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Scratchpad Canvas Demo

I’ve been trying to put together a reasonable demo movie for the Scratchpad. Something that shows it in action and gives an idea of how you might use it. This video is, I think, close to what we need, but it could use a couple of additional features: The Inspect menu to show object inspection got cut out. And copying and pasting the resulting text into a script file for inclusion in a web-page. Still, I think you can extrapolate that from my mumbled audio.

Video Link (29MB, WebM video)

Take a look. Send comments. Better yet, make your own Scratchpad demos and we’ll include them on the Devtools blog and Scratchpad documentation page!

I’d love to see the Scratchpad get some inputs and outputs, be it files or at least text-areas. I regularly find myself wanting to perform some transformations on text or XML and Scratchpad would help if it could open a window/panel with a text area, let me paste my data and then reference it (as a string) from the code. The transformed text would then be sent to another text area with a statement similar to “output1 = s;”.

I’ve been using a custom made HTML page so far (with three inputs and one output) and I find it very useful.

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Sorry, off-topic, where can I get your wallpaper?

ever heard of jsfiddle?

yes. it is awesome.

Love it, great idea. Don’t know if the name exists but can I suggest calling it ‘JS Coaster’ (a place to put your java on, get it?)

Khanh Le: http://blog.seanmartell.com/2011/04/21/nightly-and-aurora-space-quest-goodies/

funny.

I’d love to see the ability to write HTML in the Scratchapd as well, something like jsfiddle (which is awesome btw) but integrated into the browser!

I don’t understand Java, every time I see a page of it, I gt confused. It seems excessively complicated. Can someone send me a surce of an easy introduction to Java?

mark: This is JavaSCRIPT. Not Java. Though somewhat similar in appearance, JavaScript is a different animal.

Check out: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ (online, downloadable, free).