Sneaky Anvil Updates

[mark.breuss]

Just realized that right clicking the tabs in the Beta IDE allows you to close them all!

[divyeshlakhotia]

Now my Anvil Editor has as many open tabs as my Browser (One of them being Stackoverflow of course).

[rickhurlbatt]

Copying and pasting components now maintains the layout if the components are within a container. Copying forms from one app to another is now Super Simple! Thank you.

Edit I Think this has been like this for some time…

[stefano.menci]

@rickhurlbatt

I Think this has been like this for some time

It wasn’t like that two months ago, when I tediously redefined the layout of a ton of forms and decided to make the DataGridJson custom component!

[stefano.menci]

The log shows when uplink functions are registered, yay!

It is not as good as a dashboard that shows the current status of the app, but it’s better than nothing.

[hugetim]

Not sure how long this has been there, but while working on resolving an unexpected “TimeoutError,” I just now learned of relaxed transactions for the first time.

[hugetim]

[BETA] Don't add unwanted imports

This seems to have been implemented, with an option in the Beta editor Accounts menu: [image]

[duncan_richards12]

Don’t know if it’s an Anvil thing or an Anvil Extras thing, but now you have the ability to discretely choose which version of Anvil Extras you want to use as a 3rd-party dependency – all the way from v0.11 to latest production!

[rickhurlbatt]

The tab icons in the IDE now have colour on them even when they are not selected! Much easier to see what is what. This was something I have been meaning to make a request on but not got around to so Thank you! Small things amuse small minds

[stefano.menci]

There was a request: [Beta] Keep the icon colors on the tabs

They do listen to us!!!

[divyeshlakhotia]

Now you can create a new Folder in your assets in as well! This will definitely help.

[divyeshlakhotia]

The App Logs have become much faster now! Thank you so much for that

[p.colbert]

anvil.server.disconnect() for Uplink programs. Thanks to @owen.campbell for mentioning it here:

[DONE] Disconnect uplink

You can call anvil.server.disconnect() And then connect with a different key.

It’s not in the main documentation, so folks are apt to miss it (I did!), but it is in the API documentation here:

anvil.server [uplink]

[rickhurlbatt]

I do not ever remember seeing this but there is a new Advanced section in the server docs and you can enforce a user logged in before running server functions.

Server Code

[divyeshlakhotia]

No idea when they did it but the default Anvil alerts also support multiple nested alerts stacked on top of each other

[rickhurlbatt]

WHAT!!
That is amazing

[meredydd]

It’s amazing how quickly some people notice these things. We literally deployed that yesterday, and the newsletter mentioning it is going out today!

[david.wylie]

You’re lucky I have a hangover. I was about to complain about the lack of an announcement

[p.colbert]

Python 3 dataclasses in the browser

# Client side from functools import ( update_wrapper, wraps, total_ordering, cmp_to_key, cache, # python 3.9 but available on the client lru_cache, reduce, partial, partialmethod, ) Currently missing: singledispatch cached_property (python 3.8) singledispatchmethod (python 3.8) (has been available since May 2021)

[anthonys]

I teared up on this one