Help test nb199

[ABG]

This is quite weird.

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.

[uskiara]

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.

[Lito]

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

(I will report this experience in my curriculum)

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

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[Horizon]

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!

@ewpatton

Update runtime to Java 17

[wikki74]

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

[Boban]

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

• Translator component
• FirebaseStorage extension

Partial project loading issue and UI gone mad

No need for me to upload the updated project as he can just redownload the above project and update the extension by himself however, I actually found a bug in Translator component he was using, the companion screen refreshes automatically as you go from to Designer/Blocks or in Block when you move them around screen refreshes it self automatically each time you move them.. testTranslatorCompBug.aia (1.4 KB) Another thread with extension instead P.S. There may be more components/extensions …

[ewpatton]

ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu has been updated with the latest release candidate. In addition to the previous changes, this most recent update includes further enhancements of the ListView component and fixes an issue in the companion information dialog that prevented a companion from being downloaded by Chrome due to a mismatch in URL schemes.

[Lito]

@ewpatton

ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu

Will these updates be part of [https://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/] at some point?

Lito

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[AyProductions]

Probably it will be updated at the end (near the release)

[TIMAI2]

Listview, while you are working on it:

• introduce padding around all inner elements of a listview element (that is: image, main text, detail text), so that they do not display-

rightnexttoeachother

and against the left edge of the listview element container.

[TIMAI2]

@ewpatton

Make help popups for components/properties draggable

Which popups are we talking about here ?

[ewpatton]

When you click on the ? icon next to the property name in the designer, a help window appears. In production, this blocks the property value. on ai2-test, you can now drag the title to move it elsewhere on the screen if needed.

[TIMAI2]

Ah yes. Works well.

[ewpatton]

This update is likely to be released early next week.

[Patryk_F]

On github in the ListView PR I reported a compilation error when we add ListView to the project.

[ewpatton]

At the moment we believe this was an issue with the particular machine being assigned build jobs for ai2-test. It seems to have been resolved by using a different machine and we haven't been able to replicate it with local builds.

[Patryk_F]

The strange thing is that it was possible to compile another project that also contained ListView but also an additional extension. I tried both projects several times and it was repeatable. I'll try again today.

[ewpatton]

There were multiple machines in the cluster, so we've removed the one we think was being problematic.

[Patryk_F]

Ok, now it compiles. I found another problem in the ListView related to the search bar. The logic behind the dark theme doesn't seem to work. I have the default theme of the device set in the app, and the dark theme set on the phone. If the entire ListView takes on the colors set in the properties, maybe set the EditText color to transparent so that it takes on the ListView background color, and set the text color to the MainText color? And the second problem I mentioned on github is the missing margin on the right side of the image in ListView.

Edit:

I also forgot to restore the Refresh block and mark it as Depracated. This will prevent any potential damage to the project if someone used this block.