Scratch

bbbeb wrote:

They are Built In Squeak Morphs.

They have Absolutely NOTHING to do with Scratch.

but why are they there?did the scratch team think that scratchers would get bored looking at blocks for hours and might want to play Tetris?

WeirdF wrote:

TVflea wrote:

bbbeb wrote:

They are Built In Squeak Morphs.

They have Absolutely NOTHING to do with Scratch.

but why are they there?did the scratch team think that scratchers would get bored looking at blocks for hours and might want to play Tetris?

Well, like bbbeb said, they are not to do with Scratch. Scratch was built on a programming language called Squeak, and all these morphs are just implemented into Squeak, not Scratch.

And yeah, you can't upload a project with a morph in unfortunately...

For more information on morphs, including an explanation of what each morph is, see this Scratch Wiki article: Scratch Morph

so why didn't the scratch team take it of?

sparks wrote:

they didn't take it off, they never added it. The online projects are played in a java player, which is programmed to turn scratch block scripts into a java player script and play the project. The java player does not know how to play a morph so it skips it and nothing appears 

Well, actually, anything in Smalltalk that you can see on the screen is a morph. Even the Sprites are morphs. The reason it doesn't show any morphs that aren't sprites or the stage on the online Java Player is because the uploader only uploads information about the sprites and stage, their sounds, their costumes, and their blocks. The Java Player then translates the blocks into executable Java code.

Morph subclass: #NameOfSubClass "Create a new class with this to inherit Morph"

I suggest looking at the Morph class and looking at tutorials online, you can also inherit other morphs such as PasteUpMorph or StringMorph, etc..   

TVflea wrote:

scratcher7_13 wrote:

Is there a way to create a new morph?

i don't think so

Yes, you can. You just need to create a new class and add its definition to the new morph menu. It's a complicated matter, however.

Pecola1 wrote:

TVflea wrote:

I was hacking scratch(holding shift and clicking the r off-line    ). I didn't get very far,only up until the world window when something caught my eye.a button that said New Morph... I clicked it.it took me to a new window that said Add A New Morph...I then clicked From Alphabetical List.it had tons of stuff!a clock!a little paint editor! even Tetris    ! I clicked on a morph that said Bouncing Atoms.soon I realised that if I uploaded the project with Bouncing Atoms in the middle of the screen,I would have instant fame for making a project with no sprite and no script.it didn't work    ,though.my question is,what are those for?the scratch team when they got bored making scratch    ?

I have done this MILLIONS of times, I like the tetris one. LOL

i like the bouncing atoms one 

I myself have wondered why some of them are there...however, look at teh apint editor.  Where have you seen that?  (hint hint)  The Multiline String Morph?  Download Panther (http://pantherprogramming.weebly.com/index.html) adn look at teh "About Panther" thing in the "help" menu.  Those kind of little things make Scratch what it is.  The clock?  Okay, I admid, that's a little coo-kou.  Maybe there wasn't a clock in the MIT lab where Scratch was created...Get the idea?  Hope it helps!

     I heard you were hacking Scratch.  http://customblocks.weebly.com/index.html might help you.   

EDIT: Sorry about the typos.   

Last edited by legomany3448 (2011-04-04 16:41:59)

TVflea wrote:

I was hacking scratch (holding shift and clicking the r off-line    ). I didn't get very far, only up until the world window when something caught my eye.a button that said New Morph... I clicked it. it took me to a new window that said Add A New Morph...I then clicked From Alphabetical List. it had tons of stuff!a clock! a little paint editor! even Tetris    ! I clicked on a morph that said Bouncing Atoms. soon I realised that if I uploaded the project with Bouncing Atoms in the middle of the screen, I would have instant fame for making a project with no sprite and no script. it didn't work    ,though.my question is,what are those for? the scratch team when they got bored making scratch    ?

well, you can't upload morphs, (exept some!    i was looking for that project when i found this instead.

Last edited by lights0123 (2011-07-05 08:52:35)

I once uploaded a switch morph and a button morph. Thankfully, it worked. But sadly, it stopped working, so I had to delete the projects.