Hi there scratchers!!

I had an idea that would really make programming with lot's of sprites a lot easier. It would be if you could put several sprites into a “group” and if you clicked on the “group” it would show you the sprites inside of the group.

Add a post if you agree or disagree

Cheers!
-64yes

Only problem is that it seems pretty unneeded. No support (for now)

This has been suggested a lot…
I don't know if I should support.

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I was just fixing that

AonymousGuy wrote:

This has been suggested a lot…
I don't know if I should support.

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Support. I could group my parallax scrolling sprites together.

Sonickyle wrote:

Support. I could group my parallax scrolling sprites together.

Thanks for your support!!

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I just use clones and local variables to make each clone behave differently

Grouping is a necessary thing. In fact, it is found universally in almost all programming languages. Let's say you wanted a sprite to behave a certain way when it touched a large amount of different objects. You could put all those objects in a group, and just have the sprite do it's thing when it comes into contact with any sprite in that group. In most programming languages out there, you can make all the sprites in a group do a certain thing, just by selecting that group. It would be awesome if you could do this in Scratch. There's lots of ways groups could come in handy.
You can almost achieve groups using lists. If you could say “ if touching ANY in list so-and-so” and have the list be full of names of sprites, then you could have a group. Sadly enough, there is no “any” option in the current list blocks we have.
I support the grouping idea!

um.. isn't it weird that there are 3 duplicate topics, but by different users?

Penguin9090_new wrote:

um.. isn't it weird that there are 3 duplicate topics, but by different users?

There are probably loads more than 3. You didn't really need to bump all of them though.

Support this one since it is the biggest of the ones that have been bumped.

Support!

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If one could simply assign a sprite to a group and use when touching group —> do this ….

Then I would already be able to use my shadow code to make a game.

As it stands right now, I cannot make a game with it because clones are very limited and probably incompatible with the way I have it coded.
I would need to completely re-do it all from the start to consider clones and then it would limit me in other ways.

Currently there can only be one platform unless I go into each and every single sprite and place code there AND modify the coding already in
place adding "If touching This Or This Or This Or This Or This Or This Or This Or This; Do you see how repetitive that can be?

Programming is meant to help make tasks faster, not to be a burden. And Scratch is meant to teach programming in a Fun way and so should remove any unneeded repetition to prevent people from becoming bored with it. Features like this being missing are what prevents kids from making anything more complex than a colouring contest or still pictures or even worse, troll projects. The goal should be to make the complicated simple by removing the barriers of the education process. And Scratch would become a more authentic way of coding since grouping can be done in every programming language as far as I know, yet for some reason is currently impossible within the confines of Scratch.

So basically classes? Eh, I'd probably want this because it'd make a lot of things easier with sprites and could allow for one script, more than one Sprite executing same script.

yes pls

Yes support please

1234abcdcba4321 wrote:

Only problem is that it seems pretty unneeded. No support (for now)

UNNEEDED? This was one of the things people complaining about. Look at the 2nd and 4th suggestion on what not to reply about on a suggestion topic: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/215499/

Please state why it's unneeded. Maybe it isn't necessary to some users, but chances are, it might be for others. I'm not trying to change your vote.

Charles12310 wrote:

1234abcdcba4321 wrote:

Only problem is that it seems pretty unneeded. No support (for now)

UNNEEDED? This was one of the things people complaining about. Look at the 2nd and 4th suggestion on what not to reply about on a suggestion topic: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/215499/

Please state why it's unneeded. Maybe it isn't necessary to some users, but chances are, it might be for others. I'm not trying to change your vote.

That was posted 2013, long before that topic was created.

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