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- MDCCCLXVII
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
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- Zoomer_X
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
What would this do?
I know the micro::bit block looks like this:

and it can have an image in it.
But, you can see through hacked blocks, that it actually converts the image to 0's and 1's.
I don't see how it could report an image, like said in this quote:
I know the micro::bit block looks like this:
and it can have an image in it.
But, you can see through hacked blocks, that it actually converts the image to 0's and 1's.
I don't see how it could report an image, like said in this quote:
Even if it could report an image, what would it be used for. The only thing I can see is something like this:Your profile picture, reported as an image (costumes and backdrops are also images)This would need a whole new block type though as there's no block that has an output of an image.
draw (profile picture :: sensing) :: penwhich wouldn't work with some, such as GIFS. Also, it wouldn't work with costumes because they are already made, and you can't edit them through the code.
- han614698
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
Reporter blocks can only hold LETTERS and NUMBERS. They cannot hold pictures. HOWEVER, it may be possible to have a block:
Add & Switch Costume to [user's v] profile pictureSemi-Support, leaning towards no support for this exact block. I like the concept, though.
- the2000
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
Reporter blocks can only hold LETTERS and NUMBERS. They cannot hold pictures. HOWEVER, it may be possible to have a block:That seems like a very weird block, and it would break the long established rule that Scratch projects cannot alter their own source code. I think that's a bad idea.Add & Switch Costume to [user's v] profile pictureSemi-Support, leaning towards no support for this exact block. I like the concept, though.
- spocite
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
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That wouldn't ever work, ever. A block to set profile pictures? Scratch would be chaos! People like griffpatch would constantly be weird, wacky, inappropriate images.
ik thats prob not how it works but i have no idea how. somebody explain this to me
Last edited by spocite (Feb. 5, 2021 18:40:42)
- han614698
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
I don't disagree with you, just did not quite understand what block was being proposed here and I tried to guess (epic fail).Reporter blocks can only hold LETTERS and NUMBERS. They cannot hold pictures. HOWEVER, it may be possible to have a block:That seems like a very weird block, and it would break the long established rule that Scratch projects cannot alter their own source code. I think that's a bad idea.Add & Switch Costume to [user's v] profile pictureSemi-Support, leaning towards no support for this exact block. I like the concept, though.
- dertermenter
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
DuplicateSince this has more posts, I think it should be merged.
- Bacteria999
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
Reporter blocks can only hold LETTERS and NUMBERS. They cannot hold pictures. HOWEVER, it may be possible to have a block:Everything on a computer is letters and numbers.Add & Switch Costume to [user's v] profile pictureSemi-Support, leaning towards no support for this exact block. I like the concept, though.
- CatsUnited
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
The two topics implement this feature in different ways though - the suggestion you linked suggests to be able to switch the costume of a sprite or the backdrop to be the user's profile picture, while this suggestion is asking forDuplicateSince this has more posts, I think it should be merged.

which is really weird
- hiPeeps124816
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
so r u saying ur allowing projects to change the players profile picSorry, if we can't have blocks that return lists or functions (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), I see no reason why we should have a block that returns an image. Plus..Or we can change the block type like this((profile picture :: sensing) + (username)) // what the heck does this do?set profile picture to [...]
- PicoMetrics
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Scratcher
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Adding a Profile picture block
What would that do?Sorry, if we can't have blocks that return lists or functions (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), I see no reason why we should have a block that returns an image. Plus..Or we can change the block type like this((profile picture :: sensing) + (username)) // what the heck does this do?set profile picture to [...]









