Part of the Clay Basket Website. 7/22/96.

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Bugs

Website building issues

Dealing with plain outline nodes, non-sitefile references.

Rebuilding could handle multiple summits -- is this a bug or a feature? Right now we just build the first summit. This makes sense for the automatically generated outline -- there's no need to point at the same page you're already on.

There's a memory leak in here somewhere.

Outliner fixes

HTML tags in headlines -- right now it really barfs on this -- may have to rewrite the unpacking routines.

On opening a file, scroll vertically to be sure the cursor is visible.

Check madechanges -- need to set it in a bunch of places.

What to do about JPEGs?

And other media types? FTP downloads?

Memory leaks

Bringing up Page Info window loses about 4K.

Quitting while uploading

If the upload is hung, rolling the beachball, waiting for a connection that's not going to happen, I try to quit Clay, it takes the command, closes the window, but the beachball keeps rolling. We're not watching a returned value somewhere down in the bowels of the tcp code. Probably the call to appserviceeventqueue or something like that.

HTML tags in mousetype, jcarina@hawaii.edu.

I inserted a <BR> tag into the mousetype window and whammo! After a full build and save, a re-open revealed a sterile outline. I suspect this will work with any kind of tag inserted into mousetype.

Deleting the only line in a outline

Start a new outline. Press Cmd-X. Crash.

Cmd-2clicking in clay text windows

If you cmd-2click on something that's defined in the object db, Frontier comes to the front and using the selected text as an address opens the object.

Finder verb to move icons around in windows

For the FinderMenu install file. I understand that the scriptable Finder can get and set icon position. Write and test glue scripts for this.

FinderMenu bugs -- Finder.open calls are problems. Maybe others. The problem is that the Finder doesn't understand send-to-self Apple Events.

Error-log callback script

Information passed to script: file containing the error, macro source text and the error message string. It can save it to an outline a table a text file an email message, whatever.

New install files with clay-related slant

The commands: Preview Page, Add to Glossary.

The apps: Netscape, BBEdit, Frontier

Connection between Eudora and Clay?

Automatically launch Frontier when a macro is evaluated

Copy/paste in Location window

Once you put something in the URL box, is there a keyboard shortcut to save and close the box? Just closing the box doesn't save what you've put in.

Add error dialogs when a build fails

There are lots of places where we just return false without saying anything.

Look at bugs in reading bookmark files

I've accumulated a few buggy files from Clay Basket 1.0b4 users.

Cmd-single-quote is the Page Preview command in all menus

It works in BBEdit. It should also work in the following apps: Netscape 2.0, Clay Basket (of course!) and Frontier. In any of these apps, if you press cmd-single-quote the page is re-rendered by Clay Basket's rendering engine, and displayed in Netscape.

Note: for the command to appear in Netscape's menu bar, you must be running Netscape 2.0b1 or greater (it requires menu sharing, which is supported in Netscape 2.0). The rendering works in Netscape 1.1 or 2.0, which requires Apple Event support, which appeared in Netscape 1.1.

Add-to-glossary command in Netscape shared menu

I have this working on my machine, it's cool. Whatever page you're on in the browser, decide to add it to the glossary, select the command, type in the name into a dialog, and it's in the glossary. I'm doing this with every DaveNet piece I write, so I can refer to them inside single quotes in other websites like this one, like this Don't Feed the Geeks.

Printing outlines

Sean McMains, FSM014@email.mot.com

It appears that the icons in the outline view disappear when the window isn't on the primary monitor.

cbales@mta.ca">cbales@mta.ca (Cameron Bales)

I would like a place to put my template files other than the Global resources folder. A place simlar to the "Input folder" so that I could have templates associated with just one file.

I would like to be able to set the Background pattern with the Page info box. (I promise to try to make sure by background patterns don't suck).

Eric.Kidd@Dartmouth.EDU">Eric.Kidd@Dartmouth.EDU

If I try to use ".GIF" files on my normal web server, the MIME types get confused. It only accepts ".gif" unless I create a .htaccess file entry to correct it. UNIX is case sensitive... Yuck.

From kdjanz@cadvision.com

A list of all the changed pages for each build and then transform that list to a page in the site that visitors can use to find the latest stuff? That is something that I wish for at the Clay site - a list of the pages that have changed from day to day, so that I could go and find just the new stuff. We should be able to generate something like that totally automagically.

WebWarrior

Funny, all this talk about pagemill support in ClayBasket. Anybody looked at WebWarrior yet? While not 100% WYSIWYG it does do tables, it seems to have an aete resource and dictionary for scriptibility and seems generally much cooler than PageMill. The only thing it is missing is the picture handling stuff that PageMill has.

http://www.bact.wisc.edu/WebWarriorTop.html

jon@aggroup.com

P.S. Did I mention it is free?

Edit Text File bugs

(1) Edit Text File

What should (properly) happen when I create a new outline item and choose "Edit Text File" from the "Website" menu? I think what should happen is that Clay should create a new file in the Input folder with the same name as the Outline Item. As long as "Page Info" is invoked first, it does happen; if not, Clay creates a file named "File" in the input folder..

(2) Edit Location paths

I moved to another machine today and noticed that this somehow broke a few links in my outline back to the text files. Rather than the relative path: sitefile:///myfile

I was getting a full path originating from a drive no longer available. I'm not sure how/why this happened. I used "Edit Location" to edit the path back into the relative form above.

It's possible that this is what's causing some people to "lose" data. Once uncoupled from an outline item, the text file is still there, but choosing "Edit Text File" won't locate and open it. (Nothing happens on my machine.) The file can be manually re-linked through "Edit Location", however.

David Bruns

Crasher

If you delete every item from an outline, it quits with an error of type 1.

Edit text file in Netscape shared menu

I would like an "Edit Text File" command in Netscape's shared menu. I wrote a Frontier script that does the job with a few tricks, but depends heavily on Clay Basket's way to "remember" the chosen text editor (Clay creates an alias to the editor in one of its folders...) and other things. It might be better to provide this functionality as a Clay Basket verb.

bug report from lmd@tiac.net

When _I_ drag a folder of text files into an open window, the outliner digests everything very nicely and grows its branches. Everything is hunky dorey except for the folders themselves, which become summits (but not pages) and so very difficult to dislodge (which they must be, since folders cannot be made pages -- yes?).

The Preferences menu item seems never to be enabled. What is the menu routine waiting for from me?

Bookmarks menu in Clay

Points to headlines in specific outlines. Assume that two values are needed to specify a page -- a filespec and a page title. It could be done in scripts. See clay.website.openToPage for a starter.

Distiller script

We need a script that makes a copy of a website and all its folders, but omits files that aren't pointed to by the outline. 

This page was last built with Frontier on a Macintosh on Mon, Jul 22, 1996 at 10:34:13 PM. Thanks for checking it out! Dave