[squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] SqueakJS for Scratch (was: Questions on scratchJS:

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Feb 11 22:42:41 UTC 2020


Glad you got it working, Stefano!

The SqueakJS VM currently has an artificial limit of 100 MB. This is not an
actual limit, but just there to prevent bugs from filling up all the
memory.

There is a line "this.totalMemory = 100000000;" in the JS file somewhere.
You could try appending another 0 to that and see if it works.

- Bert -


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:20 AM stefano federici <s_federici at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I just noticed that, whereas Scratch manages quite well projects whose
> size is more than 250MBs, it seems that ScratchJS cannot load projects
> bigger than 20MBs. Is this a limitation that can be overcome? I'm very
> interested to it as my students are developping multimedia projects that
> require a lot of memory.
>
> Cheers
> Stefano
>
>
> Stefano Federici
> -------------------------------------------------
> Università degli Studi di Cagliari
> Facoltà di Studi Umanistici
> Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia e Filosofia
> Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, Italia
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tel: +39 349 818 1955 Fax: +39 070 675 7113
>
> Il martedì 11 febbraio 2020, 09:57:55 CET, stefano federici <
> s_federici at yahoo.com> ha scritto:
>
>
> Thanks a lot Bert! Everything worked as you described. It worked well in
> my "local" version too (that is the "run" page that I downloaded to my PC).
>
> It would be very usefulif, when dragging the scratch.image to the box in
> the "run" page, Scratch would open in a new TAB. Is this an easy
> modification of the "run" page? Sorry if I ask you, I'm not an HTML/JS
> expert.
>
> Cheers
> Stefano
>
>
> Stefano Federici
> -------------------------------------------------
> Università degli Studi di Cagliari
> Facoltà di Studi Umanistici
> Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia e Filosofia
> Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, Italia
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tel: +39 349 818 1955 Fax: +39 070 675 7113
>
> Il lunedì 10 febbraio 2020, 00:29:58 CET, Bert Freudenberg <
> bert at freudenbergs.de> ha scritto:
>
>
> Hi Stefano,
>
> it is possible to export your project to your hard disk:
>
> 1. run ScratchJS via https://squeak.js.org/scratch/#fullscreen
> 2. Inside Scratch, click "Save" as you normally would, give it a name. I
> just did that and named mine "test".
> 3. go to https://squeak.js.org/run/ and scroll down inside the file box:
> [image: image.png]
> 4. click the "/Scratch/Scratch Projects/test.sb" link to download the
> project file.
>
>
> To import an older project you simply drag-and-drop it into ScratchJS. Or
> drop it into the "run" page and then use Scratch's file dialog - you just
> need to navigate up to the right folder (Click "Computer" then "SqueakJS"):
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> When I just tested this it said the file was corrupted, not sure if that
> is a general problem or not.
> Someone should investigate - to get to the Morphic desktop, shift-click
> the loop in the R of the SCRATCH logo:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Feel free to file bug reports / feature requests at
> https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/SqueakJS/issues/
>
> It would be relatively simple to make a proper stand-alone app out of this
> by packaging it via Electron, and using the actual file system instead of
> the in-browser file system. I just do not have the time for that currently.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Bert -
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at  7:32 AM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefano,
>
> I think that your understanding is correct. SqueakJS stores files
> in an internal database, so the Scratch files that you saved do not
> appear directly on your PC.
>
> I do not know if it possible to copy those files to the file system
> on your PC, but hopefully someone on the squeak-dev mailing list will
> have an answer.
>
> Thanks for asking,
> Dave
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:51:25AM +0000, stefano federici wrote:
> >
> >  >> you want to understand where the Scratch files are stored on your PC.
> > > Correct. So that I can easily open my old Scratch projects and I can
> send projects that I develop in ScratchJS to other people
> >
> > UPDATE: I created and saved a project in the "SqueakJS" folder (the one
> shown in ScratchJS) and I made a full search in my PC. The file was not
> found. So, I guess projects are just saved in an internal SqueakJS DB? If
> it is so, this makes unfortunately ScratchJS useless for my purposes. And I
> have no sufficient javascript/smalltalk knowledge to try myself to change
