Karelia Community Forum / Sandvox 2 API

"Save" status glich

dummy@example.com (seanc) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:17:04 +0000

Thanks Mike!

I just wasn't seeing all the interactions adequately. Moved it to an action and it works OK now.

Sean

"addCSSString" not having immediate effect

dummy@example.com (seanc) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:12:13 +0000

Thank you Mike!

Unique CSS IDs?

dummy@example.com (seanc) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:08:11 +0000

Mike, don't know how best to explain the situation, but I'm left with 3 choices:

provide a means to insure site-wide unique IDs, or ...
provide a means to auto-synchronize ALL plugin instances to a single set of properties, or ...
leave it up to the user to ensure synchronized properties

CFUUID would work for unique IDs, but produces very long, non-descript, numerical strings. Still investigating it.

Auto-synchronizing means that changes made to any single inspector would have to automatically propagate to ALL other instances of the plugin.

For the moment, I'm using #3 - leave it up to the user. For that, I am using NSUserDefaults, by manual "Save" button, not automatically. This is still error-prone though. Documented in the demo plugin:

http://www.macalchemy.com/nmdemo/demo-p … nudemo.zip

Sean

Awake from NIB?

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:27:28 +0000

I'll update our docs to include this too.

Pagelet Title Link?

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:26:07 +0000

Well I'll make a note of the request :)

API missing?

dummy@example.com (seanc) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:18:38 +0000

mikeabdullah wrote:

Could I get a copy of that plist do you think? I'm intrigued to see what info you're wanting that the built-in CSS styling is falling short on.

Mike:

I can send it, but it probably won't make sense outside the context of the rest of the plugin code. And it's out of sync with my current inspector controls (I stopped using it a long time ago, once I had determined that it could work).

Meanwhile, I can explain it. As you might guess by the wild variablity in each designs rendering of a nested list, I had to try & compensate for all the anomalies. It quickly became apparent that trying to do so on a design-by-design basis was futile. It was much cleaner & easier to reset (zero-out) every list element style, and start anew.

The fixed "resets" are done in a plugin.css resource file, added to page . Then the code generates the remaining CSS styles, initializing them from plist, and allowing the user to "fine tune" by inspector.

The "generated" CSS consists of 2 parts:

"Generic" values, which produce a consistent & acceptable "list", but which may or may not come close to looking like the "design" intended. These values are:

plugin
left margin (relative to "designs" #sidebar & .pagelet)
main list
- sub (nested) list
  - line-height

"Design" specific values, required to adapt to either "list-style" or "background-image" design bullet types:

page title text left-padding to uncover "background-image" types
"background-image" vertical positioning
sub-list left-margins (to align sublists with variable width "background-images")
the plugins custom bullet shade (dark/medium/light) to best match the designs background shade

It's the last 4 that would benefit most with "design detection" ability. As it is now, if you set it up to look good in a design that uses "list-style" bullets, then switch to a design that uses "background-image" bullets, it all goes wonky, requiring re-manilpulation of inspector values.

Sean

Sandvox 2.2 plug-in API changes

dummy@example.com (mikeabdullah) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:06:24 +0000

Once again, I come bearing tidings of a new build:

http://karelia.com/beta/_Sandvox-beta-24071.dmg?

Couple of tweaks you may be interested in:

If your plug-in wants to use a custom URL scheme for resource loading (our IM status plug-in does this for example), the
```
-addResourceAtURL:…
```
API now registers that properly to work when Internet access is turned off in the prefs
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