With the lastet version of appinventor-sources, extensions don’t show the help link “More Information”, even if there is a correct URL.
I found “helpURL” is overwritten in ComponentProcessor.processDescriptions with the description string:
info.helpUrl = info.description.replaceAll(TYPE_PLACEHOLDER, name);
After deleting this line, “More Information” appears again and works as expected.
Moved to Open Source Development
Thanks for reporting it. We had that same bug at Kodular, and we thought it was an issue with our sources, not with AI itself.
If you want, open a PR to appinventor-sources. I will also make tests and see if it totally fixes it.
Yes, we should fix this. But it would also be useful if any PR includes a regression test so that we catch if a future change breaks the functionality before it’s merged.
Did you fix it in the latest version? Can I download it without recreating the problem?
Yes, it has been fixed with this commit: