JavaFX punched me in the face with a feature which I consider as a kind of general over-assumption and as a bug in The Console. When TextField is refocused through other event than click then it auto selects it’s whole content. I want my previous selection or caret position.
A workaround/hack/fix is introduced in this post. Oh, by the way, there’s a bug report.
→ Continue readingThe Console works on top of Java Nashorn API which brings in a whole JavaScript environment. On ng-conf 2016 I saw this slide from Brad Green talking about Angular 2 inside of Nashorn:
Just what a thought could come up to my mind?
→ Continue readingWhen I use git VCS, I simply work in a shell. Even more complicated branching can be resolved using git show-branch command. But this time I wanted to compare that again with gitk. Since I work on Windows I use babun which is based on Cygwin. And we know that Cygwin can actually launch gitk properly, right? Well, yes - when you configure it.
→ Continue readingThis time I present a filesystem module which mimics the simplest cases of shell commands: ls, pwd, cd, cat. The module showcases module commands, scoping, Storage and onload/onunload events.
→ Continue readingFew 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 readingContinuing on my Retake on The Console.
Just installed Eclipse package which is named e(fx)clipse and contains plugins for some better JavaFX support and includes support for Xtend programming language - which is nice. Thanks to this configuration I decided to try Xtend instead of Java. Xtend’s main selling point for me is type inference which reduces verbosity. It’s a feature that I liked within TypeScript so I’ve already got good experience about it.
→ 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.
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