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This was inspired by Chalkmarrow's delightful project "Picture Handles". I loved the way the photos could be moved and scaled but I wanted a simpler interface.
To move the pictures, drag from near the photo's center. To scale and rotate, drag from near the photo's edge.
This project can easily be scaled to use more photo's, just import them as a sprite and copy the code from one of the other photo's.
There is some odd behaviour that shows up when the photos are overlapped. Despite bringing the last sprite to the front, there seems to be some sort of intrinsic order occasionally resulting in the photo from behind being selected. I would appreciate help with this "feature".
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This is awesome!-true!
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As you probably noticed with your fixit account, I made a record player thingy which also has draggable rotation. (link to project)
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Cool!
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How do you make a sprite draggable in an enclosed space without the "go to mouse-pointer" script?
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I would have used that...but I didn't want the center of the picture jumping to the mouse...instead, what I was looking for was if the mouse moved one inch, the picture should move one inch. So I used a "Go To X,Y" block where I continually compute the new X and Y based on the mouse movement relative to the original position of the picture. Overly complex? Maybe, but I like the way it came out!
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You Made PRIVATETERR!!! O MY GOSH! AND YOU COMMENTED ON ME!! COULD YOU GIVE ME MORE SUGGESTIONS AND TIPS?
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http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/250 found this site via click on bbc website.. its quite intresting.. but this video is intresting..
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um just a slightly amusing link.. http://centripetalnotion.com/sort/animation/ 2.5 tons of playdoh used in a stopmotion animation!!!
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http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://fusionanomaly.net/naumgabolinearconstructionno2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fusionanomaly.net/naumgabo.html&h=512&w=321&sz=23&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=6dnGjgxYvsWcyM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnaum%2Bgabo%26gbv%3D2%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den link to site about constructivist artist (now deceased) naum gabo.. string art to another level..anyway he incorporated his engineering experience and knowledge.. especially maths into his art.. saw one of his sculptures once at the tate.. they are quite beautiful.. won't disturb you again..
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hi came across a website you might find intresting.. http://www.interact10ways.com/usa/index.asp its specifically an interactive arts site.
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Stretchy Pics !
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I need help for scratch progect I cant put photos in!
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hey is there any sprites that i can draw? thanks! plz just give me 1!
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It ok but I like your other stuff better. Try adding a object of the game. ^=^
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http://www.axisweb.org/seCVWK.aspx?ARTISTID=3368 just a link to a selection of photographic constructed artworks which you might find intresting.. judging by the some of the coastal landscapes you have included in the project..
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No...the comment comming from a thirteen-year old boy. LOL.
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lolololololololol
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Who's a thirteen-year-old boy? Certainly not me!
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This is incredibly innovative...coming from a thirteen-year-old boy.
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Hey paddle2see do you want to join my New project club Exploading Planets? tell me if you and if you do i'll tell you the details ok.
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Hi, Paddle2See. Nobody can explain me why the site access is forbidden. (I've accessed it with no problems). So the manual are now also in http://turma5g.googlepages.com/Explorando_o_ScratchGP.pdf If the problem remains, please let me know an email adress to send you the manual.
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thanks for checking it out and i've heard of visual basci(i think) but not that other one but i get your name now, and i've been canoeing at turkyrun (IN national state park we went camping there) (we livein IN. so it didn't take us long to get there
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this is cool! see my projects
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look at my projects please! this is really cool to.
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Wow...this is possibly one of the most innovative Scratch projects I've ever seen.
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You to ^^
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Ericr - That's obvious! Which way will make my project work? The answer is on Mouse Down! However, that is just my opinion and I am definately biased right now. If you could make the Touching Mouse Pointer *not* trigger when the sprite is hidden by another sprite I would be happy too. Maybe this is something that needs to be discussed in the Forum.
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so, re: the bug discussed below, there is indeed an inconsistency ("when clicked" triggers on mouse-down off-line vs on mouse-up on-line). we'll look into fixing it! We have to decide which one is right... any votes?
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I did another one and ran into the same problems as you: (link to project)
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...and maybe I should've added your cat...
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I guess i missed your moustache in the reward...
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Here's your reward! (link to project)
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My Project “Puzzle” was working pretty well at home but it didn’t work on line. I give up to understand it. Then, I saw this Project of yours and I looked inside. Back to my “Puzzle” I replaced all the “When sprite clicked” by “When flag”, “forever”, “if mouse down” as I had seen here, and now it’s working online!!!! Thanks Padle.
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wow!
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Works perfectly. This project should definitely be the prototype for anything that involves manipulation of sprites on the screen.
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Fantastic improvement. I was facinated with chalk marrow's project, but this blew me away! Well done!
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I like that boat of yours...
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Way cool, what a nice improvement to chalkmarrow's already beautiful design. this project almost feels like "morphic" itself! I especially like the reuse-factor.
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Nice! On another subject altogether; Did you build your boat? Looks similar to kits that I've been eyeing for years...
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Ericr - I took your advice and rewrote the project using "When Clicked" and it worked great offline in Production Mode. However, when I uploaded it, it didn't work at all. It appears that a "When Clicked" event is triggered on Mouse Down in the off-line environment but not until Mouse Up on-line. Since all my code was written for a Drag operation, that kind of screws things up.
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For more on Tangrams, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram
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Forest - Tangrams are a set of shapes (triangles, rectangles, more?). You are given the silhouete of an assembly and are challenged to find the arrangement of shapes that would yield the assembly.
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Ericr - Well, that explains why Chalkmarrows project works; he is using the When Sprite Clicked hat! It would be great if you can fix it so that "touching mouse pointer" only fires when the sprite is the topmost sprite. If not, I can probably come up with a work-around now that I know what the problem is. Thanks for your help!
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hm... my fix is not working on the web! and I have to go to class! more later, hopefully...
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okay! the problem was that "touching mouse pointer?" is true even if the sprite is below another sprite. So, the layering is ignored in that case, and all sprites that are in the spot clicked on get the event. It looks like you were trying to avoid race conditions using a global flag to avoid a sprite being selected when somebody else was already selected, but the problem is that the sprite who wins the race is determined by the (fixed) order in which sprites pass around control, not by the layer order. Hope that made sense, it's hard to explain. So, at first I was playing around with making a way to keep track of layer numbers... but it looks like it would be complicated (especially the need to determine, of the set of sprites receiving a click, who is on the highest layer). BUT fortunately, I remembered that the "when sprite clicked" hat does NOT have this problem- only the sprite on the top layer gets that event. So using that instead should fix the problem. I'll post a fixed version shortly...
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beautiful! Scratch can be a prototyping tool for user interface design! I reproduced the layer order bug you mentioned and I'll try to look into it...
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I am feeling a bit thick today.. what is a tangram? I like the scenic photo shots.
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A Tangram project is a great idea! I was thinking that this interface would work well for collage building but I hadn't thought of Tangrams. Anybody want to go for it?
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Actually, you may want to issue a challenge for people to turn this into a Tangram project. A variety of age ranges could probably do it, to varying degrees. Nice canoe-cam shot, also. Looks peaceful.
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Excellent! Way better. I was thinking of making a Tangram project that used this type of movement (minus the scaling), but I would probably use your project as a basis instead. And I had the same issue with overlapping sprites. ..
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wow thats cool
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Nice.
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