One thing I find lacking in the Ubiquity Command Editor is that in
order to try out a function I've coded I can't just execute it
directly. Let's say I've programmed a function called adder, like
this:
function adder(x, y) {
return x + y;
}
As far as I know, there's no direct way to test whether the function
works as intended. So I made this Ubiquity command that I named
'evaly' that eval()s the parameter to the 'evaly' command and prints
it result to the output pane.
So now I can fire up Ubiquity and write:
evaly adder(10, 20) do
which outputs:
The output of your function is: '30'
(The 'do' in the end is there so that the command doesn't try to eval
() when I'm typing the command.)
Now, it's pretty limited and certainly has bugs, but I found it
pleasant that it was this easy to make this sort of command that I
find useful in my own development.
Here's the command (just a ten minute sketch, but there you go):
CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
name: "evaly",
description: "evaly: evaluates arbitrary text",
help: "eval()s first parameter if last parameter is 'do'",
takes: {"input": noun_arb_text},
preview: function( pblock, input ) {
var args = input.text.split(" ");
if (args[args.length-1] == 'do') {
var input_str = "";
for (i = 0; i < args.length-1; i++) {
input_str += args[i];
}
var s = "var x = " + input_str + ";";
eval(s);
pblock.innerHTML = "Output of your command: '" + x + "'";
}
},
execute: function(input) { }
});
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