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Introducing BlockySite 2.0

It has been quite a long time since our latest minor release (longer than we’d have wanted), but here we are today, presenting 🎁 to all of you a brand new version of BlockySite creator 😍.

This major update is a culmination of all the hard work that has been put in behind the scenes during the past few months.

We want all our users to have a great time developing, and bringing your ideas into reality with our completely FREE and POWERFUL Creator πŸ˜„. Give your thoughts, suggestions, and bugs about the biggest BlockySite Creator update on this topic πŸ˜‰

We know you’re eager to read the full release notes,

so as a final comment, This release has been named as πŸ‘‡

Blue Berry Muffin πŸ«β€‹

Release notes​

Major changes​

New services​

  • Introducing BlockySite IDE. An integrated development environment to develop BlockySite Extensions.

New features​

  • Auto-save
    • Auto saves every time you make a change to your project.
  • A hierarchal structure of the components is added adjacent to the component palate and named "Designer tree".
    • Click on the "tree" icon near the components palate icon to see the "Designer tree".
  • Rename your project name by clicking on the name of your project.
  • Custom hosting provider
    • You can now host your project on your server.

UI changes​

  • Non-visible components bottom menu is removed and moved all the components to the "Designer tree".

  • "project saved successfully" popup is removed.

  • Saving/deploying project progress can be seen on the icon itself (no disturbance).

  • A new category has been added to the component palate to show all the imported extensions.

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New Components​

Media​

  • Audio

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  • File picker

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  • Video

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Sensors​

  • Location sensor

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Utilities​

  • Battery Utility

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  • Clock

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  • Device Utility

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  • Url tools

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Connectivity​

  • Network

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New Event Blocks​

Screen​

  • Page Onload

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New Method Blocks​

Dictionaries​

  • string to dictionary

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New properties​

UserInterface​

Button​
  • Disabled: used to disable the button.

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Hidden​

  • Used to hide the component from the viewport.

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Moved Components​

  • HyperLink ➑️ UserInterface
  • Linear Progress ➑️ UserInterface

Deprecated Blocks​

Control​

Home​

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Bugs fixed​

  • unable to drag and drop blocks from backpack to the canvas (#502)
  • Performance improvements
  • Security improvements