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Hello everyone
I wanna back up my App Inventor blocks, and want them be useful and found easily. Could you give me a trick or a way to do that please?
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Jun 19, 2019, 1:15:07 PM6/19/19
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Do you mean you want to recycle them for other projects? You can save the Project File (.aia) to your computer. Give It an appropriate name. When you need the Blocks for another Project, you can do one of two things:
Load the Project from your computer and save it with the name for your new Project
Or (if the new Project already exists) load the Project from your computer, copy the Blocks to the Backpack, go to your new Project, paste from the Backpack
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You have also the possibility to save an image (png) of the handy blocks as you call them and you can drag and drop them in the block designer when you need them. In the png the block code is incorporated.
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Hi Peter
I recall Evan mentioning that new method but it is not incorporated in nb177 is it? Just tried, nothing happens.
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Yes it is incorporated.
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I am finding github helpful for storing those .PNG files
and distributing them without losing their embedded blocks.
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Okey thank you.
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@ Peter - aha! I thought it would work via the workspace right-mouse menu, given that also produces a .png. (head slap)
So, it is a very useful method, would be great to do something similar in the Designer.
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How would that work in your view. Save a button with all it settings to an outside file? If it would have to work from inside the designer you should be able to safe for instance the button with all its properties and all the associated blocks in one go. That would be something special.