How to turn Screen1 into another screen and vice versa in App Inventor 1 for dummies (also can be used for renaming screens)

If you are someone who actually needs to read this tutorial, skip the beginning. If you just like reading boring blog posts, knock yourself out and read whatever you want.

Wow. Just spent the last few minutes trying to figure how to sign in to blogger. You have to hover over the top to see the sign in bar. Lovely. Anyways, this post is going to be about app inventor. A how-to. Because I wasted two hours of my life trying to figure this out. Yes, my first blog post in a really long time is going to be about this. I have a whole list of interesting things to discuss and I chose a boring tutorial. Oh well. Oh and lots of these things came from the Google group about app inventor. It was kind of complicated, so that's why I'm making this tutorial

This tutorial is meant for mostly beginners at app inventor, but here are some things that this tutorial expects you to be able to do:

• save projects
• save projects as...
• open the blocks editor
• make a multi-screen app
• upload and download projects
• copy, cut, and paste
• find and save files on your desktop or whatever library
• extract files from zip folders
• rename files

And that should be about it. I know it was kind of useless to read this, but if you were already pro at app inventor, you wouldn't even need this tutorial. So if you can't do those things...sucks. Learn.

Pretty much the only reason you would use this tutorial is if you put your game screen as screen1 instead of the menu screen. Other reasons would be if you really don't like your screen name or if you want to...actually idk. I think you can also apply this tutorial if you want to copy screens but I'm not sure. 

Okay, step 1:

Make a copy of your project. This is so just in case things go terribly wrong, you still have the original.

Step 2:

Download the copy of the project and save it wherever you want on your computer. It will be saved as a zip file.

Step 3:

Extract all files from the zip file. 

Step 4:

Open the new extracted folder. Click the src folder and keep opening folders until you get to the one with the names of your screens. There will be a blk file and a scm file of each screen.

Step 5:

Open one of the blk or scm files. When I tried this, it said windows could not identify what program to open the file with. If this happens, choose "select a program" and then notepad. Notepad should come with windows computers. 

Step 6:

Ctrl+h to find and replace. Find the name of the old screen, and replace it with the desired screen name. For example, replace MenuScreen with Screen1 or replace Screen1 with GameScreen. Do this for both the blk and scm files.

Step 7:

Rename the blk and scm files to the new screen name. Do this for each screen.

Step 8:

Go back to the folder that showed three folders (assets, src, and youngandroidproject). Select all 3 of them. (Select the first one, hold shift, then select the last one). Right click on one of the three folders. Click "Send to" then "compressed (zipped) folder". Rename the new zipped folder to something new using only letters, numbers, and underscores.

Step 9:

Cut the new zipped folder, and paste it somewhere easy to find in your computer.

Step 10:

Upload the new zipped folder to app inventor.

Step 11:

Open the blocks editor to see if everything is good. Usually, the place where you open another screen will have the wrong screen name there. Fix it.

And that's it! Yay!

rhombic pizza slices

eyyy van here
i see eri has added a bunch of new tabs
er, i kind of hate sharing my favorite music
since they're not that popular
and i only want me to know that song
yeah, im selfish
so
yeah. ill see if i can find share-able music.:D
anyway
H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y ,  K R I ! ! ! !
I guess I have to tell a meaningful life story now.
Yesterday afternoon, I was working on a cultural project at another friend's house, who lives over a half an hour from my area. We procrastinated for the first few hours, playing around and ordering pizza. We tried to have our pizza cut into congruent rhombuses, but Pizza Hut had other ideas. Triangles. Friken' mainstream, them triangular pizzas.
Also, there was a 14-month old baby named Kevin whom I played with. Played as in threw him up in the air and then catching him, almost killing him but not killing him and everyone was like damn, van youre strong when im not and little Kevin was laughing like a maniac thinking that i wont drop him when i could if i pulled a lam. :D
Ran out of breath there with that run-on sentence.
Let's end this post with a quote.
"Your back feels good."
"Yours too."
-van is the man 4/12
o
i just searched for the adjectival form for rhombus
and apparently
there's this thing called rhomboid
that's like a rhombus but isn't a rhombus
woah
rhombuses

Names

A debut.

