Sharing Stacks

-hh hh at hh.on-rev.com
Sat Jul 16 17:36:29 EDT 2016


Alex,

after writing that you are already perfectly in the state to edit
the revonline stacks and make a pull request?
The next step could be to remove the database errors of
the 71 "missing" stacks. Perhaps this can be made clear
during or after the LC conference (Richard will manage that).

In late August I have some time to assist you (if needed).
Hermann

Alex Tweedly wrote
> It's certainly much improved - but still feels under-developed, or 
> under-resourced. Certainly under-tested.
> 
> Five minutes playing shows up a variety of imperfections, ranging from 
> trivial to fairly serious.
> 
> All with 8.1.0 DP2, Macbook Pro, OSX 10.10.5
> 
> 1. trivial
> 
> 1a. Initial display shows :   Sort by:  A to
> 
> That should of course be "A to Z" but the button isn't wide enough.
> 
> 1b. Title (or headline) of the stack is "Livecode 7"
> 
> 
> 2. Minor.
> 
> 2a. In list mode, the display shows a scrolling list of 10 items, plus 
> on the right one larger one. This is often not upated when the 
> selection/search changes - so it is displaying a stack which is nothing 
> to do with the current selection or visible list.
> 
> 2b. List of tags (I think that's what they are). They are completely 
> random - no organization, not sorted (even alphabetic would be some 
> help). And they appear to be any random tag someone entered; it's 
> helpful to look fr a tag like "library" or "utility"  - but how much use 
> is it to tag something as "Awesome" or "0m3ga" ?
> 
> 3. More serious.
> 
> 3a. When there is no internet connection, this is very poorly indicated. 
> It's easy to miss the small text on the bottom line, so a search will 
> display (sometimes) some subset of (I think) the already cached stacks - 
> leading to a user believing it has done a search, and that there is no 
> matching stack - when in fact there is simply no internet connection, 
> and hence the search results are totally invalid. The indicator of no 
> connection should be MUCH more visible - and maybe even things like 
> search / filter should be disabled in that context.
> 
> 3b. Display when no connection, and no cached items.
> 
> When in list mode, with nothing cached - the right hand (i.e. major) 
> item shows a blank, incomplete template for a stack display. Looks 
> really wrong. And the "download" button should be disabled (or 
> preferably not visible). Clicking on it send the IDE out to lunch - 
> windows and toolbar are unresponsive - though fortunately the menu bar 
> is OK, so it's easy to Quit and restart.
> 
> 4. Worrying.
> 
> The "status" display says "431 stacks online" - but selecting "All / 
> All" says "showing 10 of 362 results".
> 
> Where are the other 71 ?
> 
> 
> I'll submit these as bugs when I have time - but I don't yet feel 
> inspired enough to spend any longer on revOnline just yet ...
> 
> -- Alex.
> 
> 
> On 16/07/2016 09:15, [-hh] wrote:
>> The revonline stacks *ARE* on github.
>>
>> Last change revonlinelibrary.rev: a year ago
>> Last change revonline.rev: 3 months ago
>>
>> I wonder why Richard speaks of work-"load"
>> of the core team by revOnline?
>>
>> Who did it last did it *very* good, runs stable.
>> The database handling is a well working script.
>> The display works well after updating preferences
>> (don't use the old one from before the "rebirth"
>> 3 months ago).
>>
>> Not sent from anybody's iPhone
>>
>>
>> Lagi Pittas wrote
>>> How about they put the source on GitHub and then we can make it what we
>>> want ... And the core team can get on with the real work
>>> How about it Richard?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>>
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