Issue with Users Service and Layouts when using IDE

[p.colbert]

I wonder if

@andrewbillcliffe

anvil.users.login_with_form()

is interfering with the IDE’s Designer. If it’s trying to run Layout code at Design time, as happens with many Custom Components, then you can prevent that. See “as-yet-undocumented but useful feature” in:

Question about Custom Components in Beta Designer

Ah, that would do it! There’s a limited set of modules available inside the designer, but we’ll add anvil.tz to it However, here’s an as-yet-undocumented but useful feature: You can write: from anvil.designer import in_designer and now you have a boolean variable called in_designer, which you can use! So for example, you could replace your import anvil.tz with: from anvil.designer import in_designer if not in_designer: import anvil.tz Then you won’t get the ImportError in the d…