PLX OBEX - Feedback, ideas and todo's
VonSzarvas
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Update: As of 2023.11.16. site (and url) has been renamed to obex.parallax.com
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Well here's one: Something weird's going on with that theme switch. Seems to always animate when loading a new page and sometimes you'll get a flash of white when navigating, which is awful and possibly a photosensitivity hazard.
Hot Diggity! Can't wait to start adding code.
(If still flashing, please try to notice where/how...?) ok, found the flashing. groovy. That and the random appearing blue hover folder are hereby marked for eradication! Thxs!
All current user registrations now approved to contribute obex articles.
See the new dropdown menu option, at the top "obex" menu item.
(All current users except the spammers of course, who already tripped off the auto-approval Great No time to deal with that today )
Can't seem to add any source code. When I click submit it has a popup that says "The following file(s) are not uploaded succesfully: [named file]" and the attachment is removed. In this case the filename is "pllset.spin2"
Also, I saved a draft but can't see where to find that again in the menus. Ah, it resumes where I left off so I presume this is the draft then?
could you try again ?
So here's some findings
Object ID is not supposed to be editable, yet server accepts modified value
OB
prefix don't matchSelective selectability of Spin 1 vs Spin 2 based on processor type is buggy (also, remember flexspin ain't not giving a Smile and can compile either base language for either processor)
"Object short description" is not actually used in the object list
The language dropdown in the object list does not actually match the languages you can tag an object with
Note that I'm uploading some spam to find these, will delete that after things are dealt with.
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Wait, I don't think there's a delete button...
Okay, yep, got it going.
Some observations:
Science has discovered the exact amount of The Bee Movie script starring Jerry Seinfeld that can fit in the object ID field you shouldn't be able to edit
Hmm, are the IDs resetting themselves or is someone fixing it on the backend? Also, the user tags appear to be gameable by putting to use everyone's favorite not-quite-whitespace, but I guess you'd have to weed out duplicate/bad tags there, anyways.
nah, I'm fixing the obxxx override and recording/cleaning the most wunderbar test silly's as they appear Sadly not automagic
speaking of, is it supposed to increment by one every time you reload the submission form? That won't take long to roll over 4 digits?
it can go higher than 4 digits, but yeah, it's supposed to do that.
cool contrast
Yeah, groovy! All the stock icons are pretty lame too. Good to flag all these things.
Apparently you can use uploaded files as images in the description, but it's like a weird hack. Also, some markup causes the edit to hang or something.
The word
undefined
appears below the logo when hovering certain linksIt would be helpful if there were version numbers or date uploaded info in the top page table... Hard to know if the uploaded version of an object is more-recent than what I've already downloaded. Example: The version of jm_fullduplexserial.spin2 on the OBEX is much older than what JonnyMac has posted in the forums. If I didn't know that I might have downloaded the older version, which is incompatible with current compilers (PNut, flexprop, etc.).
Also...
The unformatted "eye-view" of .spin2 files is not very helpful.
dgately
The markup previewer uses a different (simplified) parser to what is stored. Not ideal, just stock behaviour - Can be improved later. I think the full-screen feature hangs sometimes too- ideally needs some time to iron out. Best not to use that if you've other devilish plugins or JavaScript restrictions set/etc...
I added the width/height extension to the images (share the syntax later), but then stopped on that. Would be nice to allow drag/drop of images, that creates the correct markdown url (embedded url) and queues the image for upload/etc.. something slick and simple. For now, adding external image urls to description is allowed. not an ideal long-life plan,
@dgately Which OB number was that ? That's a great example of a file with inconsistent line endings- would like to fix that.
When looking at a particular users's objects:
Also, kindof important: The title field is too short. Many of the imported objects have titles longer than the current limit, such as "ISP PCA9685 16ch PWM Servo Driver", which with the current limit would have to be "ISP PCA9685 16ch PWM Serv". hmmm.
VonSzarvas,
It's nice to see that ObEx is back but when I look at Propeller 1 code I see that it comes mostly from 'Archiver'.
It would be nice to know who the original uploader was because people sometimes refer to a specific person such as Kye.
It does say that in the description I think. There should be means to assign archive objects to the actual new account, otherwise no one can update it.
Also:
Wuerfel_21, is this your full time job ?
nice catches!
Ltech
My full time jobs are procrastination and yelling at clouds.
I agree - certainly can change the author ID if/when the original authors register at the new site.
(Anyone that wants to share a comma delim'd list of OB numbers that they own, just PM to me for quick update. Otherwise I'll probably run a db script to catch obvious ones, as the dust settles. Also intend to work through the formatting of some imported posts & excepts, which could look better than the bulk import achieved.)
That's designed in, and in time can be publicly accessible. (ie. a list of download lists with datestamps, or a dropdown, whatever).
The file store site has zip files (by date) for each upload and/or subsequent edit/s.
Well that's nice.
But also:
- deleted pages are not actually deleted. Possibly intentional?
- you actually can not use uploaded images in the description, the link goes bad after a while.
Also, I'm trying to upload some real, non-jape objects but the title limit is stopping me.