trevordevore / bakers-assistant

LiveCode plugin for installing Helpers for Levure applications

bakers-assistant

Baker's Assistant

Baker's Assistant is a plugin for LiveCode that helps you with your Levure application development.

Installation

You will find the plugin in a subfolder of the ./builds/release/ folder. Download the latest version of bakers_assistant_plugin.livecode file and place it in the LiveCode plugins folder.

Demonstration

Watch this screencast for a demonstration of how the plugin works.

Packaging Plugin

To package the plugin for use in the LiveCode plugins folder load the application into the IDE and call BuildPlugin "release" from the message box. A single file, packaged version, of the app will appear in the ./builds/release folder under a folder named after the current version defined in app.yml.

bakers-assistant's Issues

Paste controls as sibling of closed group

When using a group's action menu, pasting a control pastes it as the first child. This is correct if the group node is open in the tree. If the group node is closed then the control should be pasted as a sibling.

Add all registered UI components to UI Stacks menu

The PopulateUITypesMenu should add any registered ui components rather than special casing embeddable views

Discovering Levure Helpers on Github

The Bakers Assistant plug-in should allow a developer to search for helpers in a central location. The helpers should be able to be installed automatically into the application. If the application uses git then the option of adding the helper as a submodule should be available.

To start, Github can be used as the central repo and can be searched by the levure-helper topic. Overview of process:

• Repos are tagged with levure-helper
• Bakers Assistant queries Github
• User can scroll through results and read the README
• If app is using .git then helper can be added as a submodule. Otherwise it is added as a folder
• Can check if current version of helper installed is current version on github

This feature can be approached in phases. For example:

Phase 1: Create code for searching and returning results from Github.
Phase 2: Create code for adding helper to current Levure project.
Phase 3: Extend code to support adding as a submodule.
Phase 4: Version checking.
Phase 5: Create UI for displaying results in a DataView in Baker's Assistant.
Phase 6: Add ability to preview README

Add drag reordering support to Stacks tree

The DataView Tree helper has robust support for drag and drop. Use this API to add drag reordering of controls and cards within UI stacks.

Ability to browser Helper folder contents in Helpers tab

The Helpers tab just lists helpers right now and allows you to reveal the helper folder in the system file browser. A couple of possible improvements:

1. Turn into a file browser. Expanding a helper shows files/folders within the helper.

OR

2. Categorize libraries, UI stacks, IDE stacks, etc. under each Helper node.

OR

3. Display the helper.yml nodes under the Helper node.

add levure actions and parameters

• levureBuildStandaloneForTesting
• levurePackageApplication
• levureRunApplication
• levureBuildExtensions
• levureTestApplicationInSimulator