I find the feature of saving a screen to “My Screens” super useful, often I want to try out a different strategy for some problem, and starting from something known is better than starting from scratch.
However, I often find myself in trouble as all app variables and imported features get doubled when I use the screen again.
It is driving me crazy as it dublicates all my invisible components, which in turn, when I delete the dublicates, invalidates all my screens, and I have to go searching for the errors everywhere.
This sparked a great idea, in my own humble opinion…, what if you could click the error icon with the number and auto scroll to next error? going through a long block sequence trying to see the warning sign is painful, and if you have to do it often…
Hi all.
Yes, variables are not deleted when you delete an specific function but at least you can delete them manually.
By the way, when re-using screens and blocks with “My Screens” can put in your project a couple of variables with same name but behind the variable name there is a unique id, so you just need to change the name to the first duplicated variable and you’ll see in blocks which one changes.
I just ran into the same thing . I was so confused when suddenly I had lots of duplicates of my invisible components, but then I figured it was from copied screens and saw your post confirming it.
I actually don’t know if duplicates will have an impact and if so which one, i.e. on app performance. I did clean things up manually though by deleting duplicates and then finding and correcting errors in the blocks. This was slightly tedious, but from now on I can do this first thing every time I add a screen from the saved screens.
I have been having the same problem.
One of the workarounds I have used is just rename the invisible components when I add them for the first time. For example, if I add an Alert, the default name is usually Alert_1. I will change it to say, “Screen3Alert”. Now when I duplicate the screen, the duplicate alert is added as Alert_1 and I immediately know which ones to delete.