This is kind of similar to this topic, but hear me out, it's sort of an improvement

Similar to the idea of visually chaining scripts, this feature would allow scripts to be linked to - sort of like webpage links - from editor comments. If you click on a link, it should teleport to wherever the script is, whether it be inside the same sprite or a different one.

To get a link, all you would have to do is right click the script, click a button to copy the script link to clipboard, and be able to paste into a comment

These links could also work outside of the editor so you can say exactly which script you are having trouble with
thanks Ammophobia for that one

Here's a mockup I made with a userscript :D

Bump

Nice idea, one (or maybe two) questions
Would the link work outside of comments in the editor? And if you click on the link, it would relocate you there, right?

Ammophobia wrote:

Nice idea, one (or maybe two) questions
Would the link work outside of comments in the editor? And if you click on the link, it would relocate you there, right?

That's also a pretty good idea. If someone has questions about how a certain script works, they can say exactly which script it is

Thanks for the feedback, I hardly ever get any responses on my suggestions

How would the link even be formatted?

DifferentDance8 wrote:

How would the link even be formatted?

Like a link, obviously

It would use those hashes that you see sometimes to relocate to a script

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1234567890/editor#Sprite1-scriptIDsomething (the ID is just a bunch of random stuff that you get from copying the link to the script)

In editor comments, this will be clickable

Bump, there's a mockup now

Interesting.
Would help out basically every HwS helper in existance after they remix a project — Just jot down the URLs and changes instead of manually recreating it in the forums or other stuff such as explaining, etc.

Convenient, however if it's being added now, then what about PAST projects? Will it just… skip over them for now? What if you delete the code, what happens to the chainID? Will it turn into a dead link? (edit: actually this is a dumb question but oh well)

Support.

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Zydrolic wrote:

Convenient, however if it's being added now, then what about PAST projects? Will it just… skip over them for now?

It wouldn't need to ignore projects in the past since this is not something that has to be done by Scratch's servers. Link annotations would happen on the client

What if you delete the code, what happens to the chainID? Will it turn into a dead link? (edit: actually this is a dumb question but oh well)

Yes, it would become a dead link

ajskateboarder wrote:

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It wouldn't need to ignore projects in the past since this is not something that has to be done by Scratch's servers. Link annotations would happen on the client

oh im dumb lol

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Like this?
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1/editor/script1