tedit development and design discussion

Josele13

@danfro I have Tedit version v3.4.0

Josele13

@danfro is a good idea --------> Btw. how about a button to toggle the toolbar visible/not visible? Would you consider that useful? The padlock would be sitting on the left side of that button.

domubpkm

@danfro Hello. Don't forget to put the direct links of builds because morph doesn't work with gitlab .

danfro

@domubpkm Oh, I keep forgetting that. Here it is for arm64 ~~https://gitlab.com/Danfro/tedit/-/jobs/8989651946/artifacts/download?file_type=archive~~ I may as well provide the one with the toolbar button: https://gitlab.com/Danfro/tedit/-/jobs/8989958545/artifacts/download?file_type=archive

danfro

@Josele13 The version will be the same, only when I make a new release it will change. The question is, do you run the app installed from OpenStore? Or did you install it from the link to the pipeline which I posted?

danfro

@Josele13 Ok, fine. I will add that then.

Josele13

@danfro it is the openstore version

Josele13

one other thing to note,
I open the Tedit app
I turn off the screen by pressing the power button,
I turn on the screen by pressing the power button and unlock the home page, the Tedit app has disappeared from the screen,
if I do the same with another app it doesn't happen, the app is still in the foreground.

I open more apps including Tedit, for example three open apps,
I turn off the screen by pressing the power button,
I turn on the screen and unlock the home screen with Tedit in the foreground and the app disappears and I am left with the other two apps.
If I turn on the screen while Tedit is in the background, it is still there and I still have the three apps open,
I do not know if I have explained well.

danfro

@Josele13 Sadly that is know to crash. The version you can download from the link above contains a possible fix for the crashes. I am not 100% sure though, I could be only lucky, but I had no crash since using that.

danfro

@Josele13 Yes, I had this too, so I know what you describe. This as well might be fixed now.

domubpkm

@danfro not the problems discribed by @Josele13 for me with your last build. But before the last build, i don't know if the problem was there on the volla 22.

danfro

@domubpkm On my OP5T, I had tedit open and any other app. When I was doing the short swipe on the right edge to quick-switch between the two apps, tedit would always crash. But this seems to be fixed now.

In the end it doesn't matter too much if you had it before or not. Important is, that it doesn't happen anymore now.

danfro

I just released v3.5.0 of tedit, should appear in OpenStore soon.

domubpkm

@danfro hello. The arrow button to toggle toolbar on and off seems to be not very visible. Maybe improve contrast in a next update, if possible.

And just to point out that you are doing a great job improving Tedit. Thanks again !

danfro

@domubpkm thanks for mentioning this. I mainly use dark theme, so I missed that in abiance. I will try to fix that soon.

Josele13

@danfro Thank you, with this version Tedit works very well.

domubpkm

@danfro Hello. Did you make some progress to find a solution for a 'reading mode only' ?

danfro

@domubpkm I am sorry, I forgot to reply. Sadly so far I haven't found a working solution.

When setting the TextArea to read-only, we can't navigate in it. So no option. I didn't found time yet to see if some manually added controls allow moving the text in read-only mode.

I also tried (after your question, could you please open an issue/feature request so I don't forget about that?) to display the file in a webview. I used that successfully when testing something for weather app and webviews allow pinching and dragging and that.
But for some reason simply instantiating a webview component in the code, not even displaying a file, always crashes tedit (of course no error message that might give a direction where to look at). I am totally lost here why that happens. Many apps use webviews for various purposes.