Help test nb199

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Our test server, ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu, has been updated with a release candidate for nb199. This version contains the following changes for web and Android:

Features:

  • New properties for ListView and performance improvements
  • Make help popups for components/properties draggable
  • Add dropdowns for the ChatBot Provider and Model properties

Bug fixes:

  • Fix the width of the right-hand panels in the designer view
  • Correct bad JSON in the dictionaries documentation
  • Fix an issue on Android 14 where some devices would not load extensions
  • Fix CSS issues around the footer
  • Fix an issue with oversized folders in the Neo UI
  • Fix hint text not applying in MockTextBoxBase
  • Fix some typos in adb logcat messages
  • Make ChatBot's System property use a large textbox

Internal changes:

  • Reenable tests for Map components disabled during SDK 34 update
  • Implement a template for GitHub pull requests for open source contributors
  • Move ChatBot proxy destination to App Inventor feature flags
  • Update protocol buffers library
  • Update runtime to Java 17
  • Force UTF-8 serialization when compiling Blockly translations on Windows

Please help us test this latest release. Since this is a components release, you will need to install the test companion from the server for any component related changes.

Cheers,
Evan W. Patton, Ph.D.
Lead Software Engineer, MIT App Inventor

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This is quite weird.

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I think I got the test server tangled up.

I lost patience with a Hebrew language tourism app with a bunch of screens from my junk heap, because it was taking forever to load into the Designer, so I switched to another junk heap project, a stock manager by another user.

Now my Designer screen also has a Blocks Pallette from the previous app, in addition to the Designer's Components Drawers.

(I also had switched back from Neo to Classic, to further confuse the server.)

P.S. an F5 cleared this up, eventually.
F5 = syrup of Ipecac for browsers.

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Dear all,
probablly this misalignment of the Android bottom bar (in landscape view, monitor size, it is shown on the right) has nothing to do with your current bug fixing list (I know you have already taken into account of it), but it is stiil present.
Cheers.

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What honor to be a Beta-Tester of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology! :star2:

(I will report this experience in my curriculum) :page_facing_up:

Any way that this Beta version sees the projects saved in the Alpha version?

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I'm not entirely sure, but based on my observations, it seems that the Java runtime has been upgraded from version 8 to version 17. Please correct me!

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The Problem that hidden omponents are not showing even when the checkbox "Display hidden components in Viewer" is checked still exist

https://community.appinventor.mit.edu/t/display-hidden-component-in-viewer-not-working/122387/2

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Companion refresh it self on block move with some components/extensions

  • Translator component
  • FirebaseStorage extension