Select, Cut, Copy & Paste in both Component and Blocks Editors

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Being able to Select (including multiple select), Cut, Copy & Paste in both 
Component and Blocks Editors would make app-inventor so much nicer to work 
with. Dragging selected components to different position in the viewer would 
also be a great feature. This is especially true when there are large numbers 
of components as it's difficult to see them all in the viewer and often the 
structure in components doesn't reflect whats in the viewer.

Besides that this is a great application environment. I have been able to 
produce a quite complex application in a very short time given the learning 
curve. Mu kudos to the development team....keep up the good work!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yahjoh...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2011 at 5:36

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Especially since I have such a long list of components in the viewer- whenever 
I make a change, it jumps to the top of the list, or at least 2-3 "page up" 
scrolls, causing me to then have to rescroll back down to the section I'm 
working on, over and over.

Even enabling the  scrollable "components" section to lock or snap to the 
section being worked on would be helpful in minimizing time wasted on 
scrolling,  scrolling,  scrolling... 

Still very grateful to be able to be able to program at all in a GUI, so kudos 
on the work so far, but feedback is a good thing...

Original comment by exerep...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 12:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Original comment by weihuali...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2012 at 1:55

• Changed state: Noted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue 560 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mirre...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 4:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue 777 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mirre...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 4:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue 1859 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mirre...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 4:28

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I absolutely agree here. I chose to try to create an android keyboard for my 
first project. Having to manually drag 200 plus buttons, set color, text, size, 
etc for each one is turning into a headache that would make one abandon the app 
inventor.
Cut and Paste is such a simple function. It already exists in the block editor, 
so why is is so low on the development team's list of action items. Ditto for 
multi select (lasso) in these designers.
Please give some thought to upping the priority on functionality that everyone 
will use on a daily basis rather than putting priority on bells and whistles or 
esoteric functions that only a few can put to use. 
From the dates on this issue, it has been put on low priority for over a year.

Original comment by gjcah...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2013 at 5:04

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I agree. Honestly, other platforms are catching up and will soon out pace my 
beloved AI. Schools will use what is easies to make cool apps. I feel like I am 
standing on the sidewalk watching someone smash a perfectly good sports car. 
It's heart wrenching!  

Original comment by optimizationtutor.com on 7 Mar 2013 at 5:10

[GoogleCodeExporter]

OOps...My apologies for not adding that I think this environment is a wonderful 
new approach.  I used to love programming.  But the dotnet platform turned 
programming into a tedious chore where we spend days looking for one functin 
that does the job we want. Changes are we will never use that funciton again! 
Boo Hiss!!  We are now librarians rather than creative programmers. I look 
forward to seeing this environment mature into an IDE that we LOVE to work in!! 
   Keep up the great work. 

Original comment by gjcah...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2013 at 5:11

[GoogleCodeExporter]

not only able copy components and blocks to the same screen, but also to be 
able copy-paste cross different screens. that would be great.

Original comment by winet...@gmail.com on 13 May 2014 at 2:33

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi,
I have the same problem. I'd like be able to copy-paste cross different screens.

Original comment by JefAlmei...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2014 at 6:56

[GoogleCodeExporter]

My biggest desire in this area is to be able to copy/paste in the designer. I 
just manually edited 4 properties in 72 buttons, all the same. It took more 
than an hour. If I could have copied one button and pasted it 71 times, I would 
have been done in minutes. Please, this must be a top priority.

Original comment by heavin.p...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2014 at 1:41

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Expanding (or contracting :-) my previous comment - If I could just multiple 
select many buttons, then change properties for all selected buttons at once, 
then I think the process would have been even faster. If I could multiple 
select, choose Rename and then supply a name with a "#" in the text that would 
be a sequence number I could easily reproduce a whole evening's work in just a 
minute or two.

Original comment by heavin.p...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2014 at 11:50

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I just returned to writing android apps after several years hiatus. I think 3 
years has been long enough to not deal with this complaint. I liked AI from my 
brief experience a few years ago. If I am going to learn a tool to write apps 
from scratch any tool will do. The first thing I do when I get done this 
message is look for that other tool. The app I am working on would require me 
to change font to '24' 18 times, change alignment 18 times, change width to 
'50' 18 times, and change height to '50' 18 times. I still thank the MIT team 
for all their work.

Original comment by slashi...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2014 at 11:35

[GoogleCodeExporter]

[deleted comment]

[GoogleCodeExporter]

yes please get this available as much time is wasted not being able to do this. 
 Thank you

Original comment by auma...@gmail.com on 14 May 2015 at 11:54