Select, Copy, Paste component and Screen in Designer

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From version nb184 (July 30,2020), we can copy components and screens in the Designer.

http://ai2-test.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/other/editing-functions.html

- Select, Copy and Paste one o more components.

Copiar-Pegar
Copiar-Pegar862×596 89.6 KB

- Select multiple components and change a Property.

Select
Select794×678 99.7 KB

- Select and Copy one o more components and Paste it as text in a text editor, message, ...

Copiar-Pegar
Copiar-Pegar862×596 89.6 KB

notepadd
notepadd1007×313 80.1 KB

- Select Screen Copy and Paste it as text in a text editor, message, ...

screen1_sel
screen1_sel811×546 82.6 KB

notepadds
notepadds1014×554 122 KB

- Select and Copy Screen1, create Screen2, paste Screen1 in Screen2.

screen2b
screen2b874×630 104 KB

- Copy multiple files using drag and drop.

drops
drops900×429 139 KB

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This is a wonderfull addition to AI !!
Thanks for making this,
Han

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You could enable copying and pasting in the text fields of labels and pick lists. Now all long texts have to be entered manually.

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You can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for that.

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[This is the most recent and most relevant post on this topic so I'm posting here.]

There is an important part of this that no-one here mentioned. After you copy your component(s) and want to paste it into another app or part of the same app, you must select a relevant component to paste it into, like a screen or an arrangement. If you attempt to paste into a button or an image, you will corrupt your app.

Also, don't paste objects into Table Arrangements, same problem as above.

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