Is ( Taifun's ) TextBox ( extension) still relevant?

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Hi. Over a year ago I made an app that used your textbox extension. It was great, thank you.

I've started working on a new app just this evening and needed to import your extension. So I downloaded it from the link on your website, and as soon as I uploaded the extension I got an error. " Unable to load extensions.java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
Note: You will not see another error reported for 5 seconds."

Is this textbox extension of yours obsolete? Have you made something to replace it?

Appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thanks!

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This is a general issue of the companion app, see also

Taifun

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To help the App Inventor team in fixing this issue, use logcat

If you can capture logcat output, it would be helpful. There are some special debuging logs in 2.73t2. The logcat command to use is:

logcat '*:s,ReplForm:d"

This will filter out everythin but the "interesting" lines.

Taifun

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Thank you for your prompt response. I will have a look at the resources you've shared. In the meantime though it looks like I found an alternative that works. Appreciate your help and looking forward to using your extension again.

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Use this companion version

Remember: 2.73d1u is intended for ai2, not ai2-test and you will need the click the "Not Now" button.

And let us know, if it works for you now

Taifun