[2024-03-18] GUI Team Demo Day

[farmaazon]

@farmaazon

• Drop-down filtering #9399 Clicking on Text widget opens drop-down (if any), and when the user starts typing anything, the filter is applied. Enter/clicking app background will accept the input as is, and clicking on drop down entry inserts it and finishes editing. Esc restore the previous state.
• Fix AST spacing #9366 with @kazcw and @Frizi: Fixed a nasty bug with AST adding space in places it should not (causing problems, when the space happens to be between on= and arg value).

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@Frizi

• fix text caret not showing for empty input #9336 - regression caused by previous iteration's work
• Working on Reconnect with engine with exponential backoff #8520: the partial work is already merged (the necessary refactoring of tests): cleanup GUI entrypoints and mocking #9403

@vitvakatu

• Code editor open-close improvements #9365
• Fix e2e tests on Mac #9401 - avoiding another set of transient issues
• Implement file browser widget #9302 - 🎉
• Use vue’s Transitions for animation of the placeholders #9335 - a small visual improvement, fixing Missing node collapse animation #9333
• Use labels from the engine if they are available #9290

code-editor-open-close.mp4

use.file.browser.mp4

collapsing-animation.mp4

[kazcw]

Major UI features (3+ points)

Scrollbars

Screen.Recording.2024-03-07.at.05.59.27.mov

Conditional ports

Screen.Recording.2024-03-14.at.15.12.10.mov

Selection layer

Screen.Recording.2024-03-08.at.14.47.30.mov

Pan to CB

Screen.Recording.2024-03-04.at.14.24.23.1.mov

Minor UI features (<3 points)

JSON viz Screen.Recording.2024-03-13.at.14.21.14.mov	Hover menu Screen.Recording.2024-03-11.at.17.33.56.mov
Remove-warnings Screen.Recording.2024-03-12.at.13.44.23.mov	Zoom steps Screen.Recording.2024-03-07.at.13.09.54.mov

Other

• Autoscope syntax #9372
• Editing node maintains record-mode state
• Component comments small fixes #9261
• Dropdown width is truncated. #9379
• Ast.Vector #9328 support for upcoming features...

[mwu-tow]

Minor improvements:

• Allow requesting a clean build through the web dispatch [CI] Checkbox for requesting a clean build when manually dispatching a workflow #9270
• Keep directory for the uploaded playwright reports [CI] Upload the directory as an artifact, not just its content #9323

Engine-specific:

• [CI] Engine CI Rework, Part 1 #9295
  • Split the Engine CI job into a few smaller ones.
  • Gives significant start-to-end time reduction.
• [in progress] Removing discrepencies between macOS and non-macOS-intended CI checks [CI] Fix the runner's memory check #9309

Old GUI removal followup — removing more of the old code and related updates to the build script.

• Removed enso-types and a some unused dependencies. #9342
• Remove ensogl-pack #9407
• Build Script Post-Gui1 Cleanup #9376

Ongoing monitoring of the CI failures and reporting issues.

• Still new random test regressions keep popping up.
• Runner's load issues.

[hubertp]

Relevant backend work:

• Pending: Instrumentation, visualization and (autoscoped) constructors Instrumentation, visualization and autoscoped constructors #9452
• Pending: Speedup visualization and widget responses Speedup visualization and widget responses #9371
• Local project manager work Project manager API for basic file system operations #9245
• Pending: Table.join - aka access arguments when widgets annotations are computed
• Discussed: y.js server in the JVM
• Pending: Fixing reexported symbols: Put all reexports of given entry in Suggestion Database #9454
• Pending: Make FQN and imports consistent Make FQN and imports consistent #9367