Scrap

Scrap is a new block based programming language with the aim towards advanced users. It is written in pure C and mostly inspired by other block based languages such as Scratch and its forks such as Turbowarp.

Warning

Scrap is currently in Beta stage. Some features may be missing or break, so use with caution!

Notable advantages from scratch

• The addition of separate else if, else blocks (C-end blocks as i call them), which eliminates a lot of nested checks with if-else blocks (i.e. more flexible variant of if-else block in Snap!)
• Variables can have a lifetime, which avoids variable name conflicts and allows to make temporary variables
• Custom blocks can return values and can be used as an argument for other block
• Various string manipulation blocks and bitwise operator blocks
• Data type conversion functions
• More strict checks for [[] = []] and [[] != []] blocks. Now they are case sensitive and will check data type for equality
• Lists are now a data type instead of a different type of variable, this allows nesting lists inside a list
• The code runs in a separate thread. This solves some performance issues compared to Scratch
• Modularized interface. Most of the interface can be rearranged or moved to another tab

Controls

• Click on blocks to pick up them, click again to drop them
• Hold Ctrl to take single block, Alt to duplicate blocks and Shift to pickup/drop multiple block chains
• Hold left mouse button to move around code space
• Holding middle mouse button will do the same, except it works everywhere
• Press Tab to jump to chain in code base (Useful if you got lost in code base)
• Press F5 to run the project. Press F6 to stop it.
• Press arrow keys while the block is highlighted to move the block cursor around
• Press Enter to enter the highlighted text box and Esc to leave that text box
• Press S to open block search menu

Binary Installation

Github releases

See Releases page for all available download options for Windows and Linux

AUR

Scrap is now available for download from Arch User Repository (AUR) as scrap-git package. This package will download and build latest Scrap commit from git

To install Scrap from AUR you can use your preferred AUR helper, for example with yay:

yay -S scrap-git

Building

Dependencies

Scrap requires these dependencies to run:

• gettext

Currently Scrap can be built for Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD.

Download commands for Windows (MSYS2 UCRT64)

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc make gettext
ln -sf "${MSYSTEM_PREFIX}/bin/windres.exe" "${MSYSTEM_PREFIX}/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres"

Download commands for Debian

sudo apt install libxcursor-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev gettext

Download commands for Arch linux

Download command for arch-based distributions:

sudo pacman -S libx11 libxrandr libxi libxcursor libxinerama gettext

Download commands for OpenSUSE

Download command for openSUSE:

sudo zypper install libX11-devel libXrandr-devel libXi-devel libXcursor-devel libXinerama-devel gettext

Build

Before building the repo needs to be cloned along with its submodules. To do this, run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap.git
cd scrap

Windows build

NOTE: This guide will assume that you have MSYS2 installed and running on your system.

After that, run the following commands:

make -B TARGET=WINDOWS
./scrap.exe

NOTE: When running make clean MSYS2 will occasionally drop you into command prompt. To fix this, just type exit in the cmd and the cleanup process will proceed

Linux build

To build and run Scrap on linux you need to install gcc (10+) and make. After install, just run following commands:

make -j$(nproc)
./scrap

FreeBSD build

To build and run Scrap on FreeBSD you need to install gcc (10+) and gmake. After install, just run following commands:

gmake MAKE=gmake -j$(nproc)
./scrap

NixOS build

To build and run Scrap on NixOS, just run the following commands:

nix-shell
make -j$(nproc)
./scrap

MacOS build

Warning

MacOS build is not being tested right now, so it may not work properly or not at all, you have been warned!

To build and run Scrap on macOS, you need to install gcc (10+) and make. First, install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After that, you need to run the following commands:

brew install gettext
make -j$(nproc) TARGET=OSX
./scrap

Thanks to @arducat for MacOS support.

Screenshots

Wait, there is more?

In examples/ folder you can find some example code writen in Scrap that uses most features from Scrap

In extras/ folder you can find some various artwork made for Scrap. The splash art was made by @FlaffyTheBest, the logo was made by @Grisshink with some inspiration for logo from @unixource, the wallpaper was made by @Grisshink

License

All scrap code is licensed under the terms of zlib license.