Say Block For Stage

[TheBrokenRail]

Curent Behavior

Say Bubble Appears In Top-Left corner of the screen.

Requested Behavior

An ask input appears, but instead of a text box it is just text with an ok button.

Why

It will make displaying messages easier.

[Grinthy]

Uhh, you're not making sense to me. So, correct me if I'm wrong, but lemme try to summarize:

• The say bubble should go in the top-left corner, right?
• I'm in confusion about the "ask [] and wait" and "ask [] and wait () sec" block behavior. Can you clarify?

Thanks, -- Ryan

[Kenny2github]

@Grinthy no, what the user is saying is:

What currently happens

a "say" bubble appears in the top left corner

What is being requested

the box used for "ask" blocks appears, but without the text input, and with just the "ok" button on the right.

[radioblahaj]

I don't think that this should be addded because a say blockk and a text in the background will look werid. Thats why you can add text in a backdrop. @CosmicWebServices

[TheBrokenRail]

Heres a Concept Image

Current

Proposed

[sjhuang26]

This seems like a good idea. It would make things easier for beginners.

But why need the check mark? If I understand correctly, this is a "say ----- for () seconds" block for the stage, and normal speech bubbles don't have check marks. The message could simply automatically disappear after the specified number of seconds.

[radioblahaj]

Acutully, i chanve my mind. It looks good. :D

[mrjacobbloom]

This could also apply to hidden sprites

[Kenny2github]

@mrjacobbloom currently hidden sprites don't say anything though... if this were to apply to hidden sprites, then it would break some projects.

[williamjallen]

Maybe we could have a "Say" block similar to the Scratch 2.0 "Ask and Wait" block that displays a generic message that is unrelated to any object.

[radioblahaj]

@dalearn good idea.

[williamjallen]

@redmangospros but if we do that, should we put the "Ask and Wait" block back in to complement it? Was there any discussion on its removal initially?

[radioblahaj]

On removal I'm not sure. I think we could put the ask and wait back into component.

[williamjallen]

It appears that I had an old version or something. It's in there in the latest version

[kyleplo]

Well, this actually sound like the JavaScript alert, confirm and prompt functions. For alert, you could use @TheBrokenRail 's idea: For confirm, you could use this: And prompt would be like the current "ask" block Sorry, my image editing skills are bad.

[radioblahaj]

@kyleplo I argge with your idea and change of @TheBrokenRail. @dalearn Thanks for classifying that you have a old Version

[CosmicWebServices]

No longer confused... good idea... maybe an extension? btw kinda off topic will there be an extension API open to the public?

[radioblahaj]

I think we need a scratch team member to answer yoir question of a extestion api to pybilc. So i will call @thisandagain.

I cpuld deplovp a extestion with help though as ypu said cosmic. But i will need help. Though this could ve added in the scratch blocks without the need of a extestion

[TheBrokenRail]

Here's a demo implementation of the feature I made: https://github.com/TheBrokenRail/scratch-gui/tree/say-stage which depends on https://github.com/TheBrokenRail/scratch-vm/tree/say-stage

[thisandagain]

I like this idea @TheBrokenRail. I'll make sure we discuss it the next time we look at the feature backlog.

[radioblahaj]

Great.

[CosmicWebServices]

@kyleplo what would a confirm block look like?

[kyleplo]

@CosmicWebServices

[radioblahaj]

Cool, But Why Add The Ask Text () Block, when you can just use yes or no, ask and wait or bnumber.

[Grinthy]

This thing exploded.

[radioblahaj]

Lol

[apple502j]

@thisandagain This is not a suggestion, but a bug:

(To repro: just share the love.

[thisandagain]

@apple502j The "bug" part of this (deviation from 2.0) is being tracked here: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-render/issues/373

This was originally created as a feature request to add this functionality so I prefer we keep this issue open and focused on that.

[TheBrokenRail]

Any update on this?

[Samq64]

For the original suggestion, I think something like @TheBrokenRail's implementation would work well if it was a bit smaller and also worked for sprites, but it should probably be separate from the say block. Maybe something like this?

For @kyleplo's suggestion, I like the idea of making the ask block a drop-down, but I'm not sure the second answer block. Maybe a better idea since the ask system will likely be changed quite a bit already if this gets implemented is to also implement this Scratch forum suggestion which turns the ask block into a reporter and removes (or hides) the answer reporter, that way no new blocks are needed and one is removed without taking away any functionality. It would also be nice if you could ask for different types of data through the drop-down like in the image below.