Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

[Roger Guay]

This sounds absolutely wonderful, Alex, except I can’t find it as you described. 

Roger

> On Sep 30, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> On 30/09/2021 15:02, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
>> On 06/09/2021 15:14, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote:
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>>> Upgrading this could be a very useful project. There is a lot of content in there but it has the issues you list.
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> So I had a look at what could be done just within the IDE for revonline. There's an old joke about a tourist in Ireland who realizes she(*) is lost, and ask for directions from an old farmer at the side of the road. "Well", says he, "if I wanted to go there, I wouldn't start from here."
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> I found the revonline scripts rather complex, and I couldn't easily see how to solve the issues mentioned previously, in that context. And the bottom line is that it's not a complex problem that needs to be solved. The login / register / upload features all work just fine - the problems are with the searching / browsing / filtering, and are generally related to either (very) poor performance or unclear UI.
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> In the end, I just couldn't produce worthwhile improvements, so instead I wrote a plugin that handles the searching / filtering / browsing / downloading parts, and which omits the login/upload parts entirely.
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> It can be downloaded from "Sample Stacks" in the IDE toolbar (it's called "Sample Stacks" and is tagged as IDE and Plugin). Install as a plugin in the usual way.
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> UI is very similar to the existing IDE version - simplified a bit.
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>  - search box automatically (and immediately) updates as you type, so the "Go" button was removed
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> - everything happens in < 1 second, so the progress bar was removed.
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>  - the grid/list choice was removed (the old 'list' stye was hard to use or understand)
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>  -  tags in the left-hand box are alphabetized
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>  - the grid is a single long scrolling group, rather than being paged and scrolled
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> There is one issue I haven;t tracked down yet - sometimes the scrolling using mousepad doesn't work initially; scrolling with the scrollbar seems to be enough to "revive" it.
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> Let me know if you try it and have any problems or suggestions.
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> Thanks
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> Alex.
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> (*) "she" is not sexist - had it been a man he would never have admitted to being lost and so would never have asked the question :-)
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