New feature request: copy components of the UI

[bianca fenice]

What about to add a new feature that allows App Inventors to copy components from the user interface into the same screen or from a screen to another or from an application project to another as well as it is possible to do with blocks transferring them into the backpack icon?

And what about to copy / rename entire screen included UI and blocks inside the same project or from a project to another?

Thanks in advance.

[Ghica]

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/resources/ai2-project-merger.html
And there are ways (for advanced users) to edit the .aia directly.
Cheers, Ghica.

[bianca fenice]

Thanks for your response.

Anyway my feature request was addressed to copy components directly into the web AI UI, without having to download the aia file and modifying it by hands or by external product than reupload it

Also ai2projectmerger doesn't run without jvm and it does just one thing (merging screens) that is doable with 7zip-winrar. Until now I used to edit the aia file directly with 7zip-winrar and the file it contains with notepad++, not easy but doable.

So the software you suggested doesn't comply my feature request.

Thanks anyway.

[Ghica]

As I said before: be happy with and be amazed at what App Inventor offers.
Be patient and find workarounds for what App Inventor does not offer.
Cheers, Ghica

[bianca fenice]

Well I am a patient I am just advancing new ideas to develop theoretically all together and to implement into AI by who has enough skills of programming

I would help developing it but my problem is do I have enough programming skills? I'm not sure about.