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by Jens
Jul 12th, '17, 20:50
Forum: Getting started
Topic: Top 10 most important things to know about GP before starting out
Replies: 14
Views: 1345338

Re: Top 10 most important things to know about GP before starting out

Hi Sven,

thank you for composing this guide. This is a wonderful compilation of the key differences of GP to its brethren, cutting straight to the point!
by Jens
Jul 11th, '17, 08:43
Forum: Working with GP
Topic: Correct terminology to use
Replies: 3
Views: 11758

Re: Correct terminology to use

Hi Simon, I think you've pretty much gotten it straight :-) Yes: Classes are "blueprints" for objects. A class defines the structures of its instances, i.e. the "fields" or instance variables and the "methods" or custom blocks. When an object is "born" by instantiating a class it inherits the struct...
by Jens
Jul 12th, '16, 08:32
Forum: Fixed Bugs
Topic: Typing in Workspace bug [FIXED]
Replies: 3
Views: 13750

Re: Typing in Workspace bug

Excellent test case, I can totally reproduce this bug, thanks for hunting it down, Mark and John. Working on a fix now...
by Jens
Oct 21st, '15, 10:32
Forum: Fixed Bugs
Topic: Variable naming is funky [FIXED]
Replies: 3
Views: 11835

Re: Variable naming is funky

changing the name of a variable getter block does not rename the variable. You can use it to point the variable getter reporter to another variable. If you want to change the field variable "n" to "foo" you need to delete "n" and create a new variable named "foo". Then you can use "rename" on each r...
by Jens
Oct 21st, '15, 10:23
Forum: Fixed Bugs
Topic: key is down event really funky! [FIXED]
Replies: 2
Views: 10676

Re: key is down event really funky!

That's a GP dev mode feature, not a bug.
Space + click is a special meta-gesture that "textifies" blocks into the bootstrapping representation. It's only available in dev mode, not in user mode.