Extension:Snapblocks

MediaWiki extensions manual

Snapblocks Release status: stable
Implementation	Tag
Description	Create Snap! blocks from text.
Author(s)	R4356th and ego-lay-atman-bay
Latest version	1.2.0
MediaWiki
License	MIT License
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net .
Tags snapblocks, scratchblocks, sb
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars

Snapblocks is an extension to display blocks from the Snap! programming language created by Jens Mönig and Brian Harvey in wiki articles. It is also a fork of the ScratchBlocks extension.

$wgSnapBlocksLangs = ['ja', 'zh_TW'];

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called Snapblocks in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'Snapblocks' );
  

• Configure languages if needed.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

By default, only English Snap! blocks are rendered. Add more languages like so:

Note: currently translations are somewhat broken, and only include Scratch primitives. Note that the TW is preceded by an underscore, not a hyphen. This variable is accessible through JS mw.config.get("wgSnapBlocksLangs")

Usage

There are three ways to create a snippet of Snap! blocks, which are nearly identical.

• Use <snapblocks> before and after your code to create a block level element displaying Snap code.
• Use <scratchblocks> before and after your code to create a block level element displaying Snap! code. This is kept from the ScratchBlocks extension, in order to make transitioning to Snapblocks easier.
• To create an inline-block element (that will show in the middle of the paragraph), enclose the code in <sb> tags.

<snapblocks>
repeat (5) {
  move (10) steps
}
say [Done!]
</snapblocks>

You can map over a list in Snap! with the <sb>(map (() @addInput) over @list)</sb> block.

All three tags take a version attribute, whose default value is snap. If specified as 2 or 3, the tag will render its blocks in Scratch 2.0 or 3.0 style respectively. You can also specify hc-3 for the Scratch 3.0 high contrast style, and snap-flat for the Snap! flat design.

For information on how to write Snapblocks code, visit https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Block_Plugin/Syntax.

See also

• Extension:ScratchBlocks
• Extension:SnapProjectEmbed
• Extension:ScratchProject