Getting Help with Code Blocks
In addition to bookmarking and referring back to the tables provided in this chapter to find out what a given code block does, you can view help information for any Scratch code block by right-clicking on the code block in the blocks palette, as demonstrated in Figure 3.17.
Figure 3.17. Accessing help for a given Scratch code block.
Alternatively, you can right-click on a code block once it has been added to the scripts area to access a link to the block’s help file, as demonstrated in Figure 3.18.
Figure 3.18. Accessing help for a Scratch code block that has been added to the scripts area.
By clicking on the Help link in the popup menu that is displayed, you can display help information for that control. For example, Figure 3.19 shows the help information that is available for the forever code block.
As Figure 3.19 shows, the help information that is displayed explains the purpose of the code block and demonstrates its usage.