I'm creating a game on Scratch 3, however, when I'm finished with it, I want to convert it to an .exe file. How do I do this?
I've been interested in game development for a long time, and have even tried Unity before, but I'm just a beginner meaning it was too difficult for me. So I turned to Scratch.
Yes, It is possible! ...But it's kinda complex,
Bear with me!
First, Take your sb3 file and convert it into a sb2. To do this I recommend using rexscratch's sb3tosb2 tool. Found here: https://github.com/RexScratch/sb3tosb2
Make sure you have python installed, if you don't, google how to install it. (it's easy).
Next, Click Clone or Download then click Download ZIP. Once that is downloaded, Open the zip, go to the next folder, and execute sb3tosb2.py . This will then ask for a sb3 file, Navigate to the sb3 file you have and select it. It may say it wants to work in compatibility mode, if it does, Just accept it. It will finish up and ask you where to put a sb2 file, just place it on your desktop and name it something.
Secondly, We need to use a program called junebeetle, Don't worry, it's a web based one, found here: https://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/
Click open scratch file. It will ask for a sb2, Navigate to where you put the sb2 file and open it. If you want you can customize how it will open, you can. I like to use the auto start function, and fullscreen. Don't mess with the resolution unless you know not how to screw-up aspect-ratios. Then click "Convert to SWF" This will then download the SWF version the scratch game, simply name it what you want and leave it.
Finally, you need to convert the SWF file to an EXE, There are plenty of ways to do this, but for ease, I recommend using a lite file converter. SWF Tools is a good one found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swftools/files/SwF_To_eXe/Swf2eXe_Latest.zip/download
Let it download and then extract the zip file's content to your desktop or downloads folder. Then open the exe file inside the folder from the zip file you just extracted.
Almost there! Click "Add a file" Then, you guessed it, Navigate to the SWF file that was spat out from the conversion of the sb2. Then click "Convert" Let it do its thing, and soon it will finish. Boom, Done. To find your exe file, go to where you stored the SWF to EXE converter, go to the "Output" Folder, and infront of you, is your EXE File! Note: Your anti-virus might freakout, this is normal when making new programs.
Also, Some fonts may break, This is just a side effect of the sb3 to sb2 conversion due to the fact that there is currently no way to convert sb3 to SWF.
Hopefully that was easy enough to understand. It is a complicated process, But yields results!
If you have any issues, Just Ask! I can help!
You could use the TurboWarp Packager. It's free and safe. https://packager.turbowarp.org/
There might not be a specific or direct way to convert a Sb3 File to an exe file but You can do it indirectly in a few steps which might be kind of lengthy but works.
When your SB3 project is done, go to https://sheeptester.github.io/htmlifier/
And convert your sb3 file to html.
From there you can convert the html file you got just now to an exe file, but not as you might expect it to. You cannot convert an html page to an exe file so what you can do is add the html webpage (the scratch game now converted to a html webpage) as an 'embed' file in the software such as, like Unity or Visual Basic, as they allow html webpages to be embedded in a project. Then you can add features and stuff, then publish or export your project as an exe file.
I know the process is really lengthy and I practically just wrote a long boring thesis but this might be the only way you can convert scratch to exe.
Hope my answer helps!
Hasta La Vista
Convert your Scratch project to HTML using Scratch HTMLifier: https://sheeptester.github.io/words-go-here/htmlifier/
Download NW.js and put its files (nw.exe, ...) in a directory. Create a package.json file in that directory that should look like this:
{
"name": "Project",
"main": "project.html"
}
(replace Project with the name of your project and project.html with the name of your HTML file).
Make sure that your project runs when you start nw.exe.
Use any tool to turn your folder into a self-extracting archive.
See also: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/341617/
use https://packager.turbowarp.org/
Using simple setting you can export without any problems.
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Currently, there is no software or smart javascript tricks that can convert .sb3 files into .exe files. You could use an .sb2 file but you need to use Scratch 2.0. There are developers working on conversion programs that do .sb3 to .exe but that will take a while. I would recommend using Scratch 2.0 if you want to convert your Scratch games to an executable.
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So I would like to know if it's possible to write a script that will download a sources like an .exe or .msi from a website like Git or any other website that I provide the right url.
