Well, here I go.

In a lot of projects I wish there was a text output that would be like the “say” or “think” block, but it would have no speech bubble or thought bubble line - it would just be the same-looking box, hovering near it. This would allow for a lot of possibilities, including…

*Mouse-over descriptions!
*Easy text output on the screen!
*More customizability with the blocks!

Please support this!

Mee!!! I have actually wanted this for a long time.

I had a very similar idea, but also very different. Different formats would be nice, especially if you could change it to your liking (probably a bit too difficult to implement, though).

Anyhow, support!

Or a print text () at x () y () block.

Yeah. I don't really like the say block that much.

turkey3 wrote:

Or a print text () at x () y () block.

or maybe a print () at x: () y: () to allow for reporters to be inputted?

^ That one sounds the best, so there's no confusion over the two types of “say” blocks.

I have always wanted this since when I figured that out it Scratch 2.0!

turkey3 wrote:

Or a print text () at x () y () block.

^^ I like that idea

Guys lets stay on topic.

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I like your ideas! They are very cool.
I have been waiting for [say for () seconds without start] for a long time.
Cool though.
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You can show the contents of a variable and have rather long texts there. The speech bubbles sometimes truncates the text when you run in full screen mode. Then I have a variable shown as a subtext line at the bottom with the full text that should have gone into the speech bubble.

Examples:
http://scratch.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/11562532/ #Scratch Sound Quiz#
http://scratch.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/11559365/ #Scratch Vector Costumes Quiz#

mobluse wrote:

You can show the contents of a variable and have rather long texts there. The speech bubbles sometimes truncates the text when you run in full screen mode. Then I have a variable shown as a subtext line at the bottom with the full text that should have gone into the speech bubble.

That's not the point. They want a say block, but without the speech bubble, so it's just text.

I think the “print text () at x: () y: ()” would be good.

Glad to see some supporters.

This thing got lost to the 3rd page there though… Bump!

I made a “print text at x: () y: () font size ()” block here.

turkey3 wrote:

I made a “print text at x: () y: () font size ()” block here.

I like that block! Maybe an option to resize the text box, or is that too complicated? Maybe, once you have placed the block it shows the text box up on the stage, where you can resize it.

cheeseeater wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

I made a “print text at x: () y: () font size ()” block here.

I like that block! Maybe an option to resize the text box, or is that too complicated? Maybe, once you have placed the block it shows the text box up on the stage, where you can resize it.

The text box just explains how to use it the actual block is inside the project, and the font I use is Heveltica. I used stamping to stamp the letters down. Click on the link and check out the block inside the project. The blue box is just for explaining it and a better thumbnail.

Also, I couldn't resize text afterwards because I used stamping. I could in a complicated script, but I just wanted it to simply stamp text at a location of a certain size.

turkey3 wrote:

cheeseeater wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

I made a “print text at x: () y: () font size ()” block here.

I like that block! Maybe an option to resize the text box, or is that too complicated? Maybe, once you have placed the block it shows the text box up on the stage, where you can resize it.

The text box just explains how to use it the actual block is inside the project, and the font I use is Heveltica. I used stamping to stamp the letters down. Click on the link and check out the block inside the project. The blue box is just for explaining it and a better thumbnail.

Also, I couldn't resize text afterwards because I used stamping. I could in a complicated script, but I just wanted it to simply stamp text at a location of a certain size.

Whoops!

Here's something that might be a bit easier http://scratch.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/11629709/

All you have to do is make a sprite with the text on it!

I can do this in HTML

I can do it in Scratch with the same methods

But this would be easier

Support!

Support!