Should I use workflow in my module development? I feel like it complicates things and make the development itself prone to errors. Does the benefit really outweigh the hassle I need to go through to implement workflow? Instead of just using actions and buttons?
As long as I know, workflows are going to disappear in following versions of Odoo, instead of them there are going to be only buttons calling methods which will modify the status of the object.
I have just modified a workflow in a custom module. This module was made to work only in version 8, and I have overwritten the workflow. If I wanted the module to be moved to version 9 and more, may be I would have used only buttons and methods as you have written.
I guess you can do it in both ways, depending on whether you are in a hurry or not.
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I'm using Visual Studio Code to develop Vue.js 3 apps. In my early learning on vuemastery.com it was instructed to use Vetur, but I'm finding that Vetur is too much of a hassle to get it working, and it's consuming a lot of time. The Vetur documentation is just "tossed salad" and doesn't target specific issues; it needs a lot of editing, too. Can I get by without Vetur?
Vetur can't find tsconfig etc.
Cannot find module '../assets/ etc.
In terms of necessity, nothing obliges you to use it it just helps with for example definition jumping and completion in some cases.
As stated in some comments, its main purpose it to ease development and if doesn't do that for you no need to have it. I would still recommend setting some time aside so you can figure it out and try and having it running :D
What is the most elegant way to get a riot based UI today?
i'd love the following points to be addressed:
A proper code-mapping for easy debugging
A good way to bundle the application (so far i used Webpack and JSPM)
It would be lovely if it would work elegantly with Typescript.
Is it best to use Tag files, or straight JS? If the later, would it be better to use a class that inherit from riot's tag class? If so, can i place the template code in a different file?
Future compatibility: i saw that there's going to be a change (that "export default" thing) - how would you recommend to write the code for the smoothest migration path?
If you have more items for consideration - please add them....
Thanks for asking these questions. I have tried to answer to all your questions hoping they could be useful also to other Riot.js users
A proper code-mapping for easy debugging
the riot compiler generates simply javascript code without modifying too much the structure of your original source code. Any modern browser should be able to provide with debugger breakpoints and console calls all the debugging tools you need. Check for example the stack trace of this error you don't need much more to figure out where it's coming from.
A good way to bundle the application (so far i used Webpack and JSPM)
In this repo we provide 3 different javascript bundle examples: rollup, webpack, riot-compiler. I personally prefer rollup but you can (and should) use whatever works best for you and your team.
It would be lovely if it would work elegantly with Typescript.
The riot public methods are already available as Typescript interfaces:
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/#types/riot
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/#types/riot-route
I am not a typescript user and that's why I will not invest time in making examples in a technology I don't use but PR are welcome
Is it best to use Tag files, or straight JS? If the later, would it be better to use a class that inherit from riot's tag class? If so, can i place the template code in a different file?
I recommend you to just use Tag files because riot was designed as component library and it embraces completely the philosophy of components composition vs class inheritance. If you have code you share across several components you can either use mixins or import it with your bundler directly in your tags see for example
Future compatibility: i saw that there's going to be a change (that "export default" thing) - how would you recommend to write the code for the smoothest migration path?
Riot 3 will be not compatible with Riot 4. (that will be a full rewrite) I can't recommend any best practice to make your code portable to Riot 4. Remember that Riot 3 will be still supported and your code will run even on IE9 for the next 10 years. Once riot 4 will be released and the API will be stable I can provide more hints about a migration path.
I am in need of a solution, and I am not quite sure I have enough knowledge to properly ask the question, so please bear with me. I am working with a CAD application with it's own API which supports the .NET Framework 4.5. I wanted to develop some customized functionality for the application using VB.NET, but because of work restrictions I am not allowed to install custom programs or run custom executables. I am however allowed to utilize the CAD applications scripting environment (which also supports the .NET Framework). I am limited in what I can achieve with scripting because as far I know I can't listen for an event in a script, because the scripts run time ends so quickly. Is there a way to extend the run time of a script until certain events occur? If anybody is curious, the CAD application I am using is called Siemens NX. Any Ideas?
I do not know how far this answer help you.
When you do not have events to listen, try to depend on return variables and using assert statements (or at least if statements).
I mean, if something happens then only go to next, which is a very traditional way.
Also, if you want to prolong the run time of script you can use some thing like "sleep" or "delay" statements (may be milli seconds as input).
I mean if some thing is happening (control by a variable), "sleep" till that action is complete.
Or check for the action complete status in a infinite while loop and exit, when it is done.
In simple terms, traditional way of doing things helps in your situation.
I've started playing around with Appcelerator Hyperloop. While it seems great to access native APIs from JS from day zero, it does raise a few questions about architecture of the platform and the performance.
