Bottom of blocks screen hidden by Privacy Policy and Terms of Use bar

Hi.

This is an improvement suggestion for the Blocks screen.

At the bottom of the screen, there is a bar that allows to accessing Privacy Policy and Terms and Accessibility.

This bar hides the lower part of the Blocks screen, where the horizontal scroll bar is located.

In addition, when you use Ctrl+F to find a piece of code in you app, most of the times you cannot see the block, variable, or whatever marked in grey, because it is displayed just at the bottom, in the area of the Blocks screen hidden by this bar.

In both cases, you need to scroll down (sliding down the most right scroll bar). But then the top part of the Blocks screen is hidden (where you can swap between Designer and Blocks screens).

Sometimes this vertical scroll happens accidentally (if you rotate the mouse wheel with the cursor on top of a comment box, instead of in the blocks canvas.

All of this is a nuisance. And it would be easily avoidable if the bottom bar didn't hide part of the block canvas.

Thanks for your attention.

Are you using the new UI or old UI?

I have the same issues whith the Neo UI.
Example with Firefox browser where the find text is hidden:

The old one

So that doesn't look to me like the privacy policy/accessibility link is covering the block workspace because the scrollbars are drawn by Blockly and represent the bottom of the workspace. The fact that they are visible there means there isn't an overlap. However, it does appear that the search feature doesn't account for the scrollbars when it's trying to focus the block in the workspace.

The fact is that the full block workspace is not shown.
You have to choose between loosing some space in the bottom, or not seeing the butons on top to toggle Designer/Blocks.

That's right. The scrollbar workspace hidden the results of the search feature.

Via the right-mouse menu in the Blocks work area, select 'Clean up Blocks'.

I would add that, although wide screens (desktop PC) are really good, especially for games, when it comes to using practical programs like App Inventor, CAD/CAM etc, square screens would be even better (still big, but square). When I talk to people about this, everyone I know who once had a square (or squarish) screen would love that to happen, but it seems the screen manufacturers are only interested in the gaming market.

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Same if you open the backpack.
The last item you sent to the backpack will be hidden and not accesible, until you scroll down the block screen with the most right scroll bar (not the block canvas, wich you can also move with the mouse wheel).

I'm struggling to visualize this based on what you're writing, so I'm wondering if it may be platform specific. Can you record a short video of the problem and post it here?

There you are.

It can only be seen in large apps with many arrangements in the screen,
In small apps the vertical scroll is very limited and nor the top nor the bottom part is hidden.