Snap! user discussion

s_federici

s_federici wrote:
Does someone have a working example of how to use Snap's connectivity to remote resources?

See above

technoboy10

s_federici wrote:
s_federici wrote:
Does someone have a working example of how to use Snap's connectivity to remote resources?

See above

What do you mean by remote resources?

s_federici

technoboy10 wrote:
What do you mean by remote resources?

I mean THIS by Jens and Brian.

technoboy10

See the github link in my signature. I've made a bunch of Snap! Hardware interfaces using this strategy.

davidkt

bharvey wrote:
No, actually, several of us are adults – teachers and/or computer scientists – and we get together at conferences IRL.

So you're colleagues or something? (I guess that^ explains why your domain ends in berkeley.edu

)

and we have hypnotized you into revealing that your name is David!

That's obvious.
P.S. I kind of wish you had continued BYOB instead of making Snap!. (I mean applied the updates to BYOB and still had the Squeak interface).
Why:

What if you want to use Snap! on the plane?
For some reason, Snap makes my only-7-month-old laptop NOISY!!!
There is one thing we won't forget about BYOB: its ability to create screensavers.

Hardmath123

https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

davidkt

Hardmath123 wrote:
https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

This is only for mac, and what's a web view anyway?

bharvey

davidkt wrote:
So you're colleagues or something?

We're all colleagues, even the young ones. But, yeah, some of us are occasionally-f2f colleagues.

What if you want to use Snap! on the plane?

Agreed. A standalone version is coming. (Meanwhile you can download the source and run it from your own machine, although things like cloud access obviously won't work offline.) The thing is, the teachers who are our primary target audience told us that they're often not allowed to install software on school computers, whereas Snap! runs in the browser and is therefore okay.

For some reason, Snap makes my only-7-month-old laptop NOISY!!!

Agreed. I have the same problem on my MacBook Pro. I think this is a result of having our own thread system instead of using JS native threads, but I'm not sure. Jens?

There is one thing we won't forget about BYOB: its ability to create screensavers.

Pfui. Can't you just hit PRINTSCREEN or whatever to take a snapshot?

(@Hm: You should have known he's a Windows user; BYOB screensavers only ever worked on Windows.)

Hardmath123

I don't know how Wndows screensavers work, I just pointed out that it's at least theoretically possible with Mac (which is kinda ironic now, since earlier I had spent ages figuring out how to get my BYOB stuff working as a screensaver and the Windows guys seemed to find it annoyingly easy).

Last edited by Hardmath123 (July 20, 2013 03:14:27)

MathWizz

Windows screensavers are simply .exes.

blob8108

MathWizz wrote:
Windows screensavers are simply .exes.

…with a .scr extension?

BigBlueBlock

blob8108 wrote:
MathWizz wrote:
Windows screensavers are simply .exes.
…with a .scr extension?

Yes.(I recently changed a .exe to a .scr file and it worked!)

davidkt

To make a screensaver from BYOB:

Download avast! Antivirus. It's the fastest antivirus program there is. And you need it for a BYOB screensaver.
Open your Scratch/BYOB project in BYOB
Choose Share ► Compile This Project…
Wait for the compiling process to finish.
Go to the directory where you compiled the files. BYOB should have generated two files: a .exe and a .ypr. Double-click on the .ypr, then exit the project.
Right-click on your desktop and click Properties.
Click Screen Saver on the bottom (Win 7/8) or the Screen Saver tab at the top (XP).
From the drop-down list, select avast! Antivirus, then click Settings
Select BYOB from the drop-down list
Click OK twice
You're done!

bharvey

davidkt wrote:
Download avast! Antivirus. It's the fastest antivirus program there is. And you need it for a BYOB screensaver.

Okay, why does this make sense? What does an antivirus program have to do with screensavers?

PS Here I am in Beja, Portugal for a teacher workshop pre-Barcelona. Free internet at the hotel. Why is it always free at the cheap hotels and $20/day at the expensive ones?

blob8108

bharvey wrote:
PS Here I am in Beja, Portugal for a teacher workshop pre-Barcelona. Free internet at the hotel. Why is it always free at the cheap hotels and $20/day at the expensive ones?

Ah yes, that's why I picked that hotel.

roijac

bharvey wrote:
davidkt wrote:
Download avast! Antivirus. It's the fastest antivirus program there is. And you need it for a BYOB screensaver.
Okay, why does this make sense? What does an antivirus program have to do with screensavers?

PS Here I am in Beja, Portugal for a teacher workshop pre-Barcelona. Free internet at the hotel. Why is it always free at the cheap hotels and $20/day at the expensive ones?

That's why the expensive hotels are expensive..

technoboy10

bh wrote:
Why is it always free at the cheap hotels and $20/day at the expensive ones?

IKR?

If you ask for a password for a group, you can sometimes get a free rate.

Tierage

Oh snap.

davidkt

bharvey wrote:
davidkt wrote:
Download avast! Antivirus. It's the fastest antivirus program there is. And you need it for a BYOB screensaver.
Okay, why does this make sense? What does an antivirus program have to do with screensavers?

IDK, but that's how it works. avast! has a screensaver that runs .ypr's.

nathanprocks

davidkt wrote:
bharvey wrote:
davidkt wrote:
Download avast! Antivirus. It's the fastest antivirus program there is. And you need it for a BYOB screensaver.
Okay, why does this make sense? What does an antivirus program have to do with screensavers?
IDK, but that's how it works. avast! has a screensaver that runs .ypr's.

You can pack the project into an exe (with the BYOB software) and rename it to a scr file.

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