Help test nb205

[ewpatton]

Hello everyone,

We are preparing the next release of App Inventor, nb205. The server at ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu has been updated with the following changes:

• New WebRTC library. In particular, if you are using older Android versions (especially Android 4.x and 5.x) we'd like confirmation that this version continues to work.
• New procedure blocks now appear under a "More..." category
• Fix an issue where dragging multiple blocks to the backpack would only add one block
• Fix an issue where matrix block parameters did not align correctly with other blocks
• Add missing documentation for the new procedure blocks
• Add a new CloudDB data explorer tool under CloudDB properties

Please leave a comment with any bugs you encounter in this new version.

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

[TIMAI2]

ai2-test.code... yet ?

[ewpatton]

My guess is we won't transition to a code-based backend for ai2-test until we turn off the infrastructure for ai2 this summer.

[TIMAI2]

@ewpatton

New procedure blocks now appear under a "More..." category

Good to see this being tidied up, I consistently fail to find the correct block for my procedures

If additional sectioning is possible, perhaps user generated procedure blocks could also have their own section?

[ABG]

Regarding the Procedure branch ...
The name 'More' needs work. Purple color isn't enough.

If 'Anonymous Procedures' won't fit the pallette pane, I propose the term 'Thunks'.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+thunk

[ABG]

The CloudDb editor is a work of beauty

I like being able to climb the tree and edit in place.

[ABG]

The CloudDB Data Editor needs testing by some one who updates it from an IOT project (not me), presumably without the AI2 markup, to test its robustness.

[Mark_Friedman]

@ABG

If 'Anonymous Procedures' won't fit the pallette pane, I propose the term 'Thunks'.

Technically, “thunk” usually refers to a procedure that takes no arguments. “Closure” might be a somewhat better term, though, like thunks, they can, in theory, be named.

-Mark

[ABG]

Closures it is

[Kevinkun]

I found this on nb204b:

parameter is not recognized in anonymous procedure

[ABG]

Here's a possible test for the CloudDB data console, note for later when available...

Upload a matrix to CloudDB and see if it breaks the formatting on the console.

Results:

I should go try to recover that and see if it survived as a matrix ...

It look like a matrix.

[JosAIF]

Hey @ABG I didn’t think of Matrices; I’ll have a look.

[yashsrv]

Hi @Kevinkun

This issue is fixed in this PR

Fix #3898: anonymous procedure block missing lexical scope for local variables (#3918)