Hello, world! This is a brand new blogger--a good friend of Eri and van! I don't know what I'll post, but judging from the random stuff on this blog, there's lots of possibilities. Also, I don't know how frequent I'll post. My goal is to be pretty frequent. How long does it take to write blog posts anyways? It's weird writing as if someone else will be reading what you write. But anyways, on to the subject of the blog post name: Names! What cool blog name should I have? I think I'll use the standard so far of three letters.
Here are some possibilities:
Hyp--math makes me think of hypotenuses
Ers--emergency rooms
Pac--man
Ehi--hello to you my good friend, E
Ppo--heterozygous pea plant with purple flowers, oh
Eh, I really just wanted to see what hyperspacehippo looked like in three letter pieces. I don't think I'll use any of them.
And now for the grand reveal: this is my super awesome not really original pattern following blog name!

--Kri

bubbling with love

I know you guys missed me. I see tears studding your eyes and streaming down your face through the computer screen. Here's a complementary tissue.

3k+ page views. Damn. -whistles- Much room for improvement there.

Heh, it's Valentine's Day, eh? Our high school had this "amazing" school spirit event for this spectacular day. Spotlight Day! 
Dress in the three condiment colors for a hot dog! Red for taken, green for "single and ready to mingle", and yellow is for the in-between, whatever that is. Naturally, Eri and I flaunted our school spirit in an assortment of colors. Eri had a nice blue and yellow (Berkeley, man) sweatshirt along with a pair of jeans, while I dressed in -100% saturated attire (grey and black). We're totally supporters of Valentine's Day. No, we're not jealous. biches, pls/ #overloadofswag                                                                                        

I'd share with you all my playlists of love songs, but that'd be far too much work on poor, sweet me. 

Instead, I'll be benevolent and share one song. Check out ' Killer ' by The Ready Set. Extremely sweet song for the lovebirds;)
Mhm, 'Sweater Weather' is a nice choice too, yeah?

HAPPY CHINESE/ASIAN NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! I'm not a month late. Just a little off because of our speedy browser, Internet Explorer! :)
Anyway, time of that year again where you see red everywhere. Red lanterns, banners, good luck charms, clothing, envelopes, blood splatter -- whoops.
So there you are, in the bathroom during the middle of the night taking a shit undisturbed. In fact, you're dozing off due to your weariness when suddenly--BANG! BANG! BANG! your idiotic neighbors set off their firecrackers, roaring with laughter without a care about their surroundings. Really, anyone would fancy storming over and punching the lights out of them. They dare shake with mirth when their magnificent neighbor was shaken awake from their deafening sound?! Alas, if this were EVER to have happened to me, I would spare them for the sake of the New Year. We wouldn't need any more red, if ya catch my drift...


Thanks for your concern, Eri. Try not to get in my way when I sneeze.
My insincerest apologies, but I must decline your generous offer of making babies. Please don't involve me in such matters.
Kindest regards.

Since we're all celebrating and congratulating this new, profound "zigzag" who commented, I'll give him a small insignificant mention in this blog post. Greetings to Zigzag from the alternate admin for this blog: van!

i'm out.

-fresh van 2/14

From the Notebook --- The Fault in our Stars

What's up, guys?

Anyway, I'm in the holly jolly writing mood (or holiday mood?), so let's get a'cracking. I've read 27 books so far this school year, so I'll take some time to introduce a few of the covers I've perused and enjoyed so far.

I'm going to be very mainstream and introduce a book that I'm sure you all have heard of before: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars.

