In Scratch 3, text inputs have become round like numerical inputs. Now they can only be distinguished from numerical inputs by trying to type in them (and by their position.) Why was this done? Now, with the absence of Help, it's unlikely a new Scratcher will ever realise <, =, and > can be applied to strings. The ability to add number inputs to custom blocks has been removed entirely. This wasn't necessary, but it is nice.

Also, why were the editable dropdowns used in the list blocks that take indices as inputs (and a few others, but I think those were all replaced with specialised inputs or ordinary dropdowns) removed? These made the list blocks easier to use and understand, and

delete (all v) of [list v]

has been replaced with a seperate block!

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No support. I'd rather have all the input boxes a uniform style, since just looking at them mismatched looks awful.

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ResExsention wrote:

No support. I'd rather have all the input boxes a uniform style, since just looking at them mismatched looks awful.

Why would you expect the inputs to all look the same? (And they don't; the Scratch Team would never get rid of dropdowns and Boolean inputs.)

ResExsention wrote:

No support. I'd rather have all the input boxes a uniform style, since just looking at them mismatched looks awful.

Yeah, I agree.

Would you stop bumping this topic please, Jonathan50?

--Snowball-- wrote:

Would you stop bumping this topic please, Jonathan50?

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Semi-Support, I think it would be nice for them to be different, though I think a box like before is too sharp for the design that they have now

[]::grey//too sharp for text input
()::grey//too round for text input

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

--Snowball-- wrote:

ResExsention wrote:

No support. I'd rather have all the input boxes a uniform style, since just looking at them mismatched looks awful.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree too.

--Snowball-- wrote:

Would you stop bumping this topic please, Jonathan50?

I don't see why. (Also, sorry, I responded to ResExtension's objection by editing my post, so you might have missed it.)

Amending my prior suggestion. Sure, I would really like to keep a uniform style for the text boxes, but I also agree that the booleans and dropdowns can stay. Maybe keeps Scratch uniform whilst allowing people to differentiate.

Support, as it's extremely useful to be able to know what inputs are and aren't accepted for any given field.

StrangeMagic32 wrote:

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

Funnily enough, in an early version of Scratch 3.0, that's exactly what they did! But in the end, before release, they ended up making text inputs look just like number inputs. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing having two different shaped inputs was kind of confusing to new users who were just learning to use Scratch, and they wanted to get rid of that confusion by just making number and text inputs look the same.

_nix wrote:

StrangeMagic32 wrote:

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

Funnily enough, in an early version of Scratch 3.0, that's exactly what they did! But in the end, before release, they ended up making text inputs look just like number inputs. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing having two different shaped inputs was kind of confusing to new users who were just learning to use Scratch, and they wanted to get rid of that confusion by just making number and text inputs look the same.

oh, hmm, well then I guess maybe it's not the best xD

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_nix wrote:

StrangeMagic32 wrote:

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

Funnily enough, in an early version of Scratch 3.0, that's exactly what they did! But in the end, before release, they ended up making text inputs look just like number inputs. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing having two different shaped inputs was kind of confusing to new users who were just learning to use Scratch, and they wanted to get rid of that confusion by just making number and text inputs look the same.

But then it can be confusing in the way that someone might try to input some text into an input that only accepts numbers

CatsUnited wrote:

_nix wrote:

StrangeMagic32 wrote:

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

Funnily enough, in an early version of Scratch 3.0, that's exactly what they did! But in the end, before release, they ended up making text inputs look just like number inputs. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing having two different shaped inputs was kind of confusing to new users who were just learning to use Scratch, and they wanted to get rid of that confusion by just making number and text inputs look the same.

But then it can be confusing in the way that someone might try to input some text into an input that only accepts numbers

Yeah, I was concerned about that too.

But isn't everything on Scratch a multipurpose variable? Data types are nonexistent in Scratch, right? Strings and numbers are the same?

ResExsention wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

_nix wrote:

StrangeMagic32 wrote:

Maybe just round the edges of the rectangles?

Funnily enough, in an early version of Scratch 3.0, that's exactly what they did! But in the end, before release, they ended up making text inputs look just like number inputs. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing having two different shaped inputs was kind of confusing to new users who were just learning to use Scratch, and they wanted to get rid of that confusion by just making number and text inputs look the same.

But then it can be confusing in the way that someone might try to input some text into an input that only accepts numbers

Yeah, I was concerned about that too.

But isn't everything on Scratch a multipurpose variable? Data types are nonexistent in Scratch, right? Strings and numbers are the same?

While that's true that you don't have to worry about stuff like integers or floats, there's a big difference between numbers and text

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