My goal is to dowload the .exe or .msi compare his version to the soft already installed then either update it or do nothing depending the case ( This part will be easy since I already wrote it)
But since I don't know if it's possible to dowload a file and after some search I didn't find anything that was working for me at least.
Hope you guys can guide me to the light
My nine year old son is applying to participate in a programming contest. Any language is allowed, and he wants to use Scratch. But the application requires an ascii text listing of a program to solve a specified preliminary problem. They will not accept a PNG screenshot, or Scratch's binary format. So how does he get an ascii listing of his program? If it is impossible (as I suspect) then I will just read his program and retype it into an ascii editor.
You have a few options here.
If you're using Scratch 1.4, you can save a text-only project summary. Shift-click the File menu, then Write project Summary.
This functionality is coming soon (hopefully) to Scratch 2.0. UPDATE: It has been added.
You can also get a text-based representation of all the blocks using the Scratchblocks generator.
Or, you can save the 2.0 project as myproject.sb2, rename to myproject.zip, unpack the ZIP, and take the project.json file.
Unfortunately, none of these methods can easily be imported back into Scratch.
http://scratchblocks.github.io will convert your project into scratchblocks format. It is exactly what you are looking for.
You can download and edit the json script for the Scratch project. It can then be uploaded to replace the existing project. (This is also a great way to back-up and deploy projects)
From the "See Inside" screen, File->Download to your computer.
Rename the file to have a ".zip" extension instead of just ".sb2".
Unzip the file to edit the "project.json" file.
Edit the json code as desired.
Reassemble the zip file
Remove the ".zip" extension. (Back to ".sb2")
Update the Scratch project by going to the original project and selecting File->Upload from your computer.
I'm making a Lua game using the 2D framework 'LÖVE'.
I needed to know HOW to make a .exe file with it! I've done the command line, sucessfully zipped up my main.lua and the image, I've renamed the file extension to .exe!! When I run the .exe, I get a file extracting application coming up. This is not supposed to happen, right? I want it to be run as a game, not as a self-extracting application. Help?
From the sounds of it, you are trying to save your 'lovechive' with an .exe extension; your archiver is probably 'helpfully' assuming you meant to create a self extractor, which you didn't.
Okay, lets start by talking about how runable 'lovechives' work:
When love.exe starts up, it first checks its own name, if its called something other than love or love.exe it immediately checks to see if there is somethng stuck to its end. if there is, then it tries to interpret it as if it were a 'lovechive'.
So basically, we want to stick a zip-file to love's bottom (don't worry, it likes it).
Start by creating an ordinary zip archive of you game directory.
Remember to check for anything you don't actually mean to ship; plenty of love games have gone out containing backup copies of the source code, test artwork, and peoples' shopping lists. Don't be a statistic.
The filename is irrelevant for what were are doing here, so don't worry about the usual step of renaming it to a .love. just make sure that what you have is an plain-ol' ordinary zip.
The next step depends on your host platform, but basically you now need to do the whole "stick it to love's bottom' part now, generally this is done from the command-line:
On windows, the command is:
copy /b love.exe+YourGame.zip TheGame.exe
Where love.exe is the name of the main 'love' executable YourGame.zip is the name of zip file containing your game, and TheGame.exe is what you want the final game executable to be named.
On Linux or OSX, the command is:
cat love YourGame.zip > TheGame
Where love is the name of the main 'love' executable, YourGame.zip is the name of zip file containing your game, and TheGame is what you want the final game executable to be named.
These substituting the relevant filenames should let you produce versions for Linux, and Windows
(All I know about making 'merged' OSX Apps is that its more complicated.)
For the record, it is utterly trivial to extract files from the 'merged' game. Usually nothing more than changing the file extension, sometimes not even that.
And no, zip encryption doesn't help here; it won't run because love can't read the archive. (quite sensibly, really.)
Finally, If you are distributing to the Love community, they generally prefer that you just give them the 'lovechive.'
From https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution :
Here's how to do it on Windows. In a console, type this:
copy /b love.exe+game.love game.exe
Then, all you have to do is zip game.exe and required DLLs, and distribute them. Yes; this does mean that the game will have a private copy of LÖVE, but there's nothing wrong with that. It also means that you will have to create one package for each platform you would like to support, or simply offer the .love alone for the other platforms.
