Here's an unfortunate bug:
I asked a user for a project .aia export, and its procedure detonated on arrival, scattering its blocks across the workspace. (False alarm, just a slob)
that might be because my Remove Unused blocks isn't working.
App inventor has a very scary new interface
Hi,
I didn't touch my program for a few days, but when I tried to correct some of my mistakes today, I was scared by the new interface. First, I chose the classic style, but when I opened the program, I found that
- the positions of the blocks weren't in their old positions, and many blocks even overlapped with each other.
- when I tried to move a block back to its old position by pressing on the block with the mouse, and tried to move a little bit further away, the screen then suddenly scrolled very fast, and the block was moved a long distance away. That means I can't drag a block to a position where I really want. I had a hard time to move the block back to its old position by dragging the block a little bit further in about 1/4 sec, and then released the mouse button quickly, and at last I successfully moved the block to a position close to the position I wanted after 10 and more tries.
Now, I would like to know can we have our old interface (including program loading and operating) back in the future as an option. I dare not do anything now for I don't have the confidence with the new interface.
Thanks in advance
Yours truly,
Anthony Chow
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[BUG nb200] All Block disabling
It happened to me that by mistake I commanded disabling on the grid which as a result disabled everything in the project. Apart from the slowness with which this operation is carried out, it is detrimental because if UNDO is done this re-enables everything that was disabled even what was done voluntarily. During development it is normal for me to temporarily disable some blocks to think about them better and possibly later re-enable them. With the UNDO it happened that nothing worked anymore and I had to slowly disable what was necessary again. I think disabling the entire project should be prevented or at least done after a warning message.
This should be reclassified under the bug report for the regression of the right click improvement in the blocks editor.
Can't get to my PC for some hours to find it.
Hi Ferran,
May be you found something similar to what I reported here?
You must be right about the reason for the blocks to become bigger.
I checked that the same happens in my old projects in Scratch
(May be both AppInventor and Scratch use a common interface to display blocks ¿called blockly?)
Yes.It is the same mistake.
When you click on the All Component window, it gets smaller and an error occurs when you try to add a label in the tabular layout, causing the tabular layout to become larger and causing problems with labels overlapping. How do I return it to its original state?
The blocks part is very slow
Hello, I have an application created with Inventor for 5 years, the truth is that it is perfect, I always like to go in and improve it from Firerox because it is quite large, but yesterday without increasing any block the movements from the blocks are very slow, it is practically impossible Basically, the computer I use is quite powerful and previously it was very fast and fluid, I don't know what is happening, thank you.
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For a large project, I always collapse all the blocks, only expand the one I'm working on.
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Hello, yes I also do exactly the same, the project has 20MB, but I have not increased any blocks, in December the block screen was very fluid and fast and now it works very very slowly, as I say, without increasing the size of the project , I have tried several browsers, I work with Firefox, thanks
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Dragging blocks to the Trash can scrolls the screen completely right to the end before the lid opens.
When deleting blocks, there is no longer a warning popup
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Yes. I also use large pojects, and I have noticed the same.
The projects are much slower to load and display (both in design and block screens).
You can even see a first incomplete view, and have to wait several seconds more for the full view.
Sticky Toffee Blocks
twice now this has happened. I have moved a blocked, but then it never actually drops, despite my efforts. Is this a new feature I am misunderstanding? Some sort of sticky key thing?
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The same happened to me (I use FireFox).
When trying to snap a block to another one, it does not snap, the block keep sticky selected, it goes around and it can't be released.
The interface is so unusable!
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It seems it's not just me with some issues. I like some of the new features, but added up, all the little faults can make it tedious. The scrolling, which I thought was fantastic, is way to sensitive. It feels as though the block is the trigger and not the XY position of the mouse, so scrolling is chaotic. The sticky toffee blocks, Tim's comment about the garbage bin; all my blocks fly left into never never land. I too have experienced the slow down whilst moving things around in a larger file, 6 Mb and up. There was always about 1.2 to 2 second delay in mouse activity. (In my case a touch pad) and then sometimes the block would click into a completely different receptacle in a complete random, unexplained spot, vacating the block that was there. I discovered that by moving the block slowly downwards that the correct receptacle would highlight but the sensitivity of the mouse pointer was being measured in singe pixels.
I trust that these issues are being taken care of, much like any new release of software, there will be bugs.
Is there anyway we can switch back and forth between new and old IDE in the meantime??
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Try the code server meanwhile, which is still on nb199
https://code.appinventor.mit.edu/login/
Taifun
get an odd log in screen and a couple ways to get in, but end in a brand new account either way. As in no access to my projects. I will try though and figure it out.
There isn't (seemingly) a way to log in with an existing account, only anonymous and a google account which, like I said, ends in a brand new account screen.
The companion app will also be the wrong version on your chromebook (if you updated to 2.74), so the code server is not really available to you...