Scratch

scimonster wrote:

Does anyone want to make a downloadable .image for Scratch, with all the blocks?

Sure, It might take a while but that is a great idea! Though usually a user doesn't want ALL of the blocks, but it would be kind of nice. Another flaw would be, the user would not learn from it. Anyone wands to make a logo? I should say 'Your Local Block Library' it could be like a mod, with all the blocks in the scratch shelf!

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Does anyone want to make a downloadable .image for Scratch, with all the blocks?

I could do all the scratch blocks...some of them.   
Are none librarians allowed to help?

What do you mean? You can so it, if you want! 

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Does anyone want to make a downloadable .image for Scratch, with all the blocks?

I could do all the scratch blocks...some of them.   
Are none librarians allowed to help?

I was doing it, I am done with motion! If you wanted to do it go ahead, please tell me though.

Pecola1 wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

scimonster wrote:

What do you mean? You can do it, if you want! 

I didn't know if I could do it since I wasn't a librarian. 

You can, I doubt it really matters, SPARKS!

I edited the set rotation style block, it was redundant.
~Pecola1

Last edited by YourLocalBlockLib (2011-04-25 15:53:34)

Instead of making an image with all the library blocks, why don't we cannibalize nXIII's patcher system and make all the blocks into patches? (Otherwise we might end up like me when I was making one project for all the BYOB blocks, and then we switched to individual sprites.)

meowmeow55 wrote:

Instead of making an image with all the library blocks, why don't we cannibalize nXIII's patcher system and make all the blocks into patches? (Otherwise we might end up like me when I was making one project for all the BYOB blocks, and then we switched to individual sprites.)

Okay, but we need a new section on how to download a scratch block, can you do that? I am making the patch maker.
Actually, all we need to do is have in that section how to make the patch maker, then how to download the block, this will take some work, but then we will have the WHOLE LIBRARY DOWNLOADABLE! Won't that be great!
We need to give credit to nXIII.
~Pecola1

Last edited by YourLocalBlockLib (2011-04-25 16:54:14)

YourLocalBlockLib wrote:

YourLocalBlockLib wrote:

meowmeow55 wrote:

Instead of making an image with all the library blocks, why don't we cannibalize nXIII's patcher system and make all the blocks into patches? (Otherwise we might end up like me when I was making one project for all the BYOB blocks, and then we switched to individual sprites.)

Okay, but we need a new section on how to download a scratch block, can you do that? I am making the patch maker.
Actually, all we need to do is have in that section how to make the patch maker, then how to download the block, this will take some work, but then we will have the WHOLE LIBRARY DOWNLOADABLE! Won't that be great!
We need to give credit to nXIII.
~Pecola1

I made the section. ~Pecola1

You could make your own way of adding patches.

I just cleaned up the importer section and code, so now the code says "Import Block" where it used to say "Add Patch", and it accepts files with a .block extension. Of course, it isn't tested yet.
-meowmeow55

Last edited by YourLocalBlockLib (2011-04-25 17:34:09)

sparks wrote:

Non-librarians are welcome to add help with the library by working on new ideas - librarians are just there to keep the library updated 

What we need is an online program that can edit the contents of the Scratch smalltalk browser. The program would be able to give a user a list of blocks with checkbox options as to which blocks they want - then add the code for those blocks to the correct section of that copy of Scratch before providing a download link to it. No idea if that's possible. If a patches system is possible to easily use with normal Scratch that will be very cool, I've wanted to find a way to make Scratch blocks downloadable too for ages!

YAY! BTW yall, I have been sick, so I just got a 2-3 hour nap. That felt good, I wonder if i can do my SAT tomorrow? I feel better. [/offTopicness] Let me tell you a problem we will run into and a way too solve it. By making a patch, you cannot simply add to a method, only overwrite it, so for the blockspec, we cannot do. UNLESS we make a dialog which would tell you, "This will over right any block you have made beside ones you download, is that okay?" How do we fix it, we simply make it so each block has its own blockspec, for example the say nothing would be:

sayNothingBlockspec
^( 'looks' ('say nothing' #- #sayNothing) )

And we could simply have a beginning patch for you to download which would have at the end

^ t1 , self obsoleteBlockSpecs, sayNothingBlockspec, hideCursorBlockspec, etc.

This it will also make all the blockspecs, but they will all be blank, until you download that block.

Pecola1 wrote:

I think it might not work well to use patches, you would have to re download the first one every time it is uploaded.

Unless we make it update automatically 

YourLocalBlockLib wrote:

I edited the set rotation style block, it was redundant.
~Pecola1

How?

RocketDevs wrote:

Hi, Does the import block work if you change it for scratch?  (With scratch blocks)


Oh, and how did Panther make variables like $string$?

I don't know, this is a brand new feature that is untested.

EDIT: 600th post on this topic. Not as cool as when I got the 1111th post on the old, but still. 

EDIT2: I added the library title to downloadable scratch blocks.

Last edited by scimonster (2011-04-26 00:02:28)