Mapper-from-Canada wrote:

Support!

gdavid04 wrote:

I support this idea!

dewball wrote:

IT would be EASIER for a little kid. I agree with @charles12310 because that's what Scratch is for: Little Kids. We're just hanging out trying to find what is fun, so it is very necessary.

heres how the blocks should look like:

set text color to [] :: pen

Community Guidelines wrote:

Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

dewball wrote:

okay, @I-Iz-A-Litten, please write a project and send it to me using that technique. This is what i want you to say:

“hello, isn't this a very, very, very, very, very, very, very good project”

I-Iz-A-Litten wrote:

Charles12310 wrote:

DaEpikDude wrote:

here have a sprite
oh boy i get to link to my own project

Anyway, no support, there are enough people who've made text writers already, it's not really necessary in my opinion.

Yes, but text writing can be difficult, and the scripts are hard to remember, and even though you can backpack them, it will take more than 1 script.

I see this useful in many purposes including showing a variables amount without showing the variable monitor.

that's just to make your game look pretty, and making games “look pretty” is not a reason for me to support this.

And you don't HAVE to use text writing, you can use variables,

or use the

say []

block like this:

say [c]
wait (0.1) secs
say [ca]
wait (0.1) secs
say [cat]

no support

define say (text :: custom)
set [letter v] to [0]
set [sentence v] to []
repeat (text :: custom)
set [sentence v] to (join (sentence) (letter (letter) of (text :: custom)))
say (sentence)
change [letter v] by (1)
wait (0.05) secs
end

AFNNetworkK12 wrote:

No support. It ruins the purpose and hard work of PTEs

-CodePro- wrote:

…I managed to get 900,000 characters per second with JS on a canvas, while with my text engine in Scratch I managed only around 13,000, which is very slow in comparison…

-CodePro- wrote:

AFNNetworkK12 wrote:

No support. It ruins the purpose and hard work of PTEs

See here:

-CodePro- wrote:

…I managed to get 900,000 characters per second with JS on a canvas, while with my text engine in Scratch I managed only around 13,000, which is very slow in comparison…

If people really want to display lots of information without slowing down their project too much, this would be great.
Plus, not everyone wants to use a text engine.

dewball wrote:

something helpful. There are many text engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher, or a beginner to write that many lines of code! And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want

set the text of [lebel1 v] to []

NilsTheBest wrote:

13,000 cps is still insanely fast. How exactly do PTEs slow down computers though? And what's wrong about text engines? Some of them are very practical.

define say (text)
delete (all v) of [textTosay v]
set [text# v] to [0]
repeat (length of (text))
change [text# v] by (1)
add (letter (text#) of (text)) to [textTosay v]
play sound [voice (optional, and like the kind of voices they use in Undertale) v]
say (textTosay :: list)
end
wait until <not <key [button v] pressed?>>
wait until <key [button v] pressed?>
say []

enderchef wrote:

a simple draw text:
DefineBlock text(s x,s y ,c text){ go to xs x) go to ys y) say(c text) }

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

dewball wrote:

something helpful. There are many text engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher, or a beginner to write that many lines of code! And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want

There are many physics engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.

There are many cloud data encode/decode engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher (okay, to be fair) or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.

There are many platformer bases out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.

There are many 3D engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.

There are many pen engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.

There are many MIDI engines out there, but would you expect a New Scratcher or a beginner to write that many lines of code? And besides, those engines are very specific in what they do, and it would be hard to make it the way you want.