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By following the suggestions for troubleshooting homebrew [3] a
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QtCore.Qt.GlobalColor does not have any accessors for the predefined
colors on PyQt versions before 5.11 despite the object itself existing.
It would have been nice if the documentation* had mentioned that object
being broken on older versions, but I should have tested with even older
versions of PyQt before submitting the original patch.
Apparently the most supported way to access these colors is through the
Qt namespace itself, but those aren't documented in the slightest. Ugh.
My apologies to all those affected. Fixes issue #659.
*: https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/api/qtcore/qt.html#GlobalColor
Update the language translation source '.ts' files with the
translatable strings in the source code with the following command:
$ make translation
This effectively runs the following command:
$ pylupdate5 -noobsolete i18n/manuskript.pro
After updating the '.ts' translation source files from weblate,
compile all of the language translations into '.qm' files.
This was done with the following command:
$ make i18n
This effectively runs the 'lrelease' command on each '.ts' file. For
example:
$ lrelease i18n/manuskript_es.ts
A previous fix (5f9ea3) inadvertently broke the progress bar by
converting to the wrong data type. (See issue #561 / PR #609).
While checking the code I realized the problem occurred primarily
because we weren't checking the validity of the values closer to the
source. Doing so alleviates the need to check elsewhere.
In the hope of inspiring a more systematic approach, a new uiParse()
utility function has been added to curb the further growth of toXxx()
functions that exist solely to validate user input.
There is no doubt room for improvement, both on the end of the new
uiParse() function as well as the spot where it is used. Ideally, the
data that comes out of the model should already be 'safe', but since
this is a bugfix for a bugfix I want to keep waves to a minimum.
This commit fixes issue #652.
This commit sets the "keep revisions" setting to disabled by default
for new projects. It also removes the test cases associated with
revisions.
The revisions feature as currently implemented is of questionable use.
It has been a source of performance issues for users, and has consumed
developer time in attempts to address its shortcomings. This commit
is the first step to deprecate the current revisions feature.
See PR #651
This commit restores the functionality that prevents spell checking a
word that is being actively typed at the end of a paragraph.
The goals for the spell check word match regexp are:
A. Words should include those with an apostrophe
*E.g., can't*
B. Words should exclude underscore
*E.g., hello_world is two words*
C. Words in other languages should be recognized
*E.g., French word familiarisé*
D. Spell check should include word at absolute end of line with no
trailing space or punctuation
*E.g., tezt*
E. Spell check should ignore partial words in progress (user typing)
*E.g., paragr while midway through typing paragraph*
This commit addresses all five of the above goals.
HISTORY:
- See issue #166 and commit 6ec0c19 in the 0.5.0 release.
- See issue #283 and commit 63b471e in the 0.7.0 release.
Also fix minor incorrect utf-8 encoding at top of source file.
See issue #611 and pull request #642.
The warning previously added in PR #612 for Manuskript users with Qt
5.11 / 5.12 has shown itself, in my opinion, to be overly annoying.
This is because the warning *always* displays on systems with the
affected Qt versions even though the crash is verified to happen with
the import feature only.
Additionally the process to upgrade to a newer version of PyQt / Qt is
not trivial for users who rely on pre-built packages and do not run
from source code.
Because the crash has been verified with the Import feature only, limit
the scope of the warning to the Import feature.
The user can configure a language for Manuskript in the dialog, but
before that setting is ever written to disk, there is the default
behaviour that tries to auto-detect the best language to show based on
the configuration of the device it is running on.
While doing my due diligence on issue #619, I realized we were relying
on the system locale, which is not necessarily equivalent to the
language the user is working with. Worse still: a user can have multiple
preferred languages for their user interface, and our old approach might
actually offer them the 'wrong' language. This patch fixes this.
It also refactors and comments things a little bit where necessary.
