feature suggestion about stss

[winsonet]

and I have enhanced the stss file's input and output folder, I think it better put all stss file into another folder (like lib) in the style folder, so my folder structure is:

app
----styles
----------lib
------------view.stss

or with platform

app
----styles
--------ios
----------lib
------------view.stss

after that, it will generate the tss file into the normal styles folder. I just changed the alloy.jmk file and for you reference:

var platform = config.alloyConfig.platform,
        platformDir = platform === 'ios' ? 'iphone' : config.alloyConfig.platform,
        srcDirs = [
            config.dir.styles + '/lib', //add the lib folder
            path.join(config.dir.styles + '/lib', platformDir)  //add the lib folder
        ],
        files;

    srcDirs.forEach(function(dir) {
        if (fs.existsSync(dir)) {
            files = fs.readdirSync(dir);
            files.forEach(function(file) {
                var inFile = path.join(dir, file),
                    outFile;

                if (/\.stss$/.test(file) && fs.statSync(inFile).isFile()) {
                    var outFileFolder = path.dirname(inFile);
                    //get the normal output folder
                    outFileFolder = outFileFolder.substring(0, outFileFolder.length - 4);
                    outFile = path.join(outFileFolder, path.basename(inFile, '.stss') + '.tss');
                    logger.info('Rendering STSS ' + file + ' to '+ outFile);

                    // Convert STSS to TSS
                    renderer.renderSync({
                        file: inFile,
                        outFile: outFile,
                        error: function(err) {
                            if (err.title && err.line) {
                                logger.error('STSS: ' + err.title);
                                logger.error('');
                                logger.error(err.line);
                                logger.error('');
                                logger.error(err.processed);
                            } else {
                                logger.error(err.message);
                            }
                            err = {message: 'Error STSS conversion failed', toString: function() {return this.message;}};
                            throw (err);
                        }
                    });
                }
            });
        }
    });

[rtuin]

@winsonet you might want to check out this blogpost on TiDev.io regarding calculations and expressions in tss/stss: http://www.tidev.io/2014/10/22/how-to-use-expressions-in-tss/

[RonaldTreur]

@winsonet Sorry for the (very!) late reply, but the article @rtuin's referred to seems to be the only valid approach to do this.

STSS has no knowledge about values you declared in your alloy.js. And even if it would (which will never happen) that would not be enough, since you are simply assigning another constant to your global property. One which we also don't know the value of during compilation of the STSS data.

So I'm closing this for now.

[winsonet]

I see, thanks for your reply!