Drag and Drop UI vs Legacy

Thunkable Discuss
#1

Hi All,

I almost gave up on thunkable before I began - I could not figure out why some of the tutorial videos showed the UI that I had on screen and others showed advanced options that I couldn’t find.

Then I remembered the check box on the create project screen (“New! Be the first to try our new drag and drop interface Try it out”).

So… after 10 minutes of cursing and strop throwing I’m back to ask a question.

Is there any document that gives me an idea of the differences between the two UI’s?

I may have missed it in my eagerness to dive in but I would have thought such a major change should warrent some big warning messages to new users so they don’t lose their minds like I was!!

It’s natural that a new user to something would choose the “new” option - so it would be good to explain to them what choosing it might entail. Just a basic description of the two UI’s perhaps a list of differing functionality and if the legacy UI is to be phased out the timescale expected in that.

It didn’t help that the tutorial videos available after choosing to use the “drag and drop UI” use a mix of the two UI’s.

Thanks for your help.

2 Likes
#2

Did you ever find any documentation on the differences between old and new UI as I am suffering the same frustrations?

I have been using a thunkable for a very short time and wanted to stick to the new UI as it is easier to develop applications quicker… or so i thought

I have started two new projects using the new UI I have hit a roadblock caused by a lack of feature parity between the two UI’s. This gets compounded by the fact that you cannot switch your app to the old UI means its a dead end… atleast until the feature becomes available

I did find an issues list here Issues · thunkable/thunkable-issues · GitHub but that doesn’t help when trying to plan an app.

Like yourself, I would like a list of all the things that are in the documentation of the old UI that are not in the available drag and drop UI… Things like multiline text input, Navigators, make copy function etc also a planned release date against those features would be awesome.

I realise that this is a beta function so I have decided to give up on the beta drag and drop UI because it lacks some basics and is too confusing to a new Thunkable user… Very sad as the old is Clunky at best.

I would like to know when it is going to be usable but there is no timeline for feature parity so that could be years away.

Does anybody in the community have any information that gives clearer guidance on the Drag and Drop UI’s capability rather than waiding through bug lists?

Thanks

#3

The navigators are available

Screenshot_20210402_072909
Screenshot_20210402_072909758×342 33.7 KB

2 Likes
#4

Thanks muneer your a star

1 Like
#5

You are welcome. When you say “make copy function”, do you mean this?

Screenshot_20210402_143535
Screenshot_20210402_1435351080×696 79.7 KB

#6

actually, your first answer showed me what I was missing. I have been using the option below to add screens
image

I had not seen the extra options here
image

so I was actually missing options, including the add from saved screens function which was causing my issues.

Thanks for pointing out these features it really helped.

Thanks

1 Like