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#1 2011-09-28 15:40:03

alfior73
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Registered: 2011-09-28
Posts: 2

Scratch freezing on me

So was working on the final details of my project and when I was all finished with the programming of my content I went back to add comments. Well after about 6 comments in the program would freeze up and I'd have to wait a couple of minutes for it to catch up.

I'm running a mac on snow leopard which has 3gigs of ram with a 2.2Ghz processor and I'm only running chrome with scratch.

Wondering if anyone has any thoughts or fixes for my situation.

A.

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#2 2011-09-28 19:59:52

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

Re: Scratch freezing on me

Scratch, in its current iteration, has a problem where very large scripts cause the program to lag when you try to modify them because it takes Squeak (the language Scratch is written in) a very long time to render the script. Depending on the length of your scripts and the size of the comment blocks, that could be your problem.

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

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#3 2011-09-28 20:01:59

princessm101
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Registered: 2011-04-05
Posts: 8

Re: Scratch freezing on me

girl you should tell your mom to fix that compurter and you should remake one that is better

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#4 2011-09-30 12:07:18

Nitezscratch
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Registered: 2008-06-20
Posts: 43

Re: Scratch freezing on me

If you ask me, your problem is that you don't have enough RAM, a common problem with Macs.  Upgrade to a PC with at least 4 gigs of RAM.

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#5 2011-10-03 22:48:58

alfior73
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Registered: 2011-09-28
Posts: 2

Re: Scratch freezing on me

Sorry to not reply faster but raced out the door to the genius bar @ the apple store. We did some power of deduction and realized it wasn't the program but my code that was causing the issue. I was a little shocked because my "script" was only 15 actions consisting of changing costumes and waiting .2 seconds.

Anyways so it was in fact along Harakou suggestion. I was writing a comment for every action I had and instead condensed my comments and had no problems afterwards.

@Nitezscratch and princessm101 I've had this mac for 4 years and have never had a problem or a virus. I rather slit my wrists than buy a Windoze machine and to be honest I originally started out on a PC but have been blissfully happy on a mac. Once you go Mac you don't go back!

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