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[p.colbert]

Broken link in documentation

I hope it’s not already been reported (I haven’t found it in the forum yet - otherwise sorry): In the “Structuring your app” page there is a broken link to How to Import Things due to the doubled part “/app-architecture/” in the browser link. The correct link is: How to Import Things Best regards Tom

Init_components and multiple inheritance

So, self.init_components() is actually an alias for FormTemplate.__init__(self)! So you can do: class Form(Interface, FormTemplate): def __init__(self, **properties): Interface.__init__(self) # Set Form properties and Data Bindings. self.init_components(**properties)

API Doc for New M3 Missing?

Seems to be a problem with the API link for M3. This page has a link to https://anvil.works/docs/api/material_3#NavigationRailLayout This comes back as not found.

What are the legacy settings

We would recommend having them on if you’ve migrated an app. Especially if you’re using an existing theme. In a newly created M3 (beta) app these will be all off. Include Bootstrap 3 Up until now, Bootstrap 3 has shipped with Anvil by default. Overtime the industry has moved away from bootstrap. For new themes, like M3, having Bootstrap can be a hinderance to theming. Unchecking this will mean that your app does not send Bootstrap to the browser. But in existing apps, this may affect the…

How do I rotate an image?

I ran into this as well. The man page Anvil Docs | Image Manipulation has the same issue. icon = URLMedia('https://cdn.vectorstock.com/i/1000v/55/34/om-sign-vector-22855534.jpg') w,h = anvil.image.get_dimensions(icon) print(w,h) small_icon = anvil.image.generate_thumbnail(icon, 16) Yields: RuntimeError: Cannot rotate image from untrusted cross-origin source.

@dave2

the links for Properties and Events under Interactive Cards give a not found error.