> this behaviour (that I guess would possible in principle, as a lot of JS
> apps allow to save file locally).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Stefano
> >
> > > I am also CC'ing the squeak-dev mailing list where some of the real
> Scratch and SqueakJS experts reside.
> >
> > Thanks a lot Dave
> >
> > > I think that you are asking about running Scratch on Bert
> Freudenberg's SqueakJS, which is a modern Squeak virtual machine
> implemented entirely in JavaScript for HML5
> >
> > Correct
> >
> > > If I understand your question correctly, you are asking about how to
> run Scratch on SqueakJS locally on your PC
> >
> > Yes. I partially solved the problem by downloading page
> https://squeak.js.org/run/ and by dragging my Scratch.image file into the
> page. ScratchJS runs apparently fine. I also partially solved the problem
> of running local files, by dragging the Scratch projects on the Scratch app
> running in SqueakJS
> >
> > > you want to understand where the Scratch files are stored on your PC.
> >
> > Correct. So that I can easily open my old Scratch projects and I can
> send projects that I develop in ScratchJS to other people
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Stefano Federici
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Universit?? degli Studi di Cagliari
> > Facolt?? di Studi Umanistici
> > Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia e Filosofia
> > Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, Italia
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Tel: +39 349 818 1955 Fax: +39 070 675 7113
> >
> > Il domenica 9 febbraio 2020, 04:05:38 CET, David T. Lewis <
> lewis at mail.msen.com> ha scritto:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Stefano,
> >
> > I am changing the subject line to "SqueakJS for Scratch" because google
> > sends me somewhere else for "ScratchJS".
> >
> > I think that you are asking about running Scratch on Bert Freudenberg's
> > SqueakJS, which is a modern Squeak virtual machine implemented entirely
> > in JavaScript for HML5, rather than the traditional compiled virtual
> > machines that run on operating systems such as Linux and Windows.
> >
> > If I understand your question correctly, you are asking about how to
> > run Scratch on SqueakJS locally on your PC, and you want to understand
> > where the Scratch files are stored on your PC.
> >
> > I do not have good answers to your questions but I am sure that others
> > on this list can help. I am also CC'ing the squeak-dev mailing list
> > where some of the real Scratch and SqueakJS experts reside.
> >
> > Here are some useful links for SqueakJS information:
> >
> > ?? https://squeak.js.org/
> > ?? http://try.squeak.org/
> > ?? https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/SqueakJS
> >
> > And for Scratch:
> >
> > ??
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-new-version-of-scratch-for-raspberry-pi-now-with-added-gpio/
> > ?? https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/test-tims-nuscratch-beta/
> > ?? https://github.com/raspberrypi/scratch
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 01:01:57AM +0000, stefano federici wrote:
> > >??
> > >?? I managed running ScratchJS locally by saving the page
> https://squeak.js.org/run/ to my PC and the dragging my Scratch.image
> into the page.
> > >
> > > What I don't know is where the SqueakJS file system is stored. When I
> open the File>Open dialog I can see the SqueakJS and ScratchProjects
> folders. Where are they stored in my PC?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Stefano Federici
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > Universit?? degli Studi di Cagliari
> > > Facolt?? di Studi Umanistici
> > > Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia e Filosofia
> > > Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, Italia
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > Tel: +39 349 818 1955 Fax: +39 070 675 7113
> > >
> > >?? ?? ?? Il venerd?? 7 febbraio 2020, 21:39:50 CET, stefano federici <
> s_federici at yahoo.com> ha scritto:??
> > >??
> > >?? Dear All,
> > > I have two questions about ScratchJS (that I think is an awesome
> project):
> > > - is it possible to run ScratchJS locally? I tried to run index.html
> in the SqueakJS-master\scratch folder, but I just got a black square in the
> upper left corner
> > > - can I open local projects in ScratchJS?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your help
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Stefano Federici
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > Universit?? degli Studi di Cagliari
> > > Facolt?? di Studi Umanistici
> >
> > > Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia e Filosofia
> > > Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, Italia
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > Tel: +39 349 818 1955 Fax: +39 070 675 7113??
>
>
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