Macros

[towerofnix]

From birdoftheday:

Suggestion: macros

@birdoftheday ahem not enough design or info!! !!!!

[birdoftheday]

Ok so it's like this!!!

When you have a pie
When you have a piece of code using a block or structure that's not in Scratch you can have different kind of like find and replace things that change it into different Scratch code without adding any new blocks and you can make the macros yourself

[towerofnix]

Ok quick question!!!

1. How are these different from custom blocks sorry
2. How can I implement them into the project.json format without changing any of Scratch's format? Comments I guess

[joker314]

To answer 2, you cannot add comments into JSON (comments do not exits in JSON), but you can create extra key-value pairs that Scratch will hopefully ignore. e.g. "scrap-mod-data" : ... or something?

[towerofnix]

Oh, I mean Scratch comments :P – since nobody uses them (literally nobody, with this mod, since I basically removed the ability to see comments) – plus, if you save the project from Scratch, the comment won't be removed, since it's a thing normal to have in Scratch.

[djsrv]

Scratch doesn't actually follow the JSON spec, and it allows JSON to contain comments. You'd just have to modify skipComment.

[towerofnix]

That's cool!

Comments would still probably need to be the method of data storage, though. I imagine if you save the project in Scratch, those "JSON" comments would disappear.

[bates64]

I imagine if you save the project in Scratch, those "JSON" comments would disappear.

@liam4 you'd better test that

[djsrv]

It would discard the JSON comments.

Another data storage option would be the stage's info object. Scratch doesn't appear to discard anything in it, even if it isn't supposed to be there.

[card100]

Would Scratch discard a extra JSON file?

[bates64]

Would Scratch discard a extra JSON file?

Let's see! ^...

[towerofnix]

Yes. :P

It creates a new SB2 file every time you save; it doesn't modify the opened SB2 file.

[bates64]

I created a scrap.json file in the sb2 and got this result @card100:

So yeah, it totally breaks it 😞

[card100]

And you contacted the Scratch team...

[towerofnix]

..I'm 99.99% sure that doesn't actually notify the ST..