I have just created the tips branch <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/tree/tips>. This will contain work related to #597: Show tips when Leo starts up. <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/597>
This Engineering Notebook post documents implementation details and work to do. It will be pre-writing for documentation. The tips branch defines a new setting in leoSettings.leo: @bool show-tips = True. When True, Leo will show "Leo Tips" dialog on startup. The present code is rudimentary, but illustrates a number of subtle issues. Here is the present tips dialog: If the user unchecks the "Show tips on startup", Leo will open myLeoSettings.leo, choosing or creating the @bool show-tips node. There are a few things to say about this: 1. The code should open the @bool show-tips node in the present file, if it exists, rather than myLeoSettings.leo. 2. The present code finds only @bool show-tips, not alternatives like @bool show_tips or @bool showtips. 3. The code should be generalized as above and be made a tool, accessible via the c.config and (maybe) the g.app.config classes. A number of other improvements must be made before this feature becomes usable: 4. Real tips should be shown. 5. There must be support for Leo's stylesheets, and a standard dialog size should be used. All comments welcome. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