Within the Netbeans 6.5's Tools -> Options -> Fonts & Colors -> Syntax dialog, you have the ability to change the look and feel of the Netbeans text editor. When you select a language, you are presented with a preview of your font/color scheme. However, when I preview Java, there are far more options for syntax changes than are being displayed in that preview window. If I were able to view a more robust piece of code, I'd be able to see the immediate effect of more of the options.
How can I supply a preview document to view my font/color changes?
UPDATE:
After looking into this some more, I've been able to narrow down the problem a bit. From what I can tell, everything in Netbeans is considered a plugin. The GUI editor is a plugin, and even the text editor is a plugin. This means that what ever piece of Netbeans that actually analyzes Java code and does syntax highlights is also a plugin (since Java is just one of many languages Netbeans highlights, it makes sense this is a plugin).
I think fromvega is on the right track with his suggestion. The tutorial for creating a manifest file editing plugin pointed me in the right direction. The tutorial eludes to a file used as a sample document used for font/color previews. It tells you how to create one inside this new plugin project. (Located in "Registering the Options in the NetBeans System Filesystem", part 4. About 4/5 of the way down the page.)
My next line of thought was to look for the Java syntax editing mode plugin and find this file and update it with a richer example file. I looked in the installation directory and came up empty, but I found what looks like the appropriate files within my user settings directory. There is a config directory with a lot of subfolders within my user directory (Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\saterus.netbeans\config).
I've been poking around inside this directory a bit, but have only found the xml files the manifest tutorial talks about. I have been unable to find the extensionless sample file for the Java plugin that I believe should be there.
Since I've hit a brick wall for the moment, I thought I'd toss it back to the SO community and see if you guys might make the last leap and find the solution.
Just for anyone who wants to alter this themselves it is possible on a unix machine to use grep to locate the file i.e.
grep -lr "some part of the current sample code" /path/to/netbeans
I used this method to locate the ruby example filename and from that identified that it is kept in org-netbeans-modules-ruby.jar as a file called RubyExample. By simply altering that file I was able to construct a better sample file for my own use.
Hope this helps someone!
The document which is displayed (for each mime type) is specified in a particular folder in the "system file system" (which is a NetBeans concept which is a virtual file system composed from contributions from individual modules; this is how functionality is dynamically registered in NetBeans).
Modules typically specify their system file system contributions in a file named "layer.xml" in the plugin. The create plugin templates typically offer to create this for you.
For example, here's how the Python example is registered:
<filesystem>
...
<folder name="OptionsDialog">
<folder name="PreviewExamples">
<folder name="text">
<file name="x-python" url="PythonExample.py"/>
</folder>
</folder>
...
Here, PythonExample.py is a sample file in the same directory as the layer file.
Therefore, what you need to do is create a plugin which overrides the existing registration(s) for the mime type(s) you care about and provide alternate sample documents. You may need to hide the existing registration first (see the _hidden
part from http://doc.javanb.com/netbeans-api-javadoc-5-0-0/org-openide-filesystems/org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html ).
Hopefully this guides you in the right direction.
However, in thinking about it, we probably ought to make the preview area editable - so people can cut & paste whatever codefragment they care about right in there. This wouldn't be persistent, so whenever you change languages you get the original samples back - but it provides a quick way to see your own code. This shouldn't be just for the Fonts & Colors customization, but for the Formatting preview panels as well.
I've filed an issue against NetBeans for this:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=155964
-- Tor
I think you can only accomplish that with a new plugin, since you need somekind of parsing to define what is what.
Give a look a these tutorials, I haven't read them in details but they seem to show you how to do what you want:
http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-mfsyntax.html
http://www.antonioshome.net/kitchen/netbeans/nbms-coloring.php
I've recently started working with Aptana and Eclipse Monkey. What I want to do now is to create a script that saves a file then uploads it to a FTP.
Problem is that Eclipse Monkey is VERY poorly documented and Google returned only unrelated results.
I've made it upload the file, but I need the script to save the file before uploading.
sync.uploadCurrentEditor();
Do you know any resource for Eclipse Monkey with methods,etc ?
Check this out, it has the solution for your problem:
http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?t=5216
Edit; to be more specific;
You need to add the following line into the meta-data piece at the top, so the script knows the reference 'editors':
* DOM: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dash/update/org.eclipse.eclipsemonkey.lang.javascript
After you've done that, you need to add the following line right before the sync. stuff;
editors.activeEditor.save();
That's it :)