Outliner with drag/drop reordering - part 2

cvp

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.

ihf

@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.

cvp

@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.

ihf

@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!

ihf

@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?

cvp

@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

ihf

@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.

cvp

@ihf I understand the request, I already think about it, but so long time I did not touch this script 😢

cvp

@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

ihf

@cvp The thing I really miss is undo/redo but I know you said that was a major issue.

cvp

@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...

cvp

@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

ihf

@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.

cvp

@ihf said

it no longer displays properly

What does that mean ? Example? Perhaps I need to shorten the line if too long

ihf

@cvp I created a new outline and when I touch 1.0 to get the menu I got this:

https://i.imgur.com/JXu9PbE

cvp

@ihf Could you try to copy a text of some short lines, I think the problem comes from very long lines

ihf

@cvp It worked and displayed the Paste option with a few words and ...although it added 4 extra blank outline elements after the text.

cvp

@ihf said

although it added 4 extra blank outline elements after the text.

Don't understand. Do you mean that you did not copy some lines that are pasted?

I'll shorten to max 20 characters the first copied line in the menu but I'll paste all full copied lines

ihf

@cvp It worked fine when I copied several shorter lines (the extra lines were actually in the copied text so that is not a bug). I guess the problem is that when the lines are long it ruins the menu display.

cvp

@ihf see remark in edited previous post