Before the new update to the appearance of MIT you could copy and paste one screen to another. Is does not work any more. Any ideas on how you can now copy and paste a screen within a project?
ABG
February 7, 2025, 3:51pm
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I see Designer screen copy working for me at
I see the components being copied in the Designer, but they formerly were accompanied by their event blocks in the Blocks Editor.
This no longer happens.
[Component Paste lost blocks]
In this sample run, I
created a blank Screen3, no components and no blocks
switched back to Screen1,
highlighted Screen1 in the components tree panel
hit Ctrl-C
switched back to Screen3
highlighted Screen3 in the components tree panel
hit Ctrl-V
saw all the components pasted into Screen3
switched to the Block…
Do you need the blocks too?
Try a mass blocks png download using the AI2Helper browser extension at
then drag them into the Blocks Editor workspace of the target screen.
Taifun
February 7, 2025, 3:59pm
3
Connie_Nessan:
copy and paste a screen
the question is, why are you copying screens? this is considered bad programming practice...
DRY - Don't repeat yourself...
"Don't repeat yourself" (DRY), also known as "duplication is evil", is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place.
The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system". The principle has been formulated by Andy Hunt and...
you should separate data and logic and with for example only one screen together with the logic you can handle as much data as you want... no need to copy screens...
see also tip 1 here
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Use different screens wisely
Before starting to create another screen, first you should think about is it really necessary? See also Building apps with many screens and SteveJG's post about advantages/disadvantages , because in only one screen you also can use vertical arrangements to simulate different screens, just set the arrangements to visible = true/false as needed...
If you decided to use different screens, then you should switch them correctly, else you …
Taifun
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The same thing happened to me. On windows, instead of using CTRL + C, you have to use CTRL + INSERT, and instead of CTRL + V, you use SHIFT + INSERT.
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wow. Thanks for your information. This helps me a lot.
TIMAI2
February 18, 2025, 10:30pm
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Also works for Chrome on Linux (Xubuntu 24.04)
ABG
February 19, 2025, 4:51pm
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