in the sensing category, the “() of ()” block can be used to report the costume name of other sprites. but there is no way for a sprite to get its own costume names. this should be added.

@Wes64test:

IIRC you can work around this by going to a different sprite, setting the sprite you want on that reporter's menu, and then dropping it into the sprite you want - so now it says “costume name of sprite-i-want” within “sprite-i-want”.

Bit tedious, but it works (and avoids making a list of costume names, which has also been suggested as a workaround)…

(Still, it'd be nice just to have the reporter there ready and waiting.)

Suggested here, but closed.

Support anyways.

DadOfMrLog wrote:

@Wes64test:

IIRC you can work around this by going to a different sprite, setting the sprite you want on that reporter's menu, and then dropping it into the sprite you want - so now it says “costume name of sprite-i-want” within “sprite-i-want”.

Bit tedious, but it works (and avoids making a list of costume names, which has also been suggested as a workaround)…

(Still, it'd be nice just to have the reporter there ready and waiting.)

yes, i discovered that. it seems like it is a mistake that a sprite can't access its own costume names though, it it can access other sprites.

Having said that workaround exists, MrLog has just pointed out to me that, of course, it doesn't work for clones, since it refers to the original sprite only.

So, the topic noted above by PZ7 was perhaps closed a bit prematurely and should probably be revisited, with a new push to add an actual “costume name” reporter that will work for clones…

Couldn't you just use costume number…? Or am I not understanding?

I support, because it's up to you to choose the way you want create a program, you can call costume by number of by names, and it could be useful if the name is linked with an action.

By ex:

When event A —> set this variable to “running”
When event B1 —> Switch to costume “running”
When event B2—> Switch to costume n° X


There's already a way to report and use a costume by its name, but the glitch (?) is than you are only able to use it from another sprite, you can't use it from inside the same sprite.

By ex:

SPRITE 1 has 2 costumes called 1A, and 1B SPRITE 2 has 2 costumes called 2A and 2B


Script:
(Sensor block)
If “name of costume is ”2A“ then…
You CAN'T choose If ”name of costume is “1A”

I think you should be able, it would be a good add, to do that, but for now, you just can't.

The Costume name Should already be available!

Support.

Support!

Support

Support!

Or maybe add ‘myself’ as an option in the sensing block?

([costume name v] of [myself v])

similar to

create clone of [myself v]

Support!

support

Actually, you can get the costume name of the sprit by using this:

([costume name v] of (join [sprite] [name] ))

If your sprite name is this; Text
than do something like this:

([costume name v] of (join [Te] [xt] ))

yclee0206 wrote:

Actually, you can get the costume name of the sprit by using this:

([costume name v] of (join [sprite] [name] ))

Unfortunately, as I mention above, that doesn't work for clones - that sensor block will only return the costume name of the original sprite, not the clones themselves.

It's not that hard to work around it for clones, though, by having the original sprite make a list of costume names and then the clones can use that along with “costume #”. I made a demo project for this a while back: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/21427539/


Having said all of that, here's the REAL surprise…

The “costume name” block *DOES* exist already internally within Scratch! However, it simply isn't available in the block palette, so you need to either hack the JSON to put it into your project, or get it from a project which already includes it.

Here is such a project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23639677/#editor

Enjoy!

Did you mean

(costume name :: looks)

Workaround

([Costume name v] of [wanted sprite (really)  v])

koopa_land wrote:

Did you mean

(costume name :: looks)

Workaround

([Costume name v] of [wanted sprite (really)  v])

Read the above posts, that workaround doesn't work for clones which is why this was suggested.

No support because of-

yclee0206 wrote:

Actually, you can get the costume name of the sprit by using this:

([costume name v] of (join [sprite] [name] ))

Or, if that doesn't work for you, then the

(costume #)

block should suffice. But, if you really need the costume name instead of the number, an index list with the names of every costume matched to the costume number will do the job just as well.

Technically workaroundable:

set [costume name v] to (item (costume #) of [costume names v]