circle-ext-best

A MakeCode Arcade Extension for Manipulating Circles

This MakeCode Arcade extension provides blocks that create and manipulate circle sprites. It is "Best" in a series of similar extensions dubbed good-better-best. A program using this extension must also install Arcade Sprite Data Extension from the Arcade dashboard. Alternatively, the extension arcade-sprite-data-revised can be used.

Why this Extension is Best

This extension is "Best" because unlike circle-ext-better ("Better")and circle-ext-good ("Good"), in this extension a circle is a sprite, which enables it to be used with all sprite blocks, e.g., , sprite properties, sprite arrays and on-sprite-overlap blocks. Although Better and Good have the same capabilities as Best, either they are awkard to use or obtuse to implement.

Example MakeCode Arcade Programs the Use this Extension

Breathing Circles

Other

Other

Custom Blocks in circle-ext-best

The line of code below should be a generated MakeCode block -- it is not

  myCircle = circle.createCircle(ndx, color)

The line of code below should be typescript -- it is.

  myCircle = circle.createCircle(ndx, color)

Blocks defined by this MakeCode Arcade Extension

Use as Extension

This repository can be added as an extension in MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on New Project
• click on Extensions under the gearwheel menu
• search for *https://github.com/wecodemakecode/circle-best-ext and import

Edit this project

To edit this repository in MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on Import then click on Import URL
• paste *https://github.com/wecodemakecode/circle-best-ext and click import

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