Toggle Expansion of all Peers of Selected Line

Bike Outliner
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In v1.7 (93) I see the following behavior:

  1. list item with 10 children, all expanded with items in them
  2. cmd+click one of those 10 children’s disclosure indicators ▼
  3. what happens: Bike focuses on that single item, and hides all parent/sibling items
  4. what i expect: Bike collapses all sibling items and shows :arrow_forward: for each

I like the ability to focus on a single item, maybe option+cmd+click to focus? the option+click and cmd+click semantics I feel are fairly standard in tree UIs, I’m thinking of Xcode’s file tree as an example.

Thanks for creating Bike, just started using it and really enjoying it!

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To toggle the expansion of all peers of the selected line, and all other lines at the same level, you could use a script like this:

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    // Expand or Collapse all visible peers
    // of selected line in BIKE.

    // Rob Trew @2022

    const
        bike = Application("Bike"),
        doc = bike.documents.at(0);

    return doc.exists() ? (() => {
        const
            row = doc.selectionRow,
            nLevel = row.level(),
            peers = doc.rows.where({
                level: nLevel,
                visible: true
            }),
            k = row.collapsed() ? (
                "expand"
            ) : "collapse";

        return (
            bike[k](peers),
            `${k} ${peers.length} rows.`
        );
    })() : "No documents open in Bike";
})();

(To test in Script Editor, set the language selector at top left to JavaScript)

See: Using Scripts - Bike

(Perhaps binding it to a keyboard shortcut or other trigger using something like Keyboard Maestro or FastScripts)

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Interesting, I actually didn’t know about that shortcut.

I think for now I’m going to leave those shortcuts as they are. I feel like focus in is more important in Bike and would like to keep Command-Click as that shortcut for now.

With that said I expect most people don’t know about that shortcut, just as I didn’t know about the shortcut you describe. At some point I might revisit Bike’s handle functionality and see if I can make focus in/out easier to accomplish from the handle. Seems many outliners now default to focus in/out on handle click instead of expand/collapse. Anyway I might revisit that, but it will require some thought and testing before I come up with anything.

Last … (and I see @complexpoint has already posted a script… thanks!) for now you can add this sort of functionally through scripting.

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Ah great! I hadn’t know about the scripting options, that’s a nice alternative. Thanks @complexpoint for the code, i’ll try that out.

Not sure how customizable you’re aiming to get this, but being able to customize the mouse click would be awesome too. i use option+click and cmd+click all the time in xcode, and sharing the muscle memory would be great. I can see the use of the zoom feature too - maybe double click? then single click to toggle, double to focus, and cmd/option/etc for the rarer options.

anyways, thanks for the app and for giving it a thought! and thanks @complexpoint again for the scripting code alternative

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I do plan to eventually add application side (as opposed to how AppleScript works) scripting… and that could pretty easily be handled with application side scripting. I still have a list of more basic features that I need to work on before I start more scripting work though.