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Outliner with drag/drop reordering
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@cvp I think what you have created Is nothing short of amazing especially given the amount of time that you’ve been working on it. I am spending a fair amount of time testing move and drop to make sure it works the way I expect. Take a look at this outline which was originally in alphabetical order. I am trying to move 3.3.3 g. back to 3.3.1 but each time I do it I end up with it at 3.4 g. Is there a way to move g back at the same level without doing it in multiple steps?
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@cvp I figured it out. All you have to do is move it further to the right when you do the move and it will stay at the current level. Brilliant!
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@cvp it might be useful for outline to take a parameter as the name of an outline file to open. That way I think a Shortcut could open an outline directly (probably also from Stash). Also, if outline files use a suffix then perhaps the script could show available outline files to open?
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@ihf said:
parameter as the name of an outline file to open
In which directory? This one of the script? 2nd parameter?
I'm not free at all today because I go on with my trip but after your answer, I' ll add this feature in my first free time.
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@cvp defaulting to the same directory as the script is probably fine but personally I will probably keep the outline files in a separate folder so having the ability to specify a folder would be helpful.
I wish you a fun and restful vacation. Outline is already a very useful program and every day you are making it even better. Kudos to you! -
@cvp I was trying to move outline files to a new dir but I seem to have broken the open function (even after moving files back and deleting the .prm file.) Is there another file that needs to be removed?
This is what it looks like if I try to use open:
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@cvp dont know what changed but I am able to get past the open and select a file but if I select the .content file from before I get this:
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@ihf I just read your two posts but I've feasted too much my holidays with my sons, their wife and children, to be able to understand them ( the posts).
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@ihf said:
I select the .content file
Normally, we don't select the .content but the text file. I could protect against that
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@ihf said:
Is there another file that needs to be removed?
A file is a couple of two files:
- the text file named xxx.yyy where .yyy is not mandatory but could be .txt as standard
- the outlines file named xxx.content.
When you create a new file named xxx.yyy, the xxx.content will be created by the script
When you open, select the text file, never the .content file
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@cvp Understood.
I may be mistaken but after typing 10 or so lines in landscape mode in an outline, the next line is obscured by the onscreen keyboard and there does not appear to be a way to scroll the outline to add new lines (and see what is being typed). -
@ihf said:
the next line is obscured by the onscreen keyboard and there does not appear to be a way to scroll the outline to add new lines
I thought that this problem had been solved. 😢
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@cvp This is not an Outline problem per se, but I would like to share my outlines between ios devices. I thought that I merely had to move the outline file and the .content to icloud but what happens is that the files show up under iCloud but only on the device that moved them. In other words, if I move the outline to iCloud on my iPad, the files do not appear in Pythonista on my iPad. Do you know where I have gone wrong? Interestingly, all files moved to iCloud from my ios devices show up on my Mac.
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@ihf said:
the files do not appear in Pythonista on my iPad
Old Pythonista bug with iCloud files.
On the device where they don't appear, go first in the Files app, iCloud Drive, Pythonista and download the files. After that, you should be able to access the files in Pythonista iCloud.
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@ihf New V00.40 available with
Version V00.40 - support of file passed as 1st argument nb: - only file in script folder is actually supported - script checks file and its.content both exit - ex url: pythonista3://MyFolder/outline?action=run&argv=a.txt
See above which url to open via a shortcut to open a.txt and a.content at start of script.
Assumed that the script and the two files are in the same folder, here named MyFolder in Pythonista Documents.