Country detectors

Canada-RedBeard

KingOfAwesome58219 wrote:
However broad it may be, Scratch shouldn't have to ask for your GPS location. I've seen many parents getting super angry in the forums because a project asked for microphone access and they think that Scratch is now going to record them and give them a virus (somehow).

Cool idea, not sure it's worth the confusion.
You can always have buttons at the start of the project that the user can pick to choose their language.

You do not need gps to find what country you are in - you can also find out which country someone's in via IP adress.

OmarCraftPC

Canada-RedBeard wrote:
KingOfAwesome58219 wrote:
However broad it may be, Scratch shouldn't have to ask for your GPS location. I've seen many parents getting super angry in the forums because a project asked for microphone access and they think that Scratch is now going to record them and give them a virus (somehow).

Cool idea, not sure it's worth the confusion.
You can always have buttons at the start of the project that the user can pick to choose their language.

You do not need gps to find what country you are in - you can also find out which country someone's in via IP adress.

How? I need a country detector for my game.

VedanshS933

jokebookservice1 wrote:
Maybe not country, but selected language. Some countries can have more than one official language

I actually think this is a great suggestion and would like to see it in Scratch 3.0 in the Sensing category.

India has a lot of languages.
A language block would be better in this case.

KingOfAwesome58219 wrote:
However broad it may be, Scratch shouldn't have to ask for your GPS location. I've seen many parents getting super angry in the forums because a project asked for microphone access and they think that Scratch is now going to record them and give them a virus (somehow).

Cool idea, not sure it's worth the confusion.
You can always have buttons at the start of the project that the user can pick to choose their language.

For this suggestion, no support for the aforementioned reason.

Last edited by VedanshS933 (Aug. 27, 2025 13:46:25)

luig64ds

Someone bad could go

when I receive [ thing]
if <country = (US)> then
broadcast [do thing]
End
if <country = (japan)> then
say [No]
end

Which scratch team would not be happy with

Last edited by luig64ds (Aug. 28, 2025 23:20:33)

CodeComet6161

luig64ds wrote:
Someone bad could go
when I receive [ thing]
if <country = (US)> then
broadcast [do thing]
End
if <country = (japan)> then
say [No]
end
Which scratch team would not be happy with

1. This doesn't have any problems, as you can just remove the code.
2. Please report any projects that try to restrict usage.

AndThenWat

Support especially for the people who said that the country block should take the chosen nation from user account pages when they signed up.

OmarCraftPC

luig64ds wrote:
Someone bad could go
when I receive [ thing]
if <country = (US)> then
broadcast [do thing]
End
if <country = (japan)> then
say [No]
end
Which scratch team would not be happy with

What about other countries, Also scratch used to have this:

(current [location v])

which was good

Dracandros

powercon5 wrote:
So
(Language::sensing)
I can see how that could work and would go along with

dude language blockalready exsist

mtaka4

VedanshS933 wrote:
jokebookservice1 wrote:
Maybe not country, but selected language. Some countries can have more than one official language

I actually think this is a great suggestion and would like to see it in Scratch 3.0 in the Sensing category.
India has a lot of languages.
A language block would be better in this case.

KingOfAwesome58219 wrote:
However broad it may be, Scratch shouldn't have to ask for your GPS location. I've seen many parents getting super angry in the forums because a project asked for microphone access and they think that Scratch is now going to record them and give them a virus (somehow).

Cool idea, not sure it's worth the confusion.
You can always have buttons at the start of the project that the user can pick to choose their language.
For this suggestion, no support for the aforementioned reason.

I think it's for the location used for your profile

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