Sorry, but no support. Make a variable

(paused/resumed)

and set it to

set [paused/resumed v] to [resumed ]

when you click the green flag. Then make a pause/resume button sprite with 2 costumes and set it to the other costume each time you click it, then make a script

forever
    
if <(costume #) = [ 1]> then
set [paused/resumed v] to [resumed ]
else
set [paused/resumed v] to [paused ]    
end

end

Then make a script in all of the sprites saying to only do their function if

<(paused/resumed) = [1 ]>

That should work.

No offence DaSpudLord, but that quoting is seriously excessive. Please only quote what is neede, you don't have to quote the entire quote inside quote inside quote inside quote inside quote inside quote…

DaSpudLord wrote:

No support for pause, this will discourage people from programming their own pause buttons. And no support for saving, as it is workaroundable with cloud data, and how would it work, exactly?

Wow. No offense but is that your answer for everything? Anyway…. its just a pause button.

Cub56 wrote:

No offence DaSpudLord, but that quoting is seriously excessive. Please only quote what is neede, you don't have to quote the entire quote inside quote inside quote inside quote inside quote inside quote…

Sometimes i try to snip long quote chains, but when I post from my tablet I usually don't because it's harder.

TheoBCaderos wrote:

There is a green flag and red octagon. Why not add an amber pause button which changes to a blue resume button when clicked? It will temporarily stop all scripts, and when resumed will pick up where you left off.

I totally support this 100%. I love the idea! I am not so sure about the save and load buttons though.

Yeah! I agree!

Support!

People saying that it will discourage people from actually programming it, what if I have something like

glide (20) secs to x: (desired x) y: (desired y)

when green flag clicked
wait until <touching [thing that is touched during the glide v] ?>
script :: grey cap

.

You can't possibly pause in the middle of a glide, but, I don't see any way that the pause button wouldn't stop script #2, but would stop everything else. Then, script #2 never activates, the sprite gets there while the project is paused, and the project doesn't work.

Any way possible to do make something like this would be way too complicated, if even possible, and I doubt that the new coders here who make most of the projects would be able to figure that out. Besides, such complexity just in case someone happens to need to go somewhere in the middle of a project that he can't stop is probably not worth it. Therefore, we need a pause button. Support

The save button, well, semi-support. I am not quite sure I see it being worth time time it will take.

Scratchy_the_Caty wrote:

Support!

People saying that it will discourage people from actually programming it, what if I have something like

glide (20) secs to x: (desired x) y: (desired y)

when green flag clicked
wait until <touching [thing that is touched during the glide v] ?>
script :: grey cap

.

You can't possibly pause in the middle of a glide, but, I don't see any way that the pause button wouldn't stop script #2, but would stop everything else. Then, script #2 never activates, the sprite gets there while the project is paused, and the project doesn't work.

Any way possible to do make something like this would be way too complicated, if even possible, and I doubt that the new coders here who make most of the projects would be able to figure that out. Besides, such complexity just in case someone happens to need to go somewhere in the middle of a project that he can't stop is probably not worth it. Therefore, we need a pause button. Support

The save button, well, semi-support. I am not quite sure I see it being worth time time it will take.

Yes, I agree, the pause-resume button is not completely workaroundable.

Bump

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Change to semi-support, again.
Although it is against programming it yourself, it is a good feature, but seems hard to add.

Duplicate. Please add your suggestion to the original topic.

That duplicate is rather old.
No necroposting is the rule…

It has been nice to hear all of the opinions! After hearing them, I am semi-supporting them both.

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Before you say I'm Necroposting I did it because there was a dupe and I had to do this…

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Everyone that says that people need to learn to make pause buttons instead of “everything being handed out on a sliver platter”, read #6 of this.

This would be super beneficial if you are playing a game and want to take a break. Most people are saying that you should code them yourself, but it's not like they CAN and WANT to do that. If a team of nerds can make a browser extension with the pause button, why not Scratch?

Support.

It would also be useful to have a

pause all ::control

block, which pauses everything when it is run. This is comparable to the breakpoint feature found in many IDEs and would be a very useful feature for debugging fast-running code.

Greg8128 wrote:

It would also be useful to have a

pause all ::control

block, which pauses everything when it is run. This is comparable to the breakpoint feature found in many IDEs and would be a very useful feature for debugging fast-running code.

That would be amazing as well.

No support, this is workaroundable.