New App Inventor User Interface in Open Beta!

[bryon]

Wow! This is great news and kudos to @Venky! I am in no rush for this feature but looking forward to it!

Thank you!
-Bryon

[Kumaraswamy]

The search textbox could be much bigger to suit the new UI

[Kumaraswamy]

The width in the new UI isnt fixed and it changes depending on the component title.

[Susan_Lane]

I have a fix in the works for that.

[Lito]

Are suggestions for the Block Editor welcome in this topic?

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[HarshVardhanSolanki]

Yes, You can!

[Jimis]

[ewpatton]

This thread is just about the new UI. If you want to discuss potential block editor improvements, I'd first suggest you take a look at the following thread:

Technical Preview: Blockly v10 Update

Hello everyone, I have deployed an early tech preview server for the next Blockly update. Blockly is the library that drives the App Inventor block editor, and we last updated our copy of Blockly back in 2017! Since then, the Blockly team has made a number of architectural changes to Blockly, including the creation of themes and a plugin system. The theme mechanism will eventually tie into the new UI change to allow for dark theme support. For plugins, we have incorporated a selection of plugin…

[Susan_Lane]

What are you doing when you attempt to use this checkbox? When I tested it, it worked as expected.

[Jimis]

For some reason I can't see my objects anymore.I also loaded previous versions of my project and I have the same issue. I think there is something wrong with the interface cause I was able to see them. I have included .aia file
Jim_test_chkbox.aia (3.9 MB)

[Susan_Lane]

@Jimis

For some reason I can't see my objects anymore.I also loaded previous versions of my project and I have the same issue. I think there is something wrong with the interface cause I was able to see them. I have included .aia file

Can you you see the components in classic mode?

[ABG]

You set everything invisible.

The checkbox reveals all.

[Jimis]

Good point @ABC
I changed back to classic mode and it worked but it's not a permanent fix it seems. I explain

Neo mode
open >> jim_test_chkbox - not ok
change to Classic mode - ok
change to Neo mode - ok
open >> jim_test_chkbox2 - not ok

From there we have two cases

Case A
now if you try to open again jim_test_chkbox
open >> jim_test_chkbox - ok << still works ok

Case B
but if you try to do the same as before to jim_test_chkbox2 (changing to classic and back to Neo) then

jim_test_chkbox2 - ok
open >> jim_test_chkbox - not ok

which means jim_test_chkbox loses its "fix"

I have included the second file also for testing
Jim_test_chkbox2.aia (3.9 MB)

[Vishal_Nage1]

Same Problem Occur with me in Firefox (Linux Mint)

[ABG]

Confirmed

[Susan_Lane]

Huh, ok. This seems to work for me on Mac Firefox and Chrome.

Does it work for some invisible components and not others? This could be very annoying. I'll check your project, @Jimis

[Patryk_F]

It works fine in chrome on windows

[TIMAI2]

Paste All Blocks from Backpack not working for me.

[Som]

I have discovered another slight visual bug:

Correct me if I did sth wrong. (Settings or whatever)
Anyways, I like the new appereance! The already a bit old looking layout always bothered me a little bit…this update reminds me that the AI2 is by far not the „abandoned“ (dont undestand me wrong please), thanks.

Keep up the good work!

[Lito]

@Som

I have discovered another slight visual bug

This is not exactly a 'bug'... it is related to the size of the current window and the video resolution used...

Lito

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