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#1 2011-03-21 22:10:15

Severus14
Scratcher
Registered: 2011-02-03
Posts: 62

What is the Pen?

Every time I make a Project, I see a little thing tabbed Pen. I know what a Pen is, but how do you use it on scratch?  hmm

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#2 2011-03-21 22:24:51

silvershine
Scratcher
Registered: 2010-11-21
Posts: 500+

Re: What is the Pen?

Your right, you can use the pen in scratch to have your projects draw! Some people even make projects that generate different patterns!

Here is an example of a simple pen script:
[blocks]
<when green flag clicked>
<clear>
<pen down>
<set pen color to( blue
<move( 5 )steps>

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#3 2011-03-21 22:25:22

Harakou
Community Moderator
Registered: 2009-10-11
Posts: 1000+

Re: What is the Pen?

Pen lets you draw on the stage with a sprite. Try using the "pen down" block and then making the sprite move around - it will draw wherever it moves!


http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&amp;return=image&amp;link1=http://i.imgur.com/OZn2RD3.png&amp;link2=http://i.imgur.com/duzaGTB.png&amp;link3=http://i.imgur.com/CrDGvvZ.png&amp;link4=http://i.imgur.com/POEpQyZ.png&amp;link5=http://i.imgur.com/ZKJF8ac.png

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#4 2011-03-24 12:40:42

RapKat
New Scratcher
Registered: 2011-01-13
Posts: 1

Re: What is the Pen?

The pen tool can be used for many things. When you press pen down a line follows where your sprite goes but the stamp tool can be just as useful as the pen tool if you know how to use it look at my tutorial to learn a little bit about the stamp tool

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/RapKat/1677545

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