I thought of an idea while I was messing around with one of my projects, and that idea was variable transparency.

I would like it if you could change the transparency of a variable, because it would make seeing behind variables possible.

Let's say you have a pen drawer type thing and you would want to see all of the drawing, so you could just make the variable transparent.
Why should you have to hide them to see your drawing?

What do you think?

Possible Implementations

Flipped_ wrote:

transparency exists, the ghost effect, or pen transparency in the

change pen [color v] by ()::pen

dogeiscut wrote:

transparency exists, the ghost effect, or pen transparency in the

change pen [color v] by ()::pen

I know that that exists, I think you missed the point… I'm suggesting transparency for variables that way if you had a pen drawing you could see it from behind the variable

oh!

dogeiscut wrote:

oh!

due to you I have successfully rephrase my post, thank you

Support. I'd find it useful for projects that I need to display variables without covering up a part of the stage. Perhaps you could use blocks and have a right-click option?


Note: The images wouldn't show up, so I edited the post and it seems to be fixed.

Flipped_ wrote:

Support. I'd find it useful for projects that I need to display variables without covering up a part of the stage. Perhaps you could use blocks and have a right-click option?
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yeah, I like it

I'd say support; it'll be a lot easier than making number sprites for a variable then making it transparent.

set [ v] transparency to []

^ Sorry I forgot how to change block colours

awesome5185 wrote:

I'd say support; it'll be a lot easier than making number sprites for a variable then making it transparent.

set [ v] transparency to []

^ Sorry I forgot how to change block colours

::variables
like so

set [ v] transparency to []::variables

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Support.This would add effects to projects and make them cooler!
We can use it like this:

when I receive [shop v]
set [ghost v] effect to (100)
set [coins v] transparent to (100) :: variables
show
show variable [coins v]
repeat (25) // The variable and menu will appear!
change [ghost v] effect by (-4)
change [coins v] transparent by (-4) :: variables
end

I think that the primary purpose of a variable (along with lists too) is to store information, with displaying that information being only a secondary priority. I say this because if variables were more focused on displaying information nicely, you'd think there would be other features such as changing the color of the background or the color of the variable text, or having any size available for that variable to take up.

The reason that the small, large and slider layouts for variables exist is just to give a bit more customisation options for Scratchers who aren't yet skilled enough to create or use a costume or pen based text engine to display custom shaped text themselves and because it's useful for debugging purposes. Having transparency for variables has no practical purpose - it would just make your projects look cool, and I think that goes against the ST's intentions for the use of variables. If you want to make your variable displays look super cool, I would suggest just using a costume/pen based text engine, since those are specially designed to display text in all sorts of ways, and it would give you a lot more options than just having a transparency effect.

CatsUnited wrote:

I think that the primary purpose of a variable (along with lists too) is to store information, with displaying that information being only a secondary priority. I say this because if variables were more focused on displaying information nicely, you'd think there would be other features such as changing the color of the background or the color of the variable text, or having any size available for that variable to take up.

The reason that the small, large and slider layouts for variables exist is just to give a bit more customisation options for Scratchers who aren't yet skilled enough to create or use a costume or pen based text engine to display custom shaped text themselves and because it's useful for debugging purposes. Having transparency for variables has no practical purpose - it would just make your projects look cool, and I think that goes against the ST's intentions for the use of variables. If you want to make your variable displays look super cool, I would suggest just using a costume/pen based text engine, since those are specially designed to display text in all sorts of ways, and it would give you a lot more options than just having a transparency effect.

Yes I understand that they are mainly for storing information, but as I've done a lot of projects that just use variable sliders to change things just for demonstration purposes, I've noticed that they tend to get in the way sometimes, and I do know I could use keys to hide and show, but fair points