feature request for Scratch embed filter

[Mary]

It would be useful to have a Scratch embed filter similar to the one in Moodle http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_scratch so that students can showcase their Scratch games via a Mahara page

[Ruslan Kabalin (rkabalin)]

Related forum discussion: https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4359

[Gregor Anželj (gregor-anzelj)]

Created something for testing.

Extract attached scratch.zip file into /htdocs/artefact/file/blocktypes/
This should produce scratch subfolder.

Than goto Mahara Administration and install the plugin.

Please test it and report back...
I know there are issues with IE (Applet shows over the block configuraton form!)

This is not yet publically release plugin. It is only for testing.
The version of the plugin is 1.0.0 valentine (although I may missed a day...)

[Mary (mail-mrscooch)]

Wow thanks so much for the (belated) Valentine Scratch! I installed it fine and it appears to be going to work - but I am getting stuck on the loading screen, in Chrome and Firefox. Here is an example
http://www.maharafairy.co.uk/view/view.php?id=55
For me it doesn't go beyond the Loading - but I don't know if my laptop is missing a setting or a feature??

[Gregor Anželj (gregor-anzelj)]

Just tested this on localhost... maybe this got something to do with it.

Will look into it...

Thanks for feedback, G

2012/2/15 Mary <email address hidden>

> Wow thanks so much for the (belated) Valentine Scratch! I installed it
> fine and it appears to be going to work - but I am getting stuck on the
> loading screen, in Chrome and Firefox. Here is an example
> http://www.maharafairy.co.uk/view/view.php?id=55
> For me it doesn't go beyond the Loading - but I don't know if my laptop is
> missing a setting or a feature??
>
> ** Bug watch added: www.maharafairy.co.uk/view/ #55
> http://www.maharafairy.co.uk/view/view.php?id=55
>
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> Title:
> feature request for Scratch embed filter
>
> Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> It would be useful to have a Scratch embed filter similar to the one
> in Moodle http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_scratch so
> that students can showcase their Scratch games via a Mahara page
>
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Gregor Anželj, prof.
Gimnazija Bežigrad, Ljubljana

[Gregor Anželj (gregor-anzelj)]

Please try this one. Before installing it, please REMOVE htdocs/artefact/file/blocktype/scratch folder completely.

This is still development version for testing only, and it still has problems in MSIE.

Please check, if it displays Scratch project files.

Regards,
Gregor

[Mary (mail-mrscooch)]

Ok - this seems to work better http://www.maharafairy.co.uk/view/view.php?id=82 but there are a few issues - I will give a longer response later and thanks again

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Great. :-) Unfortunately, I don't see anything in Firefox 10 on Ubuntu. Chromium tells me that I have a plugin missing but it doesn't say which one. Chrome on Mac asks to run Java and then displays the calculator so that I can use it. Safari and Firefox on Mac load it automatically.

[Gregor Anželj (gregor-anzelj)]

I guess this has to do with webbrowser not loading/having java plugin (Scratch project files are embedded using java applet) - so it is a browser, not a Mahara plugin thing than (I guess?)

[Mary (mail-mrscooch)]

Well I am on a Windows 7 laptop and I see it fine in Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. I just downloaded Firefox 10 - my other version was 6 months old and it works there too. So what else can I be testing to help out? Sorry I don't have access to any non-Windows devices - can't afford them! This is the laptop given me by my school.

[Gregor Anželj (gregor-anzelj)]

If it works fine on Windows and different web browsers than it is on Kristina to verify, if it works on Linux (with different web browsers).

This will confirm that this is web browser/java plugin thing and has nothing to do with Scratch plugin itself.

If it works, than I will publically release it...

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

As it is a Java thing, I think it is my browsers for which I need to install Java. In the ones that already come with Java, it works fine.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

I tried to test it in MS IE 8 and 9 but couldn't get it to run though Java was installed on the computer. For some reason, Java was not loaded. :-(