backslash

- a tosh-like programming language with a stupid name

whart

backslash allows you to make scratch projects with text code

it is designed for deno but it will probably work on other runtimes, maybe even in browser with some adjustments

how

step zero - bsl

bsl is the programming language made for backslash

there is documentation for it here

step one - dependencies

make sure you have deno installed

download/clone the source code into some folder, if you have git installed you can run git clone -r https://github.com/WlodekM/scratch-text-coding-thingy.git

and if you're downloading the zip from git hub, make sure to put TurboWarp's scratch-blocks in the tw-blocks folder

step two - project setup

make a folder for your project

in that folder make a project.prj.yaml file, the contents of it should be something like this

sprites:
  stage:
    stage: true
    name: Stage
    costumes:
      backdrop1:
        format: svg
        path: assets/empty.svg
    sounds:
    code: null
  sprite1:
    name: Main
    code: main.bsl # this is the file containing the code for this sprite
    costumes:
      costume1:
        format: svg
        path: assets/cat_dango.svg

it has the settings for your project

step three - writing the code

i'd recommend including base.js first, it has the base scratch blocks

#include <"blocks/js" "base.js">

i'd also recommend using the vscode extension if you're using that

step four - building the project

to build the project run deno -A /path/to/backslash/main.ts . if you're running this from project directory or deno -A main.ts /path/to/project/directory/ if you're running this from the backslash directory

after that a project.sb3 should pop up in the project folder, this is your built project, you can edit it in scratch/tw/[other fork] but it's not recommended

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btw if you like this tool thingy please star the repo and if youre in the tw discord dango the post

where stuff is in the code

uh types for stuffs in sb3 r in jsontypes.ts

main.ts makes the project json and runs the code conversion for every sprite

asttoblocks.ts converts text code to blocks

tshv2/ has stuff for parsing teh text code

wow dis is AWESUMSAUCE can i contribut?

ye

p.s.

this is barney86. i am sorry, i sadly could not stop wlodekm from making this unreadable