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Outliner with drag/drop reordering - part 2
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@ihf After some hours to try and test some Shortcuts actions, I've found that even if the "search events" action does not work anymore (with last version of IOS and Apple Watch OS), it seems that "get a number of events from a particular calendar" works correctly....
Then, I advice you to save the current Outlines shortcut under another name (I called it "Outlines old") before installation of a new shortcut. I also advice you to check their content to understand how they are different. Also, the "get events" action needs to know the maximum number of events (here 100, up to you to change the value) to get n events at a specified date (here 01/01/2022) in a specified calendar (here "outline").
And, please, test it and give some feedback, thanks.New Outline shortcuts is here https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/302a6602e9474cb7b34860a8acfd6dcc
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@cvp It works well. 👏
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@ihf Perhaps you also follow Pyto Discord and you have seen that I've been able (by scrupulously reading the documentation 😇) to do an Apple Watch complication working.
Thus, if you imagine a complication on your watch warning you of some info about your outlines, let me know but don't forget that Pyto code of complications would be very limited in ram and in functionalities. -
@cvp The first outline watch complication that come to mind would be related to any due dates that may be set in an outline. However I’m not certain as to how useful that really is. I will give it some more thought.
Unrelated to Pyto complications, I noticed this morning some thing that either I missed before or is new to iOS 15.3. The pop-up menu bar is cut off in outlines in landscape mode and possibly in portrait mode as well. Here are a couple of screenshots that might help illustrate this.
https://i.imgur.com/ieatwxT.png
https://i.imgur.com/UE6OMtg.png
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@ihf said
The pop-up menu bar is cut off
It is scrollable 😉
- vertically for a vertical menu
- horizontally for an horizontal menu
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@ihf said:
The pop-up menu bar is cut off
Question 1: Is the scrolling not ok?
Question 2: Do you know you can also put a shortcut as a complication
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Answer 1: Oops, my apologies. The scrolling is perfect.
Answer 2: yes, I have a watch-face that has a complication that calls a shortcut. Although, I probably use Siri more often to start Shortcuts since I use quite a few. -
@ihf said
Answer 1: Oops, my apologies. The scrolling is perfect.
it's me who apologizes, I'm always in a hurry to have an answer to a question 🙄
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@ihf Not sure it could be useful, but it could be possible to show on your Apple Watch an outline file from your web server, this is a snapshot from my watch (it's the "display web page" action, thus you can zoom by tapping two times)
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@cvp As you know, I can do that now with the outlines that get stored in the calendar. I’m not sure if viewing as the webpage has advantages.
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@ihf sorting on dates
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@cvp just checking in. Are you still in rewrite mode or have you “ moved on”?
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@ihf I am sincerely sorry to let you down like this. I finished the modification of "ScrollView instead of TableView" mode but the first tests are catastrophic and I haven't (yet?) found the courage to debug. Why your question? Do you have new requests or are you having too many problems with the current version? Or have you decided not to use it anymore?
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@cvp To answer your last question first, I definitely still use it regularly. It does crash Pythonista occasionally so that is mostly what reminded me to ask you about a revised version. I have not thought about any further enhancements as I did not want to complicate your rewrite.
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@ihf I hate myself for having become so lazy and for not finding the energy or the motivation to debug my modified version
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Dare I ask, any progress on the rewrite? I only as because I was just entering something into a new outline and it crashed, probably for the same reasons as before and it reminded me how much I seem to depend on it. Perhaps Pythonista was the best choice for prototyping on ios but not the best production environment for a script this complex?
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@ihf said
any progress on the rewrite
Not at all, shame on me. I've to say that I don't spend anymore a lot of time in Pythonista. Only sometimes, some short answers in the forum, but no more a big script, even for myself.
But, anyway, it would be a rewrite always in Pythonista. Or do you mean a conversion in Pyto, which has also a lot of crashes, and no real support from the developer, no answer to questions.Pythonista was the best choice for prototyping on ios
Not only prototyping, also for such a script, but without any correction for years. That's why Pyto could be better because the developer is 18 years old and we can hope she would update her app during years, excepted if she is very busy in her studies or later job.
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@cvp I am happy to use Pyto if you think it would be better but in the meantime I will continue to use Outline as it is. I don't know if I am the only one using it but I certainly appreciate all of your hard work on it.
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@ihf let's make a deal. In April, I'm very busy, including vacations in Italy, but I promise to spend my free time in May trying to fix bugs in the ScrollView version of Outline. If after that, it doesn't get better, I will abandon this direction. And I'll be sincerely sorry to let you down, but at some point I have to decide on an ending. Converting to Pyto seems doable to me but a work of several months.
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@cvp In my limited experience using Pyto, it is buggier than Pythonista. However, given that the Pyto creator is maintaining it and it is OSS, there is some hope that it will become more reliable. I agree with your plan and that this was not meant to be a lifelong project :-)
I wish you a very enjoyable vacation!
