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Hey Hopscotchers,

Have you ever been overwhelmed by all the different blocks in Hopscotch? In this release, you’re getting a Full/Lite keyboard switch for your Hopscotch keyboard! The Lite keyboard contains only the essential blocks that will help you kick off your Hopscotch journey quickly. Look for the keyboard switch button on the top right corner of the keyboard when you are coding. We can’t wait to see all the fabulous projects you will create!

If you have any questions/comments/feedback, please email us at help@gethopscotch.com.
As always, happy Hopscotching!

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Cool! This is a much needed update.

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Oooh real cool for beginners! Might make more advanced blocks even more possible :eyes:

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this is very cool

and also a very good reason not to hold back adding all kinds of blocks to the “full” keyboard i’m so excited for the possibilities

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Please note: the update may take up to a few hours to show up on your end.

Just letting you all know so you aren’t confused as to why the update isn’t showing up for you.

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Excited for this! :smiley:

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Me too.

But now that the Lite Keyboard hides some of the more advanced blocks (including those that are actually advanced mode exclusive), is Advanced Mode even necessary anymore? The subscription is still useful because you get “free” [1] custom art with it.

  1. well, at no seed cost, you still have to pay the subscription renewal ↩︎

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Wait which ones and does that include user variables?

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Everything the Lite Keyboard Hides:

Summary

When is Not Pressed
When Touch Ends
When I Get A Message
When Message Matches

When is Not Touching

When flipped
When Matches

Flip
Set Speed
Set Origin X
Set Origin Y

Set Size
Set Width and Height
Bring to Front
Send to Back
Change Pose
Set Z index
Set Tempo
Set Instrument
Play Note
Set Text to Input

Set Trail Opacity
Set Trail Cap

Save Input

Wait milliseconds
Open Project
Broadcast Message
Request Seeds

Sine
Cosine
Tangent
Inverse Sine
Inverse Cosine
Inverse Tangent
Maximum
Minimum
Round
Floor
Ceiling
Absolute Value
Modulo

Speed
Z index
Origin X
Origin Y
Text
Tempo
Instrument

Username
Time
Year
Month
Day
Hour
Minute
Second

It sneakily forces your Advanced Mode off. However, it doesn’t turn it back on, even if it was on before tapping the button, which could be a huge problem if users accidentally tap on the button because then they need to go out of the project just to turn Advanced Mode back on.

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Maybe they should add an in-project button to turn advanced mode on/off?

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I think the easier solution would be to store the previous state of advanced mode, then turn it back on if the stored state is equal to 1 (advanced mode on), once the user taps the button again.

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Yep, the possibilities are limitless, because now THT can add some of the blocks we’ve been wanting for years without worrying about it overwhelming the beginners (because they’ll all be hidden). It may take several months or even a year for any of that to happen, but I’m sure it’ll all be worth it.

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wait what?? this is like one of the simplest blocks, it’s easy to understand [& also one of the only blocks with no parameters! the only other one i can think of is “create a clone”.]! i don’t understand the inclusion of it on this list

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Yeah, Flip, Change Pose, and Create a Clone (unless you modify it) are the only blocks without any parameters.

Flip might be hidden because the conditionals for checking if an object is flipped is also hidden. THT had to make some compromises when doing all this.

I think it would be cool if we could also customize the visibility of blocks so we could just have the ones we use the most show up, but that may be pushing it…

And of course, a search bar for our variables because I think it’s a hassle to go through every variable just to find one single variable.

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oh yeah i forgot change pose

oh my goigly yes

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The new Lite/Full keyboard thing makes me imagine the following

  • Lite (very self explanatory)
  • Basic (basically with advanced mode off)
  • Advanced (would be locked by subscription. It could also replace the advanced mode toggle in settings)
  • Custom (I think it would be really convenient. Just imagine being able to choose the blocks you want to see).
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Love the new update! Definitely a good simplification for the HS keyboard. And good pick of simple vs. unnecessary blocks for beginners. :trophy::+1::+1::smiley:

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Honestly the list seems really good to her than the set size block being hidden

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What doesn’t make sense is why Set Size is hidden, but not ((object) size as a %), as they are both closely related…

E: although thinking about it, Grow and Shrink by also affects the size percentage, so that may be the reason…

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honestly grow and shrink are so hard to use on a mathematical point (you grow by 40%, how much do you shrink to get it back? not 40%) that its actually pretty useless to have it as a block. id rather have grow and shrink being hidden by the LITE keyboard than having set size being hidden

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