Don't Forget About "Organize All Blocks"

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Don't Forget About "Organize All Blocks"

The App Inventor Block Editor has some little known features. Three of these features are hidden in a pop-up menu that only shows up when you right-click on the empty space. This rarely used pop-up menu contains three features:

Organize all blocks
Collapse all blocks
Expand all blocks

Theoretically, you can do all the development you want in the Block Editor without ever having to use any of these three features.

But, today, while updating an app I written a month ago, I found that at least one of these three features is an absolute necessity to app development. And that is the "Organize all blocks" feature.

After loading up the app I wanted to update in Block Editor, I found that some of the blocks are outside the work area. You can seem them in the work area thumbnail map on the top right-hand corner, but you can't get to them.

For a while, I thought they were the casualty of developing in the beta release of App Inventor. Fortunately, they are developed blocks and I didn't need access to them right away. However, I stumbled upon the right-button click on empty space in the work area and was presented with this pop-up menu. Selecting "Organize all blocks" caused all the blocks to be formatted nicely within the work area.

You can click "Organize all blocks" multiple times. Each time, it will re-organize your work area. It almost seems that Block Editor has a random algorithm that re-arranges your work space. Using this method repeatedly, you can have Block Editor re-organize your blocks until you are happy with it order.

Chieh Cheng
Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:48:37 +0000

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