 (Credits to Amazon)

(Credits to Teen Lit Rocks)

This touching book recounts the struggles and life of 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl with thyroid cancer with metastasis growing in her lungs since she was 13. She is very bright, having already finished high school and is in the process of completing a college education. Forced to sign up for a cancer support group, Hazel meets a boy named Augustus Waters, also known as Gus, whose right leg is now a prostheses because of osteosarcoma, and is currently in remission. He is a former star basketball player, and is a very bright teenager as well. They begin to form a friendship over novels when Hazel and Augustus promise to trade favorite books ("An Imperial Affliction" for Hazel Grace and a video game novel for Gus). Through texting and phone calls, the two become very close friends, often having philosophical discussions late at night.

Hazel idolizes the reclusive and alcoholic author of "An Imperial Affliction", Peter van Houten, for the writing of the book, so Augustus writes a letter to van Houten in hopes that he would reply for Hazel. From the reply of van Houten's secretary, she also decides to write a letter to him. Because of these events, she learns that Augustus has not used his "Wish" from The Genies (a spin-off of the Make a Wish Foundation), and that he wants to use it to visit van Houten in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Although Hazel Grace begins to form romantic notions with Augustus, she doesn't want to have a relationship with him in fear of hurting him in potential death after learning of Augustus's previous girlfriend's loss to cancer. However, after admittance to the hospital for serious pneumonia, she realizes that she loves Augustus, and the two decide to confirm their trip to Holland.

As time goes on, Hazel Grace finds herself falling deeper and deeper in love with Augustus...  But she finds that time is running out as Augustus reveals his new diagnosis: his cancer has come back...

-Eri

11/15/13

Untitled Post. But It Lies Because It's Actually Titled 'Untitled Post'. I Don't Trust Myself Anymore. Cry in a 90 Degree Corner. Do You See My Point, Mate? Probably Not. I Don't See It Either.

YO WASSUP MATES!!
Really, that just sounds a hell lot better than "Greetings fellow viewers, blah blah blah craaap".
Well
Well
Wellllll
Let's introduce some great Youtube channels I like. (And trust me, I hate everything in life. If I like something..well, it's something worth watching ;P) Because Eri's doing that. And I don't want to work on my bio report. Let's begin.

Hm, I've recently found this epic channel named jacksfilms a week ago. (Why didn't I find him earlier. Why you do this to me.)
I introduced his channel to Eri because you know, we like this kind of shiz. Naturally with my awesome instinct and psychic powers, I knew Eri would fall "head over hills" for his channel.
YGS (Your Grammar Sucks). That is the shit. liek srs. CHECK HIS CHANNEL OUT YO!

Ermm
There's nigahiga of course, but I'm sure you all know him. I love that guy. Whenever I'm feeling especially down or depressed, I just watch one of his hilarious videos and my spirits are quickly lifted. Thank you, Ryan for making my day since 2010! ^_^

Oh, and WongFu Productions!
Epic people, like seriously. Check them out. They create really inspirational and funny videos. :D I haven't seen all their videos because I'm lazy and...I'm lazy...and yeah. ._. I found them around the same time I discovered nigahiga (back when I was a lil' kid:P), but I've always considered them as boring. xD It was only this year that I started to find interest in their videos.

danisnotonfire ...
I've only found this dude recently too. Not much to say about him yet, except that he posts videos that may relate to your life. They're funny too, so that's a plus. When I first saw one of his videos, my reaction was: "Woah. Damn person, high five."

And then there's sWooZie.
He's cool, man. His drawings are great and he tells interesting stories. Check his channel out. c:

...My paragraphs are getting shorter. I'm getting lazier. Sorry, guys. Lol.

Eri introduced CinemaSins to me.
Great critique on movies. GG (y)

There's this channel called HowToBasic...
I didn't particularly like this channel, but it was quite...intriguing.
Find out how to do things like
-deliver a baby
-be gay
-perform heart surgery
And so much more!
Er...honestly, I find him a bit off, and I rarely watch his videos, but yeah. If you're into that kind of stuff. Whatever floats your boat. Whatever suits your tie.

