Greenduck54 wrote:

jji10 wrote:

I thought there already was an unofficial one?

cub56 wrote:

“Why not just use someone else's converter?”
The reliability/safety of a lot of online sb2 to exe converters isn't really that confirmed, users may find it hard to tell whether they contain malware and I've tried several which haven't worked.

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Porting_Scratch_Projects#Scratch_online_to_EXE
Looks like this is the official one; it's on the wiki.

Yep, that is addressed in the OP

jji10 wrote:

Greenduck54 wrote:

jji10 wrote:

I thought there already was an unofficial one?

cub56 wrote:

“Why not just use someone else's converter?”
The reliability/safety of a lot of online sb2 to exe converters isn't really that confirmed, users may find it hard to tell whether they contain malware and I've tried several which haven't worked.

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Porting_Scratch_Projects#Scratch_online_to_EXE
Looks like this is the official one; it's on the wiki.

I really don't like that one though, especially since it shows the Scratch gui, which goes against the things in the op (It makes it look unprofessional). (I mean, just make all when flag clicked blocks activate when starting the app)

jji10 wrote:

Greenduck54 wrote:

jji10 wrote:

I thought there already was an unofficial one?

cub56 wrote:

“Why not just use someone else's converter?”
The reliability/safety of a lot of online sb2 to exe converters isn't really that confirmed, users may find it hard to tell whether they contain malware and I've tried several which haven't worked.

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Porting_Scratch_Projects#Scratch_online_to_EXE
Looks like this is the official one; it's on the wiki.

Plus, what about mac and chrome users? What if someone wants to put thier project on google play?

This isn't so simple.
Scratch projects don't run themselves, they are interpreted by the project player.

And it's still not that simple.
The code for the project player doesn't just run from your OS either.
These scripts are then run inside Adobe Flash Player/Adobe Air.

So to convert a Scratch project to an exe, you need to bundle the scratch project with not only the project player, but also a version of adobe's runtime environment.

Then this leads to even more problems; when you distribute this project, you're also distributing other's code under different licences, you could be breaking the law.

And yet another issue with having to include lots of other software would be the file sizes.

jji10 wrote:

I thought there already was an unofficial one?

Junebeetle made a sb to swf converter, and converting swf to exe is easy to come by.

Sigton

Scratch allows you to sell your projects in the terms of use. How would this be done if that was the case @Sigton?

Junebeetle made a sb to swf converter, and converting swf to exe is easy to come by.

Forgive my ignorance, if this is used would the licensing be okay?

Cub56 wrote:

Scratch allows you to sell your projects in the terms of use. How would this be done if that was the case @Sigton?

Doubt you'd be allowed to sell the software belonging to LLK and Adobe

Cub56 wrote:

Junebeetle made a sb to swf converter, and converting swf to exe is easy to come by.

Forgive my ignorance, if this is used would the licensing be okay?

It's still bundling your project with the project player, so it's still not just your code.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

Cub56 wrote:

Scratch allows you to sell your projects in the terms of use. How would this be done if that was the case @Sigton?

Doubt you'd be allowed to sell the software belonging to LLK and Adobe

Sigton

What if you gave it for free, would that be allowed? Scratch uses Adobe and it seems fine to use that and share projects for free (or is it Scratch that has the licence?)

Cub56 wrote:

What if you gave it for free, would that be allowed? Scratch uses Adobe and it seems fine to use that and share projects for free (or is it Scratch that has the licence?)

I think Scratch 2 is under a GNU licence? Not sure, but whatever it says in the licence governs if/how you can distribute it. Same with Adobe's software.

Scratch doesn't distribute Adobe's software, which is why you can't run projects if you don't have flash. You need to download your own copy of flash from Adobe; Scratch doesn't give it to you.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

This isn't so simple.
Scratch projects don't run themselves, they are interpreted by the project player.

And it's still not that simple.
The code for the project player doesn't just run from your OS either.
These scripts are then run inside Adobe Flash Player/Adobe Air.

So to convert a Scratch project to an exe, you need to bundle the scratch project with not only the project player, but also a version of adobe's runtime environment.

Then this leads to even more problems; when you distribute this project, you're also distributing other's code under different licences, you could be breaking the law.

And yet another issue with having to include lots of other software would be the file sizes.

jji10 wrote:

I thought there already was an unofficial one?

Junebeetle made a sb to swf converter, and converting swf to exe is easy to come by.

Sigton

Greenduck54 wrote:

Semi support! I'd like to see an actual .sb2 to .exe converter, even though it may be better to wait for 3.0 for suggesting this (since 3.0 will most likely be the official version by the end of 2018 and (should) also have a seperate file type (.sb3?)).

3.0 will run on HTML, so this would get rid of most of the problems

Greenduck54 wrote:

3.0 will run on HTML, so this would get rid of most of the problems

It will indeed, yet another reason to abandon flash.

Sigton

This topic has been made for ages but it's my topic and I'll bump it since the suggestion could be quite important.

I'm not going to support this because I run Linux. I think we should be able to get BIN files for Linux as well as whatever macOS uses.

python_megapixel wrote:

I'm not going to support this because I run Linux. I think we should be able to get BIN files for Linux as well as whatever macOS uses.

How about conversion to .exe as well as BIN and Mac executables as well? Just a way to make .sb2 into a standalone executable format.

python_megapixel wrote:

I'm not going to support this because I run Linux. I think we should be able to get BIN files for Linux as well as whatever macOS uses.

Same. No Support if it will only be available for windows.

Cub56 wrote:

python_megapixel wrote:

I'm not going to support this because I run Linux. I think we should be able to get BIN files for Linux as well as whatever macOS uses.

How about conversion to .exe as well as BIN and Mac executables as well? Just a way to make .sb2 into a standalone executable format.

Sounds good.

i agree about the having a direct exe export for scratch projects also it would be nice for mac users to have a direct .jar or .app download

What about chrome Os?

Can we make scratch project to pp that can run on Chrome os?

Hex4Nova wrote:

MathlyCat wrote:

So how about catering to non-Windows users? Because: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

And the fact that Linux (even though it has a free utility) and OS X cannot run .exe's.

I think there's an emulator called WINE that can run .exe files on non-Windows OSes. Still a nice suggestion, don't get me wrong on that.

WINE is originaly an acronym for wine is not an emulator

I support, although if this would be able to work cross-platform, i would actually use @DadOfMrLog or @TheLogFather (I can't remember which one)'s OS detector so that it converts into the right format