Scratch

You'd also need a place for variable declaration etc...

Also would you want to keep the same sprite interface as the one that already exists? because to me scratch is the type of programming that is easy to visualize as it is all up in the box up the top right 

I do think text based for some people is a good thing, for those that have slower computers or even for people that just prefer to type 

Just my thoughts on this idea 

Well, Scratch was designed for drag-and-drop simplicity for new programmers.

I guess there could be a text function, but it'd be a lot of unnecessary programming.

Me and MathWizz are going to do this!

I would suggest two things:

/when green flag clicked\ is unecessarily long and complicated to type. Define hats using a colon (   like a script head in many scripting languages so example could be

when flag:
when "space" pressed

use speech marks to refer to arguments in a block:

repeat ( ) = repeat "10"

unless you are naming a variable (including existing, in-game variables)

repeat variable

repeat xposition

make variables a naming function at the top of a script.

var=variable name

I say make a completely text-based Scratch. XD
You can use sprite decelerations at the top!

And you can have like little mini-pages for each Sprite and Stage. XD
And it would all translate into Scratch via a reader. XD

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I abused the XD! XD

NeoAtVic wrote:

You'd also need a place for variable declaration etc...

Also would you want to keep the same sprite interface as the one that already exists? because to me scratch is the type of programming that is easy to visualize as it is all up in the box up the top right 

I do think text based for some people is a good thing, for those that have slower computers or even for people that just prefer to type  ,But scratch is meant to be much simpler than text.

Just my thoughts on this idea 

Hey
I can help to program something like that in Java.

ZeroLuck wrote:

Hey
I can help to program something like that in Java.

Awesome! This is very old. Maybe we shouldn't do this.

We could make it a bit like C:

onFlag();
onKey(space);
onClick();
onRecieve(message);

for the hat blocks, then things like:

goFor(10)
addX(10)
addY(10)
send(message)
sendWait(message)
speech(Hello!, 2)
speechForever(Hello!)
thought(Hmm..., 2)
thoughtForever(Hmm...)

I already started to program somethig like that!
The code highlighter works alredy 

I have no idea how to call it 
ScratchText? 

ZeroLuck wrote:

What do you think about that?

<Sprites>
   Sprite1 = "C:/MyPicture1.png";
   Sprite2 = "C:/MyPicture2.png";
</Sprites>

function onStart(){
    Sprite1.setX(399);
    Sprite1.setVisible(true);
    Sprite1.sav("Hello");
    if(Sprite2.touchs(Sprite1)){
          Sprite2.say( "I'm touching Sprite1" );
    }
}
function onKey(char k){
    if(k == 'A'){
        Sprite1.say( "Key 'A' pressed" );
    }
}

A bit complicated... anyone remember Jens XML import/export block thing? I fixed it and can send the new code for 1.4 to you when I am off vacation, but anyways, look at how it saves the XML, see how neat and simple it looks? THAT is how this should be.