My daughter is creating a Scratch-based presentation for a school report. The report will be presented on the teacher's computer through a projector, and my daughter asked me to get a wireless remote presentation “clicker” so she wouldn't have to stand next to the laptop and press the arrow keys. We bought a wireless clicker, but have since learned that most (if not all) of these remote clickers generate “page up” and “page down” (USB keyboard) key codes to the computer, and unfortunately Scratch only looks for “up”, “down”, “left”, and “right”.

I doubt this will be resolved in time for our needs, but I'd like to suggest that “page up” and “page down” be added as supported keys in the Scratch “When ____ key is pressed” control block, since this may help other kids down the road.

Thanks!

Actually, this is possible (I think) — see my “Magic Keypress Block” project (I use a Mac, but people on Windows say they even got the Windows button to work!). I know for a fact that shift, delete (backspace), etc. do work.

EDIT: Here's a link: Enjoy! http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10030151/

What platform are you using? There might be software you can use to map page up to the up arrow, and so on…

blob8108 wrote:

What platform are you using? There might be software you can use to map page up to the up arrow, and so on…

Yes, there is software for that but the OP stated that This will be presented on the teachers computer and i doubt that his daughter could install software just for that one single purpose.

daniel_j wrote:

This will be presented on the teachers computer

Good point!

what's bad about mouse clicks?

Yeah, if you have a wireless Bluetooth mouse or something, she could just use that.

how down road???