Few things don’t make much sense, despite an attempt to press ahead without refactoring. Next post is going to treat about efforts on this little refactor.
… while those efforts were all about Class Diagrams! (pictures included)
→ Continue readingThe Console supports script prototyping which means you can edit a script and it will be automatically reloaded in The Console at the moment. But modules are different than single-file scripts. And this impacts script reloading, or rather module reloading.
Read on, GIFs included!
→ Continue readingIn previous posts (linked in the Summary) I discussed a topic of implementing modules in The Console. This time I’m going to describe my first step in this direction.
Currently The Console supports simple scripts - one .js file is one script, i.e. scripts/info/currency.js is just a currency command.
But that’s not enough. I want the modules, too. Here’s how I make them real.
→ Continue readingThe Console started as a small side project that was supposed to automatically perform things I do often manually. Checking exchange rates of currencies is one of amongst those repeated actions.
After a long research I’ve found a site that helps with compiling Xtend** **using Maven - http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/download.html - pretty straightforward, isn’t it? However, it lacks a few more things.
My goal was to compile and package Java 8 project together with JavaFX, written mostly in Xtend (in place of Java) with unpacked libraries into one Runnable JAR. In the end I’d like it to be compatible with e(fx)clipse IDE. Here’s how.
→ Continue readingAs I noticed in previous article about script management I’d like to support script sharing in The Console. This topic automatically brings idea of supporting Node.js modules. Nashorn doesn’t provide any kind of module import/export mechanism like CommonJS. However, it’s doable to provide custom require() and module.exports. But is it possible to really import Node.js modules or anything from npm?
→ Continue readingRead-eval-print loop is quite useful kind of tool that simplifies both learning and trying some short code ideas. REPLs are always very specific - they can be used for evaluating programming language statements, some math calculation, database management, file processing and so on. In The Console I decided having all those things and even more - way to incorporate custom REPLs.
However, idea have grown much more than expected. In this post I explain what’s the big deal to talk about which shows why the development have currently slowed down.
→ Continue readingThe Console supports multiple tabs. By hitting CTRL+T combination new tab is opened and auto-named. I decided to name tabs as “Tab 1”, “Tab 2”, etc. However, those tabs can be renamed and moved inbetween so auto-naming need an algorithm. I’ve done similiar operation few times but never done this specific things by using Lambda Expressions in Xtend. I was quite surprised by one small detail.
→ Continue readingIn The Console I primarily use JavaFX for UI. Nonetheless, due to problem with having undecorated taskbar-less always-on-top window I use JFrame from Java Swing to solve it. And here appears a new issue with Swing - how to regain once lost window focus in JFrame?
→ Continue readingThe biggest feature of my console software is ability to code own “commands” - scripts. It’s supposed to be easy and quick for programmers. I’m not trying to design my own DSL language or make users install some weird packages into system. JavaScript and console API is all you need to know to code your custom scripts.
If one of goals of The Console project is to make easy custom scripting then it’s logical that you need some way to manage your scripts. Putting all scripts in one file or even all scripts in one folder would be a mess. So, how to manage those files? How The Console deals with it?
→ Continue readingIn my weird software called The Console I decided to introduce tabs - a mechanism similiar to tabs that exist in web browsers. Here’s a (not really) brief story about it and why Dijkstra was right.
Today I present a few snippets around JavaFX WebView that I use in The Console:
Rich text component is a user interface component that displays text by styling various parts of it differently. Very often Rich Text components are used for editors. An example may be any code editor that supports highlighting. I needed such UI component for my latest application - The Console so now I’ll shortly discuss a comparison between few options:
Applications that are launched in Windows OS are by default listed on taskbar. For a utility software like The Console it is not the case. It shouldn’t pollute our task bar or even tray. It should be available under hotkey and that’s it.
Problem is, JavaFX won’t allow us. Previously presented line stage.initStyle(StageStyle.UNDECORATED) gives us undecorated window but collides with stage.initStyle(StageStyle.UTILITY) which makes window’s task not visible in taskbar but window itself is then decorated.
Between workarounds I’ve found a solution. TL;DR initialize window using Swing.
→ Continue readingSome time ago I made this project https://github.com/Namek/TheConsole_POC for Windows OS. It’s usage goes like this: hit CTRL+TILDE and on the top of the screen will open a Quake 3 Arena thingie that’ll enable you to type in some commands. Commands are JavaScript’able and that’s the power of the tool. I did some hacks here and there so I decided to change some techs and remake whole beauty to improve efficiency of use.
→ Continue readingcontenteditable is a new HTML5 feature where you can edit any text inside DOM elements which are not editable by default (as input or textearea). Angular 2 is gaining it’s momentum right now but couldn’t find a recipe to bind contenteditable element to certain model object. I decided to write a simple Directive that binds element in two-way through element’s innerText field.
→ Continue readingProbably the best starting point for Angular and Meteor combo is angular-meteor.com website. There’s a neat tutorial for both AngularJS versions - 1.x and 2.0. But it’s still JavaScript and we want TypeScript (because of reasons), right?
What really tormented me was a real usage of TypeScript with Meteor and some quirks about it, as for beginner. Spent some time around it, so I’m going to share the final result.
→ Continue readingTrello. Tasks. I was tired of seeing this blue-ish default color every single day. I know, there’s palette to change a background but I needed something more fancy - since I work with it everyday, it could also look different everyday!
So I made a simple script using Tampermonkey extension under Chrome web browser. On Firefox you could go similiar way with Greasemonkey.
→ Continue readingThere’s a cool visual log viewer for Laravel 4/5: rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer. Installation is short and straight-forward but logs shouldn’t be accessible by anyone. That’s why I setup access password. The easier, the better so this time I just used HTTP Basic Auth but without database.
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