Change notes: Monday, December 20, 2021

Dave Winer's notes on development with Drummer and related projects.

Monday, December 20, 2021

Dealing with extra Drummer tabs#

On December 14, I wrote about the "Extra copies of Drummer left around" problem. #
I've implemented a fix that I'm fairly confident in. #
This is how it used to work.#

If you opened a copy of Drummer when you already had one open, on the same machine, the old one would redirect to the About page. #
If you opened a Drummer on another machine, nothing would happen, and it would be possible to lose work this way. #

Now, things work differently.#

If you open a copy of Drummer in a new window or tab on the same machine, or on a different machine, a dialog will appear on the old copy. Remember this is the version you're not using. When you come back you'll see the dialog. #
It says "Drummer is running in another tab. You must reload this one, or -- you can safely close it." #
Screen shot.#
If you click OK, the page reloads. #

The important thing is your files won't get out of sync now. #
If you have any questions or comments please post a note here.#

Hard Reload command#

There's a new Hard Reload command in the Tools menu that does a hard reload.#
This way we can be sure you got a new version of everything, without having the depend option keys and keeping the console open, etc. #
Much easier to just have a menu command. ;-)#

Updated the Image Browser tool#

Now includes the right-margin images that appeared on Scripting News since August 2021.#

RFC for including GitHub gists in Drummer blog posts#

Here's an RFC. It'll be a pretty straightforward thing. #
I want to do it, because it's useful for programmers, and it's good to have more of them using Drummer. Better bug reports, and possibility of help in branching-out projects. #
And also because GitHub is really useful. ;-)#
This was initially suggested by CR Oldham.#

Monday, December 20, 2021

Dealing with extra Drummer tabs#

On December 14, I wrote about the "Extra copies of Drummer left around" problem. #
I've implemented a fix that I'm fairly confident in. #
This is how it used to work.#

If you opened a copy of Drummer when you already had one open, on the same machine, the old one would redirect to the About page. #
If you opened a Drummer on another machine, nothing would happen, and it would be possible to lose work this way. #

Now, things work differently.#

If you open a copy of Drummer in a new window or tab on the same machine, or on a different machine, a dialog will appear on the old copy. Remember this is the version you're not using. When you come back you'll see the dialog. #
It says "Drummer is running in another tab. You must reload this one, or -- you can safely close it." #
Screen shot.#
If you click OK, the page reloads. #

The important thing is your files won't get out of sync now. #
If you have any questions or comments please post a note here.#

Hard Reload command#

There's a new Hard Reload command in the Tools menu that does a hard reload.#
This way we can be sure you got a new version of everything, without having the depend option keys and keeping the console open, etc. #
Much easier to just have a menu command. ;-)#

Updated the Image Browser tool#

Now includes the right-margin images that appeared on Scripting News since August 2021.#

RFC for including GitHub gists in Drummer blog posts#

Here's an RFC. It'll be a pretty straightforward thing. #
I want to do it, because it's useful for programmers, and it's good to have more of them using Drummer. Better bug reports, and possibility of help in branching-out projects. #
And also because GitHub is really useful. ;-)#
This was initially suggested by CR Oldham.#

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Last update: Tuesday December 21, 2021; 11:32 AM EST.