And subscribe to this new animator/typographer/whatever she's going to do:P


-vannie. 10/17
(posted on the 18th because why not)
(why was i sardonic. ? i don't know, man.)

From the Notebook --- I am the Messenger

Hey guys,

So I decided that I'm going to start a new series of articles called "From the Notebook", and I'm basically going to be talking about stuff I write about in my notebook. This is going to be mainly a collection of book reviews and book recommendations of stuff I've read recently.

First up from the notebook --- I am the Messenger.

I am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak (who wrote The Book Thief), details the adventures of an average 19-year-old man named Ed Kennedy, who is a very average person. He works as an underage cabby driver, therefore having access to a car for most of the day. One day, he receives a playing card in the mail --- the Ace of Diamonds --- on which three addresses are written. He visits these addresses to investigate and realizes that at these three locations, he must do something to help correct the damage and problems at each residence. For example, one residence holds an old lady whose husband had passed away years ago, so Kennedy stepped in and pretended to be her husband from time to time, allowing her to feel less lonely. Another residence had a man who raped her wife every night, so Kennedy received a gun in his mailbox, with which he shot the man. He finishes these tasks and thinks he's free, but little did he know that his adventure with the Aces was far from over...

---

Synopsis:

Protect the diamonds. Survive the clubs. Dig deep through the spades. Feel the
hearts

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.

That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

---

In my opinion, this book holds a very potent message. Some of the themes and concepts introduced in this book may not be very appropriate for anyone under the age of thirteen, but Zusak uses these themes only for the purpose of educating the reader about what the world is like. By the third Ace, the sequence may get a little bit repetitive, but being able to peek into every single person's life is actually pretty cool in itself. It gets a bit interesting when he arrives upon the last Ace, however... Because sometimes, you have to change who you are yourself before you can change others.

The way Zusak illustrates Kennedy is very plain; I know this sounds weird, but this is something I really appreciate. Zusak portrays Kennedy in a way that we can relate to; he's just like you or me. Most books have heroic figures that seem a little too nice and forgiving for my taste, but Kennedy? He's selfish when he wants to be, but he can be very caring at certain times. This realistic portrayal allows me to connect on many different levels with him. I honestly think it's pretty cool.

---

I hope you enjoyed this new series of articles! (: Hopefully, I'll be posting more and more often as time goes on ^^

-Eri 10/7/13

Fresh Meat--Straight From the Market

Yo, wassup mates?
Eri and I entered school a few weeks ago as freshmen.
Exciting, yes?
The buildings were a fricken two stories! Man, that's just HUGE.
GIGANTIC.
ENORMOUS.
(that's what she said.)
I wasn't late to any of my classes, due to my amazing navigation skills. Eri...well, I don't know, her sense of direction isn't as fine as mine.
Haha, what am I saying, I barely made it to my classes on time.
"Where the hell is B111? Wait, what's that dark corridor...? Ah, there's the room. Thanks to my sharp eye, I actually found this hidden closet room."

Honestly, I didn't see a point to dressing up nicely for the first day. So yeah, my hair was a mess like always, and my clothes may have been put on backwards.
What's the point of nice clothing?
All you're doing is reuniting with friends, greeting old classmates, and rushing to your class.
Trip over those high heels, noobs. I'll be in my worn out sneakers laughing at you.
I'm not sadistic, k.
Maybe a little.
Not that much, though. ;P

High school is g8, tho. It's not the same clique of popular idiots who run the whole school.
You just need your little group of friends, and life is cool. :D

Freshmen Fridays are cool, mates.

kbye.

-sardonic. 9/2/13

Star Light, Star Bright..

"
           Star light, star bright,
           first star I see tonight.
           I wish I may, I wish I might,
           have this wish I wish tonight.
                                                 "

Yeah, I apologize, but

When you wish upon star,
you're actually a little late. (just a few million years late)
That star is dead,
just like your dreams.

Blame it on the light years.

-van. 3/2