the current one obviously is just picking random messages to display, as evident by the message “loading emojis…”
we need a percentage or a bar or.. something!

agree, scratch 2 did this

Support. It would be nice to know how much of the project is left to load, especially for larger projects.

I'm not sure if it's possible. Project loading is done in scratch-vm and to send that data to scratch-gui (where the message is displayed) a lot of internal events would be fired. This would slow down a bit.

apple502j wrote:

I'm not sure if it's possible. Project loading is done in scratch-vm and to send that data to scratch-gui (where the message is displayed) a lot of internal events would be fired. This would slow down a bit.

This is interesting. Assuming it's true, I'm curious as to whether people would rather have an accurate/detailed loading screen or a faster loading screen.

Za-Chary wrote:

apple502j wrote:

I'm not sure if it's possible. Project loading is done in scratch-vm and to send that data to scratch-gui (where the message is displayed) a lot of internal events would be fired. This would slow down a bit.

This is interesting. Assuming it's true, I'm curious as to whether people would rather have an accurate/detailed loading screen or a faster loading screen.

I know!

Make it optional.

By default it'll be the faster, comedic one, but people can always switch to the enhanced loading screen through their settings.

ResExsention wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

apple502j wrote:

I'm not sure if it's possible. Project loading is done in scratch-vm and to send that data to scratch-gui (where the message is displayed) a lot of internal events would be fired. This would slow down a bit.

This is interesting. Assuming it's true, I'm curious as to whether people would rather have an accurate/detailed loading screen or a faster loading screen.

I know!

Make it optional.

By default it'll be the faster, comedic one, but people can always switch to the enhanced loading screen through their settings.

This seems like a bright idea. Would this be hard to implement?

EZ-Games wrote:

ResExsention wrote:

I know!

Make it optional.

By default it'll be the faster, comedic one, but people can always switch to the enhanced loading screen through their settings.

This seems like a bright idea. Would this be hard to implement?

We'd have to have settings.

Project settings, that is.

How about as a context menu, click while loading and choose:

• normal loading screen
  
• detailed loading screen
  

minor-edit wrote:

EZ-Games wrote:

ResExsention wrote:

I know!

Make it optional.

By default it'll be the faster, comedic one, but people can always switch to the enhanced loading screen through their settings.

This seems like a bright idea. Would this be hard to implement?

We'd have to have settings.

Account settings would work, right?

EZ-Games wrote:

Account settings would work, right?

If it was loading slowly while looking at the project, we'd want to change it.

Example: https://apple502j.github.io/loading-status-example/
https://apple502j.github.io/loading-status-example/#322341152
The lag was much shorter than I expected, maybe we can do this? (but I am sure inflating Gobo would be nice as an easter egg.)