Some projects in scratch get very large, and sometimes it's hard to keep track of the many nested if/elses and loops. My suggestion is to alternate the colors of these to things when nested.
For examples:

old coloring:

if <(canJump) = [true]> then 
if <touching [wall v] ?> then 
if <key [right arrow v] pressed?> then 
if <key [a v] pressed?> then 
dash_right ()
else
walljump_right()
end
else
if <key [a v] pressed?> then 
dash_left()
else
walljump_left()
end
end
else
change [y v] by (15)
end
else
repeat until <(canJump) = [true]>
change [yvel v] by (-1)
end
end

new coloring:

if <(canJump) = [true]> then 
if <touching [wall v] ?> then :: #e1bf1f
if <key [right arrow v] pressed?> then 
if <key [a v] pressed?> then :: #e1bf1f
dash_right ()
else
walljump_right()
end
else
if <key [a v] pressed?> then :: #e1bf1f
dash_left()
else
walljump_left()
end
end
else
change [y v] by (15)
end
else
repeat until <(canJump) = [true]> :: #e1bf1f
change [yvel v] by (-1)
end
end

it helps organize and make code more readable. Maybe a different color than shown, but I do think this is a good addition.

This reminds me of Snap!. I believe this is called zebra coloring, and it would be a bit helpful for massive projects. Support!

Also, here's a screenshot of Snap!'s zebra coloring:


(The script shown is random if you were curious)

Support! This would make the loops & stuff less confusing.

bump

I think this should be added, as the boundaries of nested blocks are hard to find, this should help with this…

Support - this would make reading long scripts easier.

Pretty good idea. I'm pretty sure zebra coloring is already available with Snap! and the not-to-be-named extension. However, this feature being available in scratch would be very helpful, especially for large projects (and it would be easy to implement). Good job!

bumpity bump

SAVVYSCLUTTER wrote:

(#7)
Support!

Why?
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It can probably help when coding something big since you may get confused which if-then block is causing an error. Support for the reason stated.I say this support message too many times .-.

Also, forgot to mention that the TurboWarp addons menu has this.

bump

Please, for the love of god, this is very much necessary

I frequently find myself with long chains of if else code, and it becomes tiring to figure out which loop is which

I wanna argue maybe this would be similar to high contrast mode coming up but this would help with games since they require, many if statements. As for the animator side of this argument, it can help with my blocks and what they do, they are not going to be too bright to bleed my eyes.

actually I think it would be better if we include the my blocks.
Some my blocks are coded differently that we need to have some what of a distinction coloring

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/834998664/

So, this topic turned out to be a duplicate(info on dupes here) of 2 topics I found:
this one which is the one I recommend posting on
And this one, which may be older, but I don't recommend posting on since the other topic has more replies.

ZanterZlox wrote:

So, this topic turned out to be a duplicate(info on dupes here) of 2 topics I found:
this one which is the one I recommend posting on
And this one, which may be older, but I don't recommend posting on since the other topic has more replies.

thanks, Zanter. Ill report to close this, please move https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/350059/