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Outliner with drag/drop reordering - part 2
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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!
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@cvp There may already be a way to do this that I have forgotten but I wanted to take some text and paste it into Outline such that each line (delimited by EOL) would be a new outline element. In other words, if I paste in 5 lines of text to a new outline, I would get elements 1.0 thru 5.0. Related question, is there a way to take one element and break it into multiple elements?
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@ihf no, sorry, that does not exist. I'll think about it
Related question, is there a way to take one element and break it into multiple elements?
No but that could be a good new functionality
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@cvp I sometimes take notes in another app and I want them to be an Outline so an easy way to import them would be very useful.
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@ihf I understand the request, I already think about it, but so long time I did not touch this script 😢
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@ihf You know that there is a way to copy selected lines of an outline and paste them via the popup menu.
I'll try to reuse this code but I need to differentiate both cases. Not a little work
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@cvp The thing I really miss is undo/redo but I know you said that was a major issue.
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@ihf yes, I can understand but I think that you can forget it,
unfortunately because it had never correctly worked with TableView where I have to delete/insert rows, but in the future, if ScrollView work with my own array of rows, who can say... -
@ihf new V01.33 and outline.versions with
Version V01.33 - add new "paste_text" option in popup menu to add multiple rows after the selected one by copying several lines from another note/text
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@cvp I tried copying some text from another notes app and went to Outline. It pasted the text perfectly. However, if I click on the outline level to get the menu (on iPhone) it no longer displays properly.
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@ihf said
it no longer displays properly
What does that mean ? Example? Perhaps I need to shorten the line if too long
