putting in more than 3400 characters with the translation block will crash scratch, not entirely sure why.

- Does not use any cloud variables, but the limit is 256 chars
- Limit for Variables is 10240
- Limit for max characters with Google Translate is 5000
- Limit for the “ask _ and wait” block is unknown, but I’d assume it follows the same logic as regular variables.

The project that it is crashing on

If I could know why its crashing, or if the crashes are because of a bug, that would be very nice :]

Device that the crash occurs on:
iPad iOS 16.4, ChromeiOS 112.0.5615.46, No Flash version detected

Thank you!
-Tobii

What do you mean translation variable (can’t see it on mobile LOLL)
And can you send the code here?

medians wrote:

What do you mean translation variable (can’t see it on mobile LOLL)
And can you send the code here?

They mean the translation extension I believe.

medians wrote:

What do you mean translation variable (can’t see it on mobile LOLL)
And can you send the code here?

An image of the code that crashes it:

https://imgur.com/a/Sv0Ln6Z

My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 111.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
I clicked on it many times and I got 5760 text from copying and pasting hello.

I didn't experience any crash. Unless it's specifically for that project.

Knightbot63 wrote:

My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 111.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
I clicked on it many times and I got 5760 text from copying and pasting hello.

I didn't experience any crash. Unless it's specifically for that project.

Can you maybe try for my project?

09878901234321 wrote:

medians wrote:

What do you mean translation variable (can’t see it on mobile LOLL)
And can you send the code here?

They mean the translation extension I believe.

Yeahhh that didn’t exist in 2.0 LOLL

ItsMarlowTime wrote:

(#6)
Can you maybe try for my project?

Maybe because the language was invalid?

Now i can replicate:

Knightbot63 wrote:

Maybe because the language was invalid?

Now i can replicate:

Odd. Hope that someone on the scratch team can look into this and see why its causing a crash, this is pretty upsetting that it crashes, as its supposed to be for long strings of text, but apparently even with the limits on variable lengths, it still crashes when it really shouldn’t.

Also, I don’t think that the language is invalid. All the supported languages for scratch are what it uses.

ItsMarlowTime wrote:

(#9)
Also, I don’t think that the language is invalid. All the supported languages for scratch are what it uses.

Does the ask block ask for a specific language to translate or what words to translate?

Can replicate here with something that is 1582 characters long but not 632.

medians wrote:

Can replicate here with something that is 1582 characters long but not 632.

2.0 and 3.0 mixed together?!

KittyCatKayden wrote:

(#12)
2.0 and 3.0 mixed together?!

They're using browser extensions.


Translating long strings returns undefined, that is likely a bug.
Putting undefined in a shown list “crashes” the project player, but can be escaped by hiding the list and seeing outside then back inside; this is also a bug. Additionally, the project still runs during this “crash”, but cannot be saved (until you delete or change all the undefined list items and variables).


My browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Firefox 113.0, No Flash versions detected

KittyCatKayden wrote:

2.0 and 3.0 mixed together?!

I don't want to get muted again or have to type it again, so:
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/7147286/

CST1229 wrote:

KittyCatKayden wrote:

(#12)
2.0 and 3.0 mixed together?!

They're using browser extensions.


Translating long strings returns undefined, that is likely a bug.
Putting undefined in a shown list “crashes” the project player, but can be escaped by hiding the list and seeing outside then back inside; this is also a bug. Additionally, the project still runs during this “crash”, but cannot be saved (until you delete or change all the undefined list items and variables).


My browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Firefox 113.0, No Flash versions detected

I know they are using browser extensions, in fact I have them myself! But I don't have the 2.0 ones enabled since I'm used to the 3.0 design.