In Scratch 1.4 and 2.0, list blocks are a different color from variables. In the current spec they are all the same color. Is that wanted?
tmickel
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IMO they're totally different data types and should have different colors to reflect this.
towerofnix
on 16 Sep 2016
@liam4 I agree that they should have different colours, but I don't think variables are data types. Text strings and numbers are data types.
How about having "variables" and "lists" as categories in the palette?
Jonathan50
on 16 Sep 2016
Yeah, they're rather different data _containers_, not types, oops!
How about having "variables" and "lists" as categories in the palette?
But then we'd need another category, because nine categories is.. a sad number. :P
edit: actually, _eleven_ categories! Wow.
towerofnix
on 16 Sep 2016
Updated the blocks color spec to include a Lists color among the Data Category
Data - Vars
Primary: #FF8C1A
Secondary: #FF8000
Tertiary: #DB6E00
Data - Lists
Primary: #FF661A
Secondary: #FF5500
Tertiary: #E64D00
carljbowman
on 13 Dec 2016
Looks great. Thanks @carljbowman
thisandagain
on 13 Dec 2016
Whenever this is implemented, remember to update Blockly.Categories in core/constants.js so that lists can be styled separately from variable blocks with CSS
mrjacobbloom
on 22 Jan 2017
Tracking implementation in https://github.com/LLK/scratch-blocks/issues/1257
thisandagain
on 21 Nov 2017
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Updated the blocks color spec to include a Lists color among the Data Category
Data - Vars
Primary:
#FF8C1ASecondary:
#FF8000Tertiary:
#DB6E00Data - Lists
Primary:
#FF661ASecondary:
#FF5500Tertiary:
#E64D00