SCRATCH

APP – INTERACTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTION

For this application, you will use new sprites and create an interactive version of your name. When you click on the letters, they will respond in some way.

STEPS

STEP 0 – NEW APPLICATION

• You need to start with a new application. So choose File > New. Of course, you need to save any previous work beforehand or it will be lost.

STEP 1 – ADD THE LETTERS

• Add all the sprites (letters) needed to spell a word (school-appropriate). It could be your name or anything else.
  
  
• Place the letters in the application by dragging them to a good location.

STEP 2 – CLICK EVENT

• When want to have code respond when a letter is clicked on. To do this, we add a When this sprite is clicked on event to our code.
  
  Do this for all your letters.

STEP 3 – ACTION

• For each letter choose an action that will occur when it gets clicked. A few possibilities include:
• Rotating the letter (by using the turn statement in Motion)
• Increasing or decreasing letter size (by using the change size by (#) statement in Looks.
• Playing a sound (by using the play sound statement in Sounds)

STEP 4 – TEST YOUR PROGRAM

• Run your program. Click on each letter to make sure it reacts as expected.
  
  

GOT EXTRA TIME?

• Try exploring the set [color] effect by (25) command in Look. There are a lot of neat things here.
  
  
• To undo all the color effects you tried, you can use the clear graphic effects command in Look.