[edit 11Aug] Script updated to handle searching for variables as well as blocks. Its proving excellent at helping me find global variables that don't need to be global and can be made local to a sprite.
Also for finding that I don't use some that I've previously created
[edit 14Aug] here is a custom reporter that does the same as above
Note: Make sure you right-click and ringify the search block/variable you are looking for e.g.
so it looks like this
[edit 16Aug] Updated to handles searching for plain text
I'd never tried dragging and dropping directly between the forum and a project before -I've always used Image Save as and downloaded and then dragged the downloaded file into a project
So I just tried it now and got this error message
Not a real issue for me as it's not the technique I use - I don't have the real estate screen size to have the forum and a project visible at the same time
I probably used a global variable called LOCK at one stage (or played about with it) but it's no longer needed in the project (as the only sprite referring to it is the sprite I'm running the find block in) so I can just simply delete it
Unused blocks only finds unused Library/custom blocks - completely different tool
It doesn't detect custom blocks just hanging around loosely in a script - it only detects Linrary/custom blocks that are not in any sprites editing pane
Got it. I'm glad you're enjoying metaprogramming! (There was a bunch of "who's going to use this?" in discussions at the conference. So now we have an answer: Hardly anyone will use it directly, but lots of people will use your library!)
PS I'm not convinced that FIND IN PROJECT has to be yellow and all caps; it doesn't do anything to the project.
My thinking is that I need Snappers who accidently/inadvertently come across my IDE helper blocks to stop and think - why does this block look so strange????
And then maybe they'll right-click and click help
They probably won't but at least I've tried my best to warn them
This find block, in itself, isn't dangerous, but the sort variable blocks are and I'm thinking best to just put them all in the one category
But maybe this one could just go into a standard category???
