Controls
Contains flow control, messaging, looping, variables, and conditionals.
Sprites
Sprites are images or shapes that can have momentum and heading direction applied to them for animation and games.
Sound
Play and manipulate existing sound files or synthesize new sounds.
Arrays
Arrays are lists of things. You can add, remove, and loop over these lists.
Boolean
Booleans are either True or False. There are many operations for comparing and mixing them.
Date
Dates are used to represent a date and to do basic calculations.
Stage
Stage is the area where scripts are performed.
Colors
There are several ways to specify colors.
Images
Images are pictures loaded from the web. They can be positioned and resized.
Math
In addition to performing math on numbers you can also use many operations on arrays and vectors too.
Random
There are many types of randomness in Waterbear.
Vectors (Points)
Waterbear vectors are x,y coordinates that can be used as points, but also have a direction and magnitude (useful for speed, acceleration, distance).
Objects
Objects are general-purpose containers where you can associate names (keys) with objects (values) like in a dictionary.
Strings
Strings are simple bits of text. You can search them, combine them, and break them up.
The blocks below are for writing your text to the screen.
Shapes
Shapes are pictures made by drawing a geometric shape rather than loading an image file.
Rects
It turns out to be frequently useful to be able to represent a rectangle.
Input
Programs can get input from the mouse, touch, key presses, and more.
Geolocation
Where in the world is your progam running?
Sizes
A size captures both width and height in one convenient package.