GP Beta Test Forum

The latest version of GP, v079, is available from http://gpblocks.org/versions/GP.zip This version fixes a long-standing redisplay bug in Windows when the GP window is maximized, minimized, and re-maximized. Thanks to Simple Si for clarifying that issue. Other features: - "File Stream" blocks for re...

Many GP input slots (such as the one in the 'return' block) accept either a number or a string. They guess the type based on what you type. If the string has the correct syntax for an integer or floating point numbers, it guesses that you intend for it to be a number. When GP guesses that the input ...

Nice! Short and elegant.

Have you used it to implement the Luhn algorithm for checking credit card numbers? (I did not know about the Luhn algorithm before; I had to look it up.)

Nice!

The "myZip" function could be simplified. It doesn't need to create and call a function; it could just do the job directly.

You're welcome! The great thing about the forums is that answers to questions like this are shared with everyone, so it's worth spending the time to write a good answer.

GP uses the hardware GPU (graphics processing unit), which does anti-aliasing automatically when scaling and rotating costumes. You can sort of avoid that if your instance isn't rotated or scaled and you use the "normal stage size" command to make sure that the stage itself isn't scaled. But, in gen...

Good idea. As noted, the functionality is already there, so we just need to make a block in the palette to invoke it.

Nice idea, and thanks for offering to help.

I'd be happy to organize a "developer mode" office hour on Google hangouts some time, if there is interest, perhaps in January.

Anyone who is interested in that, please post on this thread and indicate what time of day (on a weekday) would work for you.

Thanks for reporting this. I'll investigate.

Meanwhile, thanks for sharing the workaround.

I'm glad you were able to dig into the problem yourself.

I agree, the way the Explorer shows string values needs improvement.