folder, right click dropbox>copy public link
the image needs to be a PNG for transparency
Ahh..... Thanks.
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#147 2011-03-20 19:48:10
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Test2:
Whoops wrong one!
~Pecola1
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#148 2011-03-20 19:53:06
- YourLocalBlockLib
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Hm... How do I put transparency on a picture, what I have been doing is converting the blocked image to weebly, saving onto computer, opening on scratch, making transparent, exporting, uploading to dropbox, but when you export a costume on scratch it saves it as a bitman file. Do you know how to put transparency on gimp?
~Pecola1
Last edited by YourLocalBlockLib (2011-03-20 19:53:34)
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#149 2011-03-20 19:54:45
- YourLocalBlockLib
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Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
Should I change the scratch source code?
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#150 2011-03-20 19:55:43
Re: ITopic: Welcome to your local block library!
no... I don't see why it's exporting it at a BMP not PNG... paint does not deal with transparency. you could try opening it in gimp, saving it as a PNG and then using the rubber to rub out the white background? I'm not sure, I've not really looked into PNG's in gimp.
It's Bitmap, not bitman, by the way
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