gregatku's new pfp (Profile picture) A simple slideshow & animation explaining the why & how of my recent (2021 long Lockdown) pfp change. Click anywhere for the next slide
Created by @gregatku for ... well gregatku mainly. Thanks to my student who refused to learn Scratch & to Kids Unlimited (KU) for hiring me 5 years ago as a Coding teacher enabling me to learn & love Scratch. NOTE: This project contains a version of the on-screen Arrow Keys I have used in a few projects now, to make them Touch Screen friendly. But I didn't like a few things about how difficult it was to port it to other projects, so I have generalised it now and located everything in the single Sprite "Compass" that you're welcome to use in your projects. It broadcasts the messages Up, Down, Left & Right depending on which Arrow is clicked and also does the same if the corresponding Keyboard arrows are hit. It's up to your project what happens thereafter. To prove its portability I have now incorporated it into the project where I most recently used it, my Black Square Puzzle project. All the things you need to change to suit your project are at the top of Sprite's Code & include the following: - Compass X (to locate it) - Compass Y ( " ) - Compass Size (less than 75% not recommended) - Compass Colour (any of the Scratch Colors 0-99) - Brightness Effect (small -ve value for a bit darker) To suit your project you may also need to change the 2 Events that trigger its: - appearance (when I receive Animation) & - disappearance (when backdrop switches to ...) The only other thing you may need to change are the messages broadcast by the Keyboard arrows, which I did when porting it to Black Square Puzzle, because I needed to do something slightly different when a keyboard arrow is hit instead of the on screen ones in that project.
