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#1 2009-01-10 07:39:06
Scratch to C/VB/C++/ObjC Translator
Maybe someone *cough* *MIT* *cough* could develop a Scratch translator, so that one could export their scratch projects to .app/.exe programs?
First you would create a scratch to text program, then suitably edit it and so, and then run it through an open source inbuilt BASIC/C compiler. FB^3 have done this with C, so maybe this could be a possibility in Scratch??
If one were translating in a mac to C/Cpp/ObjC, then you could open the file in Xcode and create a Nib file for it, and putting the scratchfile in a Custom View. As mentioned previously, Future BASIC have done a translator, which translates their code into C, and then opens that C Xcode project.
I would certainly like to export .app files, so I can share them with my friends, and If one were making a C/ObjC/Cpp/Windows/ application, then I could embed the Custom quartz view into it.
I'm not sure about windoze, as it doesn't seem to have a standard IDE. VB, Perhaps?
Last edited by djmoomoo (2009-01-10 07:39:30)
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#3 2009-02-08 22:23:32
Re: Scratch to C/VB/C++/ObjC Translator
You might be interested in the DiscScratchr that JSO and Jens have worked on:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5468
And a little easter egg that might be of interest. If you hold the shift key when clicking the Extra menu you'll find you can export a copy of all the code blocks from your project in a text format. If you are up for creating a compiler that can translate from this text into another language let us know!
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#5 2009-02-17 11:10:16
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Re: Scratch to C/VB/C++/ObjC Translator
here is a windows single file one http://www.chirp.scratchr.org/
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