Drag/drop within app inventor doesn’t seem to work:
In designer view I can’t drag elements from Palette to Component tree (but I can drop them into phone preview. The items then appear also in the component tree).
Similarly, I can’t rearrange elements in the component tree. For example I can’t rearrange three buttons, or move a label from one verticalArrangment to another.
This is an issue because I have too many elements, so that they are not visible (below the fold) on the phone preview in designer screen. So I can’t rearrange them in the phone preview nor in the component tree.
I have tried different browsers, cleared cache. restarted computer, tried different computers, always the same.
I’d appreciate your feedback as to what I am doing wrong or if there are some settings I need to change. Thank you for your time and support !
Set screen to Scrollable, then you can scroll in the designer to access components "below the fold" in order to re-arrange them.
If you do not need screen scrollable for your app, remember to unset it when you are finished, or to test any scrolling arrangements or components that you may have.
If you nest a tree of Arrangements, you can set branches to invisible (.Visible = false) in the Designer to allow other Arrangements to move up in the mock screen.
You cannot currently drag to the components tree, you drag them into the viewer and arrange them that way. That said, we are working on an update that will also allow for reordering components in the tree since this is sometimes easier than reordering them in the viewer. It may go out in the next release.
Thank you very much for clarifying that it is actually not possible to drag to the components tree, as well as for the helpful links and the work arounds which all do the trick ! Much appreciated ! What also worked was using the larger monitor as preview rather than a smaller phone view.