Blocs for Mac V5.2.7 - Beta Build 5

Hi @PeteSharp ,

Is this happening in 5.2.7 beta or release? How about 5.2.6 ?

I went from 5.2.4 (I think it was) to 5.2.7 the other day. I couldn’t tel you about 5.2.6 sorry. I updated to take take advantage of some later fixes :smile:

I was just curious to see when the issue started. If you have a chance try 5.2.6 to see if you can reproduce it.

Which issue? :joy:

This one?

CleanShot 2024-11-09 at 16.55.21@2x

It seems to happen if you use the Bootstrap SVG icons, from what I can gather. I’m not sure. :thinking:

So I open a project today, and it’s showing only 1 of the 2 Bloc’s in the layer tree? It was fine when it was last used over the weekend.

A couple of restarts of Blocs later and the Bloc re-appeared in the layer tree :man_shrugging:

A small request that should be easy to add. A simple copy option in the various code areas like page settings, code widget and code editor etc. That should just allow us to copy the contents with a single button press.

Also, there is an interface clash trying to drag down the scrollbar on the right side when it is near the option to open the popup code editor. Attempting to grab the scrollbar and pull it down simply doesn’t work, and merely highlights the popup, even though there is no direct interaction. To get around this, I have to use the scroll wheel on the mouse. I’ve not tried this with the Wacom pen, but I imagine it could be tricky there as well.

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Asset Manager → If you rename a .webp image, the name will not show as changed in the asset manager. If you right click to change the name again it shows the name had been changed. Just doesn’t show the updated naming in the panel.

After a restart of Blocs it resolves the name in the Asset Panel.

Another Asset Manager issue, although this thread seems to be abandoned. :sweat_smile: :man_shrugging:

If you have a group selected in the Asset Manager, which you then close, and then later on add a Bloc that contains images, all the images in that Bloc will be added to that last used asset group. Which is not what you expect and a pain if a lot of images are involved and are added to a group you don’t want them in.

Two Blocs with the same ID.

One is just a Blocs menu bloc and the other is a basic structure bloc. There is very little in this project. I haven’t change any IDs yet. Blocs named these. The first one is sitting in the Global top.

CleanShot 2024-11-14 at 20.24.35@2x

I’ve seen that sort of thing before as well @PeteSharp and obviously it shouldn’t be happening in version 5 after 10 years of Blocs development.

I have a curious one here. I’m using the blockquote bric, which seems to be applying a class to the div automatically, however that class is not accessible via the classes window or the class manager. In a somewhat recurring theme, it’s purple and I cannot see how to change that.

Like the others points raised, this is present with the release version of 5.2.7. On a side note it’s unfortunate that there appear to be so few of us actively testing and offering feedback.

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.blockquote is a bootstrap class. You can add it to the class manager and change the border colour to change the purple. Looks like there is some minor style Blocs adds to that class also.

And yes, I agree, seeing these classes would be a big benefit. It would save on creating so many custom classes. A lot of people don’t know they are there.

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Since the class was clearly not present in the class manager it begs the question how it independently decided to turn purple.

I tried creating a class called .blockquote previously and changed the colour, but it is not making any difference to that quote colour. I deleted the class and tried again, but still nothing. At least the class shows now, even if it seems to do nothing. I even set it to important in the class editor.

That’s like stating MacOS has been out since 2001 and it still has bugs. Of course it does, that’s what software development is all about, especially for the web. The machine is constantly evolving and moving forward, creating new bugs with every release. Many factors create bugs, hardware and software, but sure, come back in 10 years and you will find new bugs, you always will, because the machine just keeps moving forward.

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Are you saying code that prevents duplicate ids happening is somehow broken by the OS?

I’m saying anything can happen when new features and improvements are made to any app including the underlying OS that it runs on. Not to mention the Webkit Browser engine which Blocs uses for the canvas. So there are many moving parts.

Regarding duplicate ID’s
If you give a section an ID and then move it into the global area (which shows on every page), if a section on another page has this ID, then you will end up with a page with two ID’s the same. Blocs doesn’t manage this, but it will try and prevent it, if the currently selected page has an ID.

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That scenario isn’t what happened in may case, you can see I’m on the home page. Neither of those blocs were added on a different page :man_shrugging: hence I took a screen shot as that’s usually prevented.

Related to this issue when using body classes on the canvas…

It seems backgrounds do not show at all when using the body class as a selector to customise a page.

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Can you share an example of how you have the body is class set up?

Are you creating the body class in the Class Editor and then applying it to the body using the project settings option?

This is the supported way.