Scrap v008

A small release containing some quick (but breaking!) changes to the library format and a couple bug fixes/tweaks.

Changes and Features

• (6547972 – @towerofnix) Merge displayName and id block library properties.

  • The prefix is now $$name:, not $$id$display name:.
  • The name property is used for both identification and display (so $$Scrap:cool block will display as (Scrap) cool block).
  • Library .json files now contain a name property; the displayName and id properties are gone.
  • Old library .json files are broken, since they don't have a name property.

• (d259653 – @towerofnix) Remove 'duplicate' from script browser block menus.

• (d259653 – @towerofnix) Remove 'add comment' from all block menus.

• (5da8c1f – @towerofnix) Don't show the "help" tool in the top bar.

Scrap v007

Though this only contains one new feature, it's arguably a Big Release, since custom block libraries are a fairly large new feature. (Some quick changes were made to the information here to represent changes in v008.)

Changes and Features

• (#55 – @towerofnix) Custom block libraries!

  • Custom block libraries are little packages of custom blocks. They're portable; you can save libraries in plain-text JSON files, and send the file to another computer or an online download or even just to another sprite in your project.
  • To make a "library block", simply make a custom block and add a magical prefix to the beginning of the first label.
    • The prefix will look something like $$scrap$Scrap: $$Scrap:. If you have a custom block whose label is $$Foo Library:rainbows, the custom block will display as "(Foo Library) rainbows".
      • scrap is the library identifier.
      • Scrap is the library display name. If you have a custom block whose label is $$foo$Foo Library:rainbows, the custom block will display as "(Foo Library) rainbows".
      • All custom blocks in a library must have the same prefix.
      • (Please convince me that it's either a good or bad idea to make the display name and identifier be one and the same. If that were the case, we'd have a simpler (i.e. easier to use) prefix format, and I can't see the benefits of them being separate.) Okay I'm convinced!
  • Once you've made some custom blocks for your library, you can export the library to a .json file by right-clicking on any of the library's custom blocks (in the More Blocks palette) and selecting "export library" from the menu.
  • To import a library .json file, click on the "Import a Library" button in the More Blocks palette.
  • Custom block libraries are backwards and forwards compatible with Scratch, as usual. (After all, they're just sets of custom blocks with an identical prefix!)
  • Magical git-like versioning is not a thing. But exported libraries are .json files; so you can probably do a git diff on two exported library files.

• (a0010dc – @towerofnix) ReadStream tokenizer output is now displayed in the "show spec" menu option on any block.

Scrap v006

So v005 wasn't actually the final update for Scrap!

This update isn't huge, but a few new ideas were gotten and noted; maybe check them out if, if you're interested: user-made script libraries, and saving editor scrolling positions.

Changes and Features

• (#49 – @towerofnix) Preview mode!

  • This creates a "preview mode" which "locks" the stage, preventing sprites from being dragged as they would be in edit mode.
  • Note that "can drag in player" sprites can still be dragged.
  • To use it, check the "Preview mode" toggle in the edit menu!

• (#46; d56e3a4 – @towerofnix) List blocks are always shown.

  • Even if you don't have any lists created already!
  • Just like how variable blocks are also always shown.

• We're up to date with LLK/scratch-flash again! That means any changes between v442 and v446 in the scratch-flash repository now exist in scrap-mod as well.

  • Though they're mostly translation changes.

Bugs Fixed

• (#44; 87e19b5 – @towerofnix) Removed wewlads.

Scrap v005

Most likely the final update for Scrap.

Changes and Features

• (#42 – @liam4) Broadcast variables.
  • To use, the "Add Scrap Library" button must first be pressed (this adds the required custom blocks).
  • In the More Blocks palette, use the "set broadcast []'s var to []" block.
  • With a broadcast hat selected, its broadcast variables will be visible in the Data palette.

Bugs Fixed

• (a3abf35 – @liam4) Script browser block menus operate on original blocks

Scrap v004

It's been a while, but there's quite a number of new things in this update.

And no, I haven't been working on the mod all this time. Only for the last two days. And half of the features were done by @NanaLan! 🎉

Changes and Features

• (#23 – @NanaLan) New color input for custom blocks.
  • Colors are represented as integers – if you convert them to hexadecimal you'll get something like FF0000 for solid red, FF7700 for orange, etc (as well as alpha/opacity, too – 77000000 for semi-transparent black).
    • They should be put into blocks that expect actual color inputs, so , not .
• (#27 – @NanaLan) New menu inputs for custom blocks.
  • These work with any built-in menu; no custom menus.. yet!?
  • With help from @djsrv
• (#27 – @NanaLan) Text can be typed in any input; blocks can be dropped anywhere (essentially, hacked blocks)!
  • Undeniably handy for tabbing through inputs.
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• (#26 – @NanaLan) No-refresh blocks are be labeled as such in their block definition hat.
• (3dd5b10, d4e9913) Script positions now get restored to their original position when switching to another script (or sprite), and when saving.
  • No more scripts being all placed at the top-left of the scripting area!
  • This is certainly an improvement to before, but it's not perfect; more discussion here.

Bugs Fixed

• (#17) Script Browser isn't hidden when viewing project in fullscreen
• (#18) Conditional operators relabel w/ %s, not %n
• (#15) Export to Scrap.swf instead of Scratch.swf
  • (#28) Makefile added
  • (#30) Makefile removed

One other thing

I'm also working on this super secret feature where you can have variables specific to each broadcast which makes things more modularized and whatever. I actually programmed something too! It wasn't all Alex! ..It's just not finished.

Scrap v003

For this type of thing, a numbered release (vABC) works much better than versions (x.y.z)..

Changes and Features

• (#2) When dragged out of the script browser, some hat blocks will turn into the blocks that activate them! (See a video?)
  • Custom blocks(!) turn into their respective caller blocks
  • "When I start as a clone" turns into "create clone of myself"
  • "When I receive" turns into "broadcast"
  • "When backdrop switches to" turns into "switch backdrop to"
• You can quickly relabel broadcast blocks so that they have "and wait" or not (handy if you'd prefer a "broadcast and wait" instead of a "broadcast" when you drag out from a "when I receive" script browser block). (#11)
• When you define a new custom block (or edit one), that custom block will be selected in the scripting area.

Bugs Fixed

• (#12) Dropping blocks in large projects lags
• (#13) [new] "When I receive" can be relabeled with "no wait"

Scrap v1.0.1

(Mostly) a bug fix release.

Changes

The script browser updates more frequently (whenever the block palette is updated).

Bugs fixed

• (#1) Can't delete scripts
• (#3) Dropping block from scripting area into/below another block doesn't work properly

Scrap v1.0.0

The initial version of Scrap!

• First version of the Script Browser. Browse my commits to see the horrors I had to go through before coming up with a decent way of implementing this.
• Sorted variables, lists and custom block palettes/menus.
• Saving/loading actually works! (Host it on a server.)