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Play sound and play sound until done appear to do the same
thing, but there is an important difference between them. If you
snap two play sound blocks together then Scratch plays both
sounds at the same time. But with a play sound until done block,
Scratch will play the sound file all the way to the end before
running the blocks below.
4.9 The Paint Editor
Although it cannot compete with the features of dedicated
software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Scratch’s Paint
Editor has all of the tools that you need to draw sprites from
within Scratch.
Figure 8. The Paint Editor
1 Tools.
2 Options. This area changes depending on the tool you select.
3 Color palettes. Use these to change the color that you draw with.
4 Sets the center point of the picture. You can use this for controlling
how sprites rotate and where on the picture the location variables of
the sprite refer to.
5 Zoom. Click the - button to look at your picture from further away,
or the + button to view your picture close up.
6 Drawing area.