Problem with group editing of components

[ewpatton]

@Patryk_F

Do programmers MIT see what we’re reporting here?

Yes, we do.

@Patryk_F

However, it is MIT programmers who should verify that it can be improved. Well, unless it is impossible or it is too difficult?

It will be fixed. Please keep in mind that we are a small team and inevitably have to prioritize what to work on. We tend to oscillate between component and non-component releases. The last release was a component (+ bugfix) release, so this will probably make it into the next non-component (editor) release.

[ewpatton]

There is a potential fix deployed to ai2-test. Please take a look and let us know if you encounter this issue on that server.

Announcement post:

Testing the next release of MIT App Inventor (nb183)

Hello everyone, We are planning the next release of App Inventor for March 27th. ai2-test has been updated. This is a components release and will come with a new companion, which you can download from the test server (under Help > Companion Information). Some highlights in this release include: New components (Magnetometer, Navigation, Serial) New Screen properties to discover platform and version (e.g., customize behavior for Android or iOS) New blocks, including a block to iterate over dict…

[Patryk_F]

I tested several items in group edition and the problem did not occur. It’s good at this stage.

[Patryk_F]

It was good on the test server. Now there is a problem with selecting items for group editing. I press CTRL and when selecting items an error appears:

notes = Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36
foundIn = nb183
faultData = java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
projectId = 5726151884013568