Issue #619 revealed an unintentional overlap between the auto-detection
of the locale and the implicit builtin English language, which resulted
in users being unable to select the builtin English language when their
device was configured with a locale that we happen to have a translation
for. The code has been rewritten to more clearly separate auto-detection
and the final fallback that is the builtin English translations.
This code change sets:
- Fequency Analyzer tool default first tab of "Word frequency"
(was Phrase frequency)
Steps to set default window tab:
1. Start Qt Designer
2. Open .ui file
3. Ensure that each selected window tab is the one desired as default
4. Save .ui file
5. Exit Qt Designer
6. Generate .py file with: make ui
See PR #623
This code change sets:
- Character pane default first tab of "Basic info" (was Notes)
- Character pane Basic info "Name" as the default first field (was Motivation)
- Plots pane default first tab of "Basic info" (was Resolution steps)
Steps to edit tab order and default window tab:
1. Start Qt Designer
2. Open .ui file
3. Choose menu **Edit -> Edit Tab Order**
4. Ctrl-click on item just before the first incorrect tab order item
5. Click other items in order until remaining order is correct
6. Ensure that each selected window tab is the one desired as default
7. Save .ui file
8. Exit Qt Designer
9. Generate .py file with: make ui
See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/designer-tab-order.html
This code change implements a portion of issue #244
Last time I touched this code, I went in looking for a specific problem,
and came out with a fix specific to that issue. That fix was not wrong,
yet it hardly covered all the problems present in the code once one took
into account issues like:
- local vs remote resources,
- relative vs absolute paths,
- different operating systems behaving differently, and
- Qt being uniquely buggy on different platforms.
The major part of it was fixed by using QUrl.fromUserInput(), which does
the exact kind of auto-detection for the nature of the resource that we
were in need of.
The rest of the issues were fixed by creating a number of test cases and
fixing problems as they popped up. Testing was done in Windows & Ubunty
against the above-mentioned test cases, which can be found in PR #629.
Regarding ImageTooltip.supportedSchemes
When QUrl.fromUserInput() misidentifies the scheme on Linux, it causes
all resemblance between the original request and the reply.request() in
the finished() signal to be lost, which results in this item getting
stuck in the ImageTooltip processing pipeline.
Limiting the supported schemes to the ones most commonly encountered
('file', 'http', 'https' and the schema-less local paths) is the only
reliable method I have found to work around this particular bug in Qt.
Windows 10 has supported a 'dark theme' option for a while, and the fact
Manuskript is like looking into a bastion of bright white while using it
is bothersome to say the least.
Since this is a setting defined as the OS level, I believe this should
be something Manuskript automatically adjusts itself to match, thus the
lack of a configurable setting on the Manuskript end.
Qt has garbage documentation. I dug into Qt 5.0 source code to make sure
the crashing call can be safely left out for older versions, and that is
indeed the case. setSupportedSchemes() appears to be introduced together
with the future to select non-local files in the dialog, but we only
cared about local files to begin with.
I happened to notice the UI briefly locking up when testing my previous
changes on some of the Pandoc exporters. While the bigger mess I found
along the way is more than a little fix can handle, this stopgap measure
will at least stop us from running pandoc when it isn't needed.
According to issue #608 we were silently overwriting files when there
was a suffix being generated for a chosen export filename when one was
missing to begin with. Unfortunately, this helpful feature avoids all
the conveniences offered by QFileDialog in regards to alerting the user
to overwriting an existing file. Worse still, this feature already
exists in QFileDialog and the native APIs it can rely on.
This patch reimplements QFileDialog.getSaveFileName to allow the use of
the default suffix feature as functions.getSaveFileNameWithSuffix and
removes most of the magic involved with the old solution.
It is the only FileDialog in the entire codebase that does not conform
to the rest of the OS like its brethren, and it stuck out like a sore
thumb because of it.
Some bugs are out of our reach to fix, but can still impact the user
considerably. Because losing progress always hurts, we want to make
the user aware of the risks before any tears are shed. (PR #612)
