Sorry this release took so long. I wanted to document the public scripting API, but along with that came lots of internal changes needed to cleanup various APIs. Going forward I think development will speed up again.
Added item path /// shortcut to map to descendant-or-self axis.
Added full date/time query support. Format is described in user’s guide.
Changed to a single “move” style. Now moves are always by line instead of branch.
Changed color space used to create theme colors so they will match web colors exactly.
Changed focus/hoisted item to only show the item’s children, not the item itself.
I know some people like to see the hoisted project name when they hoist a project, but this created many oddities in the UI and API because that hoisted item was a special case.
Going forward I think the TaskPaper 2 behavior can be more cleanly recreated by applying a filter in the same way that TaskPaper 2 did. I plan to add support for this, but it’s not in place yet.
I have a question about restoring window size/position/condition though. 166 and now 167 do not appear to remember any window position, size, and condition that I use.
So, if I open a file, hide the sidebar and resize the window, no matter what I seem to do, the next time I open that file (or any other file) it returns to a default size of the sidebar shown and a tiny window in the middle of my screen. I even tried reinstalling to see if this changed. Am I the only one seeing this? Is this intended behavior? I’d personally prefer a more typical behavior of remembering the window size and condition I set for new files.
When you have time the stored searches: I have tried updating the syntax with all the new selectors (not too different), but the functionality of @search seems to have stopped working for me. I can imagine with all the new work this was a low priority but there was no mention of it in the release notes.
@jessegrosjean, I have played around with the dates, but for some strange reason, the next month hard coded date does not work as expected.
I tried the other hard coded dates, and it is just amazing. My whole workflow needs to be redone completely, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. I was also pleasantly surprised that in addition to what the manual says, one can also do something like +3 weeks and it works. I am really happy with this program.
Are you still thinking about implementing the month variable? I see that I can do something like +2 week, or +30 day and it works, but it doesn’t work with month.
I noted that for some reason, my saved searches are not clickable from the side bar (All the saved @search lines at the end of my document). Is that a bug other people can see?
In other topics (I was encouraged by the site to add several topics in a post instead of creating several replies). I do enjoy the ability to type ///* instead of the whole descendant-or-self::* Are there other hard coded elements added? An example I remember was the idea of using /./* instead of having to type /ancestor*.
Thanks for all the reports… will get saved searches fixed soon. I changed a lot of stuff and everything was broken for a while. I didn’t realized that saved searches were still broken. Will fix soon.
"TypeError: editor.getSelectedItems is not a function. (In 'editor.getSelectedItems()', 'editor.getSelectedItems' is undefined)\n\nTaskPaperContextScript\nevaluateScript@file:///Applications/TaskPaper3.app/Contents/Resources/dist/birch.js:49363:16\n\n\tUse the Help > SDKRunner to debug"
Based on very quick experimentation, the scripting docs would benefit of a complete example that clarifying how one goes from editor to the other object and how can the options object can be used.
I’d like to take this beta for a test run but I’m told I’m out of “trial” days. Is that possibly true with a beta? I think I last tested around Sept, so I’m sure a lot has changed. I don’t mind a limited license, but I would like to see what has changed with TaskPaper. Anything that can be done?
Folded items exploding if moved through an unfolded item. If I’ve created a sub-outline and folded it, i think it should be protected by TP. What is happening (new in 167, i think) is that a folded item explodes open and merges with the children of an unfolded item.
Header1_folded_with_children
Header2
Subheader2
If I Move_Down ** Header1_folded_with_children** below Header2, Header1_folded_with_children explodes open, and Subheader2 ends up in the children of Header1_folded_with_children. I’ve even seen the Subheader2 disappear completely.
I don’t know if this is easy to code or not, but we need folded items to stay folded unless we explicitly open them. Else, what’s the point of folding?
