Displaying a Scratch Project (.SB) file within a Delphi EXE FIle

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I would like to Display a Scratch Project (.SB) file within my Delphi EXE file. I would like to know if it is possible to display and build the Scratch Project into your Delphi Project.

I wish to make a small game in Scratch and then use the game within my Delphi Application without the need of the Scratch IDE. Perhaps a 3rd party delphi tool or component or something that can help me achieve this would also be nice.

Is this possible? How can this be done?

You wish to host scratch inside your Delphi app? I doubt that is possible. — David Heffernan, Feb 10 '15 at 12:22
The [1.4 API](http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_API_%281.4%29) looks to exists only for querying the website; no luck there IMO. — Jan Doggen, Feb 10 '15 at 12:42
Yes, I wish to display and host the Scratch project inside my Delphi App. — Bazooka Studios, Feb 10 '15 at 13:09
There's an abhorrent lack of technical documentation (probably because it seems designed for small children) but it looks like it might be browser based (HTML5?). Could you just host a WebBrowser control in your application if so? — J..., Feb 10 '15 at 13:45
@DavidHeffernan ...but does it run in browser? It looks like an online IDE to me. Does `TWebBrowser` or `TChromium` allow hosting java applets? That's about the closest thing I can dream of that might be a solution. — J..., Feb 10 '15 at 13:51
@J... I suppose that's possible. I think you'd need to get the source and try. — David Heffernan, Feb 10 '15 at 13:56
It really doesn't matter how I display it. As long as it can be displayed and used inside my Delphi Application without the need of the Scratch IDE. — Bazooka Studios, Feb 11 '15 at 09:31
@Scimonster That works too - as long as the web browser component can render it then it should work. — J..., Feb 11 '15 at 17:07
Ok, so how do I let the TWebBrowser component render it? Because currently the Scratch File is .SB and I will need to put it within the EXE or it can even be read from the files, but it needs to be displayed in the App somehow. — Bazooka Studios, Feb 12 '15 at 12:03
I am really curious as to what the point of having it in your application is. — Andrea Raimondi, Apr 06 '15 at 17:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '15 at 10:39

It's possible, like everything, but it's not been done AFAIK, which means it's going to be hard work.

You have a few choices:

Scratch is normally embedded within web sites as a Flash object. If you can embed Flash media, that is a solution.
Some Scratch-inspired systems like BYOB export to exe. You could look into how they do that to use your project (Scratch and BYOB
are compatible enough to load your project and export it after
minor changes)
If you don't like these, then write your own Scratch interpreter for Delphi. Scratch sprites are objects, their behaviour is straightforward enough, the Scratch projects are easily parsed (it's XML), now - off you go!

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 21 '16 at 19:57

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I am assuming that you want to port a scratch program to .EXE. If this is the case, then you can install BYOB.
After doing this, you can convert your scratch project to a BYOB project and load it into BYOB.
Then, go to Share->Compile this project, and it will generate a .EXE for you.

edited Feb 21 '16 at 19:57

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answered Feb 21 '16 at 19:28

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