Inline Scratchblocks!

Cyoce

The Suggestion
It would be awesome if we could get inline scratchblocks code. I think this is self explanatory, but I will elaborate for clarity's sake. What I mean By inline scratchblocks code is the following:

You can move your sprite using the move (10) steps block!

Now, pretend that the orange text is scratchblocks code, like this:

move (10) steps

But on the same line as the rest of the quote.

How It Would Work
The syntax (way to tell the forums to put inline code) could be done in a few ways.
First, it could simply be:

plaintext [scratchblocks] scratch code [/scratchblocks] more plaintext

Where the scratch code would only take up one line of scratch blocks, and the tag is not on a new line. However, this could break some old posts. So how about a new way of designating Scratch Blocks?
Another alternative would be how StackOverflow does it, with the grave accent ( ` ) surrounding the code, i.e.

 plaintext `scratch code ` more plaintext

Or, as a combination, the tags [sb] or [blocks] could represent any Scratch Blocks code, but if written in one line, would be displayed as inline. This would:

Make the Scratchblocks tag shorter
Not break old posts
Allow for inline Scratch code

Example:

Plaintext [blocks]inline Scratch code[/blocks] More plaintext

Plaintext
[blocks]
Old-style (not inline) Scratch code
[/blocks]
More plaintext

Tell me what you think!

8 Supporters

Doodle-cats
stickfiregames
CatsUnited
theonlygusti
MathlyCat
DaSpudLord
Scratcher1002
Meep5010

Last edited by Cyoce (May 15, 2016 21:42:44)

Doodle-cats

Support! It's kind of annoying to ALWAYS put them in columns.

stickfiregames

Support.

CatsUnited

Support

theonlygusti

Support.

I'd like backticks to be reserved for online code though,
I think should be used for scratchblocks.

stickfiregames

theonlygusti wrote:
Support.

I'd like backticks to be reserved for online code though,
I think [sb] should be used for scratchblocks.

How about [scratchblocks=inline]?

I would just suggest making it automatically inline when the tags were inline, but that would mess up old posts.

theonlygusti

stickfiregames wrote:
How about [scratchblocks=inline]?

I would just suggest making it automatically inline when the tags were inline, but that would mess up old posts.

I think the entire scratchblocks tag should be shortened, and it should auto-inline.

Cyoce

theonlygusti wrote:
I think the entire scratchblocks tag should be shortened, and it should auto-inline.

So basically, you support something like the grave-accent solution?

normal text, `code` more normal text

Alternatively,

[blocks]code[/blocks]

or

[sb]code[/sb]

would shorten the normal tag, and allow for unchanged normal posts.

Last edited by Cyoce (March 21, 2015 03:57:27)

stickfiregames

Support for [sb] or [blocks], it's more consistent with the other tags (and [blocks] was on the old forum as well)

MathlyCat

Support!

DaSpudLord

Bump, and support for changing them to [sb] tags. (The old tag is really long…)

Scratcher1002

DaSpudLord wrote:
Bump, and support for changing them to [sb] tags. (The old tag is really long…)

I agree, it should be shorter. Support for ^^

stickfiregames wrote:
Support for [sb] or [blocks], it's more consistent with the other tags (and [blocks] was on the old forum as well)

That ^^

stickfiregames wrote:
theonlygusti wrote:
Support.

I'd like backticks to be reserved for online code though,
I think [sb] should be used for scratchblocks.

How about [scratchblocks=inline]?

I would just suggest making it automatically inline when the tags were inline, but that would mess up old posts.

And that ^^
xd

Meep5010

if that would be optional then 100% support. if forced 50% support.

DaSpudLord

Meep5010 wrote:
if that would be optional then 100% support. if forced 50% support.

It is optional, you would just put a return before adding the scratchblocks tag.

mybearworld

I [scratchblocks=inline]support::operators[/scratchblocks] this. While it obviously looks better, it is also incredibly easy to implement. All you need is an easy CSS rule: .blocks{display:inline-block;}
That's it.

MistaLOD

How is this not a thing already? Bump and Support!

Knightbot63

MistaLOD wrote:
How is this not a thing already? Bump and Support!

Why do you support?

PkmnQ

bumplicate

cookieclickerer33

Bump bc of dupe

I’m so sad too it was my best ever topic

hill_walker123

bump

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