Variable Positioning

maxhup010

Hey!

I have been working on a couple of projects that use movable window designs for a UI and have ran into some problems with the large variable showing where a couple of simple blocks could help! (These blocks would act similar to SOME motion blocks)

(These blocks could be under a little dropdown in variables to prevent scaring new scratchers away from variables… or not, whatever)

Generally these blocks could be used to have a better UI that can change whilst still looking neat!

EDIT:
There are many other blocks people are suggesting for variables too!
So i created A MUCH BIGGER topic for you all: containing 7 possible blocks
HERE

Last edited by maxhup010 (May 30, 2016 10:09:41)

Sheep_maker

I think only this block

is necessary, assuming that the center of a variable reader is the top-left corner.

Last edited by Sheep_maker (May 29, 2016 04:20:59)

maxhup010

Sheep_maker wrote:
I think only this block
is necessary, assuming that the center of a variable reader is the top-left corner.

Yep. Agreed

A-KouZ1

Did you mean…? uses single variable for positioning?
woh that's easy workaround,

Well, if you want to read it, just do…

Badly, forY Position, is does not support decimals

Last edited by A-KouZ1 (May 29, 2016 12:53:28)

ivancr72

A-KouZ1 wrote:
Did you mean…? uses single variable for positioning?
woh that's easy workaround,
Well, if you want to read it, just do…
Badly, forY Position, is does not support decimals

No, it's “moving the variable”, not “storing a position on a variable”.

Breck-

Support for these:

maxhup010

Breck- wrote:
Support for these:

Yeah… Whatever blocks, as long as they do the job.

rasmusolle

THOSE… BLOCKS…….. I CAN'T…. LIVE WITHOUT…… THEM…. ANYLONGER……

Austinato

This is a good idea, and I support this.

Scratcher1002

Breck- wrote:
Support for these:

A-KouZ1

ivancr72 wrote:
No, it's “moving the variable”, not “storing a position on a variable”.

Oh, I understand, somewhat like gliding variable thing, right?

Could try it?

maxhup010

A-KouZ1 wrote:
ivancr72 wrote:
No, it's “moving the variable”, not “storing a position on a variable”.

Oh, I understand, somewhat like gliding variable thing, right?
Could try it?

No, ill try explain it in more detail, sorry if i sound patronising, i dont mean to be…

In scratch you can show a variable, but you have to drag it to where you want the information to be displayed… This is a massive limitation if you have multiple different screen layouts as you would have to base your layout around where the variable is… So if you could get a variable to go to a place on the screen (X & Y Coordinates) then you can have a User Interface that can adapt to the situation!

Hope that helps

awesome-llama

Support, but duplicate topic.

A-KouZ1

maxhup010 wrote:
In scratch you can show a variable, but you have to drag it to where you want the information to be displayed… This is a massive limitation if you have multiple different screen layouts as you would have to base your layout around where the variable is… So if you could get a variable to go to a place on the screen (X & Y Coordinates) then you can have a User Interface that can adapt to the situation!

Hope that helps

Ah, I'm understand it now

Yeah, I need this block too,
Support!

anyway,
maybe I can suggest:

nerdiebirdy

bump

Great idea! This would be useful for having a variable you want to appear in different areas of the screen.
Perhaps you could also add these:

j3r0_plays

No support, you can manually move em and use text engines and i know like 1000 workarounds. No.

scratch978654

Congrats on bumping a 4 year old topic.
Semi-support. In fact, 25% support.

You can just set variables to each other and move them to positions, or use your own text.

And if “your palette gets flooded”, then you can use lists. And if that gets flooded too, use say blocks.

A-KouZ1

Still 1000% support.
Text engine is expensive.
Using sprites is the waste of source.
It's better to have it for small projects.

I guess

wasdcoceoe

maxhup010 wrote:
Hey!

I have been working on a couple of projects that use movable window designs for a UI and have ran into some problems with the large variable showing where a couple of simple blocks could help! (These blocks would act similar to SOME motion blocks)

(These blocks could be under a little dropdown in variables to prevent scaring new scratchers away from variables… or not, whatever)

Generally these blocks could be used to have a better UI that can change whilst still looking neat!

EDIT:
There are many other blocks people are suggesting for variables too!
So i created A MUCH BIGGER topic for you all: containing 7 possible blocks
HERE
it's almost useless to me but it will be super useful to new scratchers so i support

cooldude-222

I support the

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