Whiskers - a Scratch 2.0 replacement for the Raspberry Pi

NoMod-Programming

Hello Everyone,
I am NoMod-Programming. In the Advanced Topics, I have been working on something called Whiskers which aims to bring Scratch 2.0 capabilities and features to scratch 1.4 (that way it will run on the Pi). The trouble is, though, that not many people visit the advanced topics forum, and instead ask questions about scratch 2.0 for the raspberry pi in this forum (or the connecting to the physical world forum). Therefore, I am linking to the other topic from here to make it easier to locate.

The topic is located here: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/157672.
In order to prevent bugs, I would appreciate it if people who own a raspberry pi would test this out. I HAVE conducted tests of saving, so if your projects don't work with whiskers, you can upload them to the scratch website and they will work there.

To install Whiskers on your raspberry pi (as there is no installer yet), simply follow these instructions:

Download the .image file from the topic that I posted above and rename it to Whiskers.image
Use SUDO and COPY Whiskers.image to /usr/share/scratch
COPY /usr/bin/scratch to /usr/bin/whiskers/
Next, edit /usr/bin/whiskers and change line 11 to say:
```
IMAGE=”/usr/share/scratch/Whiskers.image”
```

To create a shortcut to whiskers, create a file in /home/pi/Desktop/ called whiskers.desktop containing the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=whiskers
Icon=scratch
Terminal=false
Name=Whiskers
Comment= Programming system and content development tool
Categories=Application;Education;Development;
MimeType=application/x-scratch-project

Alternatively, you can type

bash /usr/bin/whiskers

in the terminal to run whiskers.

Last edited by NoMod-Programming (Nov. 14, 2015 03:48:15)

CatsUnited

You might want to change the title, since it may confuse people that they could run Scratch 2.0 on a weak machine.

NoMod-Programming

CatsUnited wrote:
You might want to change the title, since it may confuse people that they could run Scratch 2.0 on a weak machine.

Alright. Changed it.

DrKat123

This doesn't fit here…

Paddle2See

Cool mod! But we don't allow cross-posting in different forum sections. You could make a project and advertise the project in “Show and Tell” if you wanted though

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