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
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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