My kid is trying to build a multi-screen app with information conveyed across pages. Let’s say we want three screens: on the first screen you enter a number (call it N1), second screen you enter N2, and third screen you print the N1+N2. (Please don’t nitpick the example. Of course we can put them all on one screen. The underlying information-flow issue is what matters.)
Navigating between screens is of course easy. The problem is with persisting information. We tried variables, but they appear to be local to screens. Searches suggest that AppEngine has a notion of a global variable, but that doesn’t seem to be in Thunkable X.
She isn’t ready to create an account on a system like Firebase, nor does it appear necessary, given that there’s the Local Storage option, which sounds just right:
https://docs.thunkable.com/thunkable-cross-platform/create/components/data/local-storage
My problem is simply that we can’t find any Local Storage blocks anywhere. I’m pretty certain she and I have both searched through all the drawers and haven’t found it. We’ve even clicked on individual page elements to see if they’re hiding in there, and they’re not. [Not that a Firebase or other account would help, since there are no blocks for those either.]
I presume we have to do something to “enable” Local Storage. What/where/how? The documentation page above is (frustratingly) silent on where these blocks actually reside or what one needs to do to make them manifest.