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#1 2011-09-09 17:38:19
Importing from Clipboard
More commonly referred to as copy-paste, shouldn't this have been part of Scratch since the beginning? Not just scripts, but also for the paint editor. If you made a picture from paint or another image editing software, would it be better just to copy-paste than to save the image and import it? Maybe I'm just uninformed, but I really want to do this.
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#2 2011-09-09 18:00:10
Re: Importing from Clipboard
I agree on the copy-pasting of images, but I'm not sure how it would work with scripts. If you copy a script in Scratch, what would happen if you pasted it into another program, like Microsoft Word? And what would happen if you copied some random text in another program and tried to paste it into Scratch? 
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#3 2011-09-09 18:29:20
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Greenatic wrote:
I agree on the copy-pasting of images, but I'm not sure how it would work with scripts. If you copy a script in Scratch, what would happen if you pasted it into another program, like Microsoft Word? And what would happen if you copied some random text in another program and tried to paste it into Scratch?
Scripts are already able to be duplicated (press the button)
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#4 2011-09-09 18:34:24
Re: Importing from Clipboard
cygene wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
I agree on the copy-pasting of images, but I'm not sure how it would work with scripts. If you copy a script in Scratch, what would happen if you pasted it into another program, like Microsoft Word? And what would happen if you copied some random text in another program and tried to paste it into Scratch?
Scripts are already able to be duplicated (press the button)
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. When you duplicate a script it only duplicates inside of Scratch. But the clipboard is available to all programs. What would happen when another program reads Scratch script data, or Scratch reads data from another program?
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#5 2011-09-09 18:36:19
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Greenatic wrote:
cygene wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
I agree on the copy-pasting of images, but I'm not sure how it would work with scripts. If you copy a script in Scratch, what would happen if you pasted it into another program, like Microsoft Word? And what would happen if you copied some random text in another program and tried to paste it into Scratch?
Scripts are already able to be duplicated (press the button)
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. When you duplicate a script it only duplicates inside of Scratch. But the clipboard is available to all programs. What would happen when another program reads Scratch script data, or Scratch reads data from another program?
Answer, they can't. It just results in a bunch of unreadable characters. Try right clicking a project and open with notepad. That's what it would look like.
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#6 2011-09-09 18:48:12
Re: Importing from Clipboard
cygene wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
cygene wrote:
Scripts are already able to be duplicated (press the button)I don't think you understand what I'm saying. When you duplicate a script it only duplicates inside of Scratch. But the clipboard is available to all programs. What would happen when another program reads Scratch script data, or Scratch reads data from another program?
Answer, they can't. It just results in a bunch of unreadable characters. Try right clicking a project and open with notepad. That's what it would look like.
OK, that answers the first one. But what about the second?
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#7 2011-09-09 19:34:25
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Greenatic wrote:
cygene wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. When you duplicate a script it only duplicates inside of Scratch. But the clipboard is available to all programs. What would happen when another program reads Scratch script data, or Scratch reads data from another program?
Answer, they can't. It just results in a bunch of unreadable characters. Try right clicking a project and open with notepad. That's what it would look like.
OK, that answers the first one. But what about the second?
Maybe there would be a filter to block out text that doesn't include blocks?
And also, a lot of the beginning stuff in notepad is readable.
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#8 2011-09-09 19:48:15
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Greenatic wrote:
cygene wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. When you duplicate a script it only duplicates inside of Scratch. But the clipboard is available to all programs. What would happen when another program reads Scratch script data, or Scratch reads data from another program?Answer, they can't. It just results in a bunch of unreadable characters. Try right clicking a project and open with notepad. That's what it would look like.
OK, that answers the first one. But what about the second?
Maybe, if it was text, scratch would make it a comment, and if it was music, it would save it as a sound file in the project, and if a picture, it would make it into a new costume
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#9 2011-09-09 20:08:55
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Just so you know, you can paste text in the clipboard into scripts. Just click in the box to enter the text and hit Ctrl + V. 
It would be nice to have better copy + paste in the paint editor, but it's not that hard to save an image, and it's better for backup purposes anyway.
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#10 2011-09-09 22:53:48
Re: Importing from Clipboard
Harakou wrote:
Just so you know, you can paste text in the clipboard into scripts. Just click in the box to enter the text and hit Ctrl + V.
It would be nice to have better copy + paste in the paint editor, but it's not that hard to save an image, and it's better for backup purposes anyway.
I think what was intended was to copy whole scripts, not just arguments.
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