TaskPaper 3.5 Preview (236)

Neill_Cohen · August 23, 2016, 1:38pm

I’ve tried the print feature- thank you for this! What is the best way to adjust font size? The default is rather large.

ordenador · August 23, 2016, 1:52pm

I’m having the same issue. I press the return key, it advances to the next line, but I cannot input text. The up and down arrows work, as well as the enter key, but it won’t allow for text input. I have found that the only way to solve this is to quit TaskPaper and start again.

ordenador · August 23, 2016, 1:53pm

It only happens in TaskPaper.

JonL · August 23, 2016, 5:34pm

Appears in Console as uncaught exception and: “_registerUndoObject:: BirchEditor. DisabledUndoManager 0x7f9ce164acc0 is in invalid state, must begin a group before registering undo”

jessegrosjean · August 23, 2016, 6:30pm

Thanks, I think I’ve got a fix in the next release for this one.

jessegrosjean · August 23, 2016, 9:56pm

You need to edit the theme file and modify the @user-font-size in the theme that you’ve chosen to print with. This is easy if you know how to edit themes, but painful if you don’t. I’ll look to add a simpler zoom in/out button in the print preview dialogue, hopefully for 3.5 release.
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jessegrosjean · August 23, 2016, 10:10pm

I certainly wouldn’t change this codebase back

I like Swift (also using Objective-c runtime from Swift) better. There are certainly some headaches that come with swift related to complexity of type system combined with me not understanding how it all fits together exactly. But there are few really big wins that I wouldn’t want to leave behind:

I don’t need to mange separate header files!
I don’t need to manager importing individual files!
Generally the syntax feels more like CoffeeScript (which I use for the JavaScript layer), even though the runtime is very different. Still nice to have similar syntax.

Neill_Cohen · August 24, 2016, 2:14am

Thanks so much. I do know how to install themes, so until you offer this feature, I’m sure I’ll manage.

jessegrosjean · August 24, 2016, 2:22pm

Is this problem temporary, or do you need a to restart TaskPaper to make it go away. I’m trying to figure out if is related to some underlying crash, or an input handling problem. If it’s related to underlying crash then might be better in yesterdays release (that fixed a number of crash problems). Anyway, thanks for help, and of course if you can figure out how to reproduce that helps even more.

mylevelbest · August 25, 2016, 2:33pm

Yesterday I saw an upgrade on the beta version. When I tried to download I got an Error message. Same thing again today. Was that version pulled? Or, is there a link to get it directly instead of going through the app?

I was glad to read in the notes that the tags are now being tried as a separate section in the sidebar. Looking forward to a more customizable sidebar experience.

Also looking forward to using customs font sizes and colors with my priority tags in the beta version again.

jessegrosjean · August 25, 2016, 2:39pm

You must manually update this release. Remove the current version and download the new directly from these forums:

mylevelbest · August 25, 2016, 2:50pm

Thanks. Like seeing Tags and Searches seperated. Would love to see all sections on sidebar collapsable though, Projects, Searches, Tags.

Also seeing you now have an alphabetic sort applied to searches. Not liking that too much as I have my searches in a priority order that I use them in. I now use the order that I arrange them to but if this version stays I will have to put a number in front of each search to make sure it arranges correctly in the sidebar. Workable but a curious change.

Also not sure what happened to all the font colors and sizes I was using for my tags. Hoping this gets back to how it was or I can begin to understand how to tweak this theme.less code if it has changed. Took a look at your punch list of items Done, Backlogged, etc. It looks like you are already aware of this beta version not using tags with styles like before so I will leave you to it.

As always thanks very much for all the hard work.

mylevelbest · August 25, 2016, 3:16pm

Since dragging but the handle is so important (dragging text creates a duplicate that you don’t really want to see - which I can see you are working on), I would like to suggest that making the little circle where you have to click to drag a line is a little small and could be larger. I think it would be much better if it was a square and fully sized to the line it is ahead of.

I have to really concentrate to click on that lightly colored and very small circle now to drag it. A bigger area to grab to drag would be very useful.

kleerkoat · August 25, 2016, 4:33pm

just had a hard crash when I was playing with my stylesheet and had a line with bad syntax. Taskpaper wouldn’t open at all until I fixed it.

It used to use the default stylesheet with bad syntax before.

kleerkoat · August 25, 2016, 4:39pm

i’m no stylesheet expert but I changed this line and it made the circle/handles bigger:

@ui-scale: 2;

jessegrosjean · August 25, 2016, 4:51pm

@mylevelbest There’s actually a more direct way:

editor {
  item-handle-size: floor(7 * @ui-scale);
}

And just modify that value 7 to be larger.

jessegrosjean · August 25, 2016, 4:51pm

Thanks for the report, will get that fixed.

mylevelbest · August 25, 2016, 5:17pm

Thanks and to the point, has the theme.less file been altered in this new beta version? Are we talking standard theme.less here, or some other from of style sheet? I no longer show my tweaks to tag color and font size that I use in my non beta version.

kleerkoat · August 25, 2016, 5:19pm

it happened on that ui-scale line when I forgot the ;

i messed up some other lines and it didn’t crash and defaulted to a plain text view

mylevelbest · August 25, 2016, 6:31pm

Thanks, that helps. It is still a faint orange color and hard to see. Can I add to that command and darken it or fill it with a color?

Trying: item-handle-color: rgb(50, 100, 50);

No getting a change.