Dialog extension+

I made a block that makes this:
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turn into this:
haha

Even though it's not good enough to use in normal project contexts, I'll still provide the block here:

bopupo better

I haven't added coloring to text or any other values yet. I will work on this block sometime soon. :slight_smile:

September 23, 7 hours later:

I added 3 more blocks with custom dialogs, blocks, colors, messages, pretty much whatever. Even though these are basic compared to the show formatted message block, I'll still show it.
nice

why is ur pfp orange and purple now :sob:

halaween

also known as Samhain

Very cool.

We should use a serif font for everything! That's one of the design decisions Scratch got wrong (although I admit display resolution was lower back then).

If you guys want real colored dialogs, I'll give you guys real colored dialogs. But it's gotta be a majority vote! :wink:

I wanted to extend the extension even further, so I changed the title of this post.

nearly every serif font is harder to read than nearly every sans font, and it would be incredibly difficult to read at the size of the default snap blocks. it's already hard enough to read the snap blocks at default size on my 1080p monitor, i imagine it would be far worse on a school chromebook, which is usually 768p and extra small. why would you want this?

This is what snap blocks look like with my browser's default serif font (Times New Roman), with the font size set to 14 (I had to increase it, because it was too small).

untitled script pic - 2024-09-23T205739.911

I personally don't think this looks good, but then again, it might just be the fact that I'm using Times New Roman, instead of a better serif font (I don't know what is better).

I vote in the affirmative :)

but can you add the new blocks to the original post?

Of course.

Baskerville
:~)

I kinda like the font Georgia.
Also,

That looks like Tinos,

Screenshot 2024-09-24 10.03.43

but I can definitely see a few differences.

tinos is metrically compatible with times new roman. the point is that things like chromeos can render webpages that use times new roman properly without paying for the actual times new roman font. google has made several fonts that are metric compatible with the common microsoft fonts.

why don't you just share a project with examples

Aesthetics aside (I think serif fonts look much better!), with a sans-serif font it's hard to distinguish capital I from lower case l, digit 1, or even vertical | bar: Il1|. (The font my browser is showing me makes the 1 more distinguishable than some others.) At small sizes, as in Snap! blocks, even lower case i sometimes looks like just a vertical line because the dot blends into the body of the letter. One of the webcomics I like has a character named "Lillium," and it's really hard to read his name in sans serif! Sometimes I can't tell the difference between a comma, and a period. (I'm farsighted.)

This isn't so bad when there's plenty of context, but seeing your computer-generated password in sans-serif is torture!

Wowza!

Link?

Drag the block pictures into the Snap! editor.

I'm still working on it. I have some more features I want to have out. :slight_smile: In the meantime, before I release it, you can

I might release it sometime this week. :slight_smile:

The extension has been released!

Introducing 4 new blocks:
show prompt dialog [Dialog title] message [I need your answer!] and send to [ V]:: looks show prompt dialog [Dialog title] message [I need your answer!] color [rgb(145, 26, 68)] and send to [ V]:: looks
inform message [This is a small message.]:: looks inform message [This is a message with buttons!] buttons []@delInput@verticalEllipsis@addInput:: looks

The blocks still use JavaScript, but that will change in a later update. I'll have the extension uploaded onto my Neocities page some time next week.

Anyway, here's the link you guys are probably not begging for:
https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=tethrarxitet&ProjectName=Dialog%20extension%2B