Currently (AFAIK) a Titanium app has a main UI thread (that runs the native UI controllers) and a JS thread (that runs the JS logic). Each call from JS to Native is passed though the "Bridge" (which is the expansive operation in an app).
Also, Titanium API doesn't cover all the native API and abstracts as much as it can. But if new APIs are introduced it could take time for Appcelerator to implement those into the platform.
One of my favorite things about Titanium is the ability to extend it (using objective-c for iOS and java for Android) - allowing to use native APIs that are not covered by Titanium, and also developing a really native performance controls in case we need to do anything that's too "heavy" for JS. And, as mentioned it's developed 100% native for each platform.
Now that Appcelerator introduced Hyperloop I've done a simple test app and saw that Hyperloop is not translated into native code but just to normal JS code:
var UILabel = require('hyperloop/uikit/uilabel');
var label = new UILabel();
label.text = "HELLO WORLD!";
$.index.add(label);
And another thing about it is that you have to run on the main thread.
So we basically have a few things come to mind here as far as Hyperloop architecture goes:
We still have a bridge? if Hyperloop is JS that calls "special" Hyperloop require then we still have a bridge, that now not only acts as a bridge but also needs to do some sort of reflection (which is also an expansive operation)?
Until now JS ran in it's own thread - so now running in a single main thread seems to be a potential source to more UI blocking operation.
The old-fashioned modules were truly native (not including the bridge call) - so how do Hyperloop-enabled apps compare with those?
There isn't much documentation or articles about Hyperloop that explain the inner working yet - so if anyone has any answers have been trying apps with it could be very helpful.
Answering your questions straight-forward:
There are no Kroll-Proxies involved anymore, since actual classes are being generated on runtime. This is done by using the hyperloop-metabase that does reflection (as you already said) to build an AST that grabs the actual signatures, types, classes, methods, properties, etc.
We did not see any performance-issues with running on the main-thread for now. If you do so, please file a JIRA-ticket so we can investigate the use-case.
The old-modules were "less native" then now, simply because they were all wrapped by the Kroll-proxy (by extending every view from TiUIView and every proxy from TiProxy / TiViewProxy. Hyperloop does not work with those, making the module-development much more faster by also allowing the developer to test his/her process live in their app without the need of packaging and referencing the module manually. Hyperloop modules are nothing else then CommonJS modules that are already used frequently across Alloy and other Ti-components.
I hope that gives you a quick overview on how Hyperloop works. If you have further questions, let us know!
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(As a detailed answer to the above comment)
So let's say you have a tableview in iOS. The native class is UITableView and the Titanium-API is Ti.UI.TableView / Ti.UI.ListView.
While the ListView already provides a huge performance-boost compared to the TableView by abstracting the Child-API usage to templates, those child-API's (Ti.UI.Label, Ti.UI.ImageView, ...) are still custom classes that are wrapped and provide custom logic (!) e.g. keeping track of it's parent-references, internal data-structures and locks to jump between the threads.
If you now check the Hyperloop example of a native UITableView, you access the native API's directly, so no proxy behind it needs to manage sections, templates, items etc. Of course we deliver that API through a kroll proxy in order to display it in Titanium, but you don't "jump between the bridge" with every call you make from the SDK.
The easiest way to see that is to actually run some bigger example like the tableview, collectionview and view-animation. If you do a fast scroll through these, you already feel the performance boost compared to "classic" Titanium API's, simply because the only communication between your proxy and (like a Ti.UI.Window you want to add it to) is the .add() to receive the native API of the type HyperloopClass.
Finally, of course it still makes sense to use Ti.UI.ListView for example, because it comes with the builtin utilities that Titanium devs love (events, easy configuration and layout-handling). But thats also where the benefit of Hyperloop comes along, by allowing the developer to access those API's him-/herself.
I hope that helps a bit more to understand it.
I'm trying to create a setup project and I can't believe how painful it could be. Non of the tools that I've tried to use, haven't satisfy me.
How come? Well, let's see:
First and easiest option: Setup project built in Visual Studio. Easy and fast. you can easily implement custom actions, even if you're code was written in c# or vb.net. Exactly what I wanted. But this approach has some drawbacks and the major one is unbelievably painful way to implement custom dialogs. For example if I need to ask for DB credentials, authorize the user and proceed with the rest of installation. But no. There is no way to build custom setup dialog in VS. Actually there is a way, but it's not an easy one. I mean what, are you kidding me? I have to spent a day to create a couple of simple dialogs?
Second option: Use some kind of a tool. Like InstallShield. You have to pay for it, yes, fortunately it's damn cheap. Only $5500. Not a big deal, right? Well maybe, but for me it's like "dude, forget about it"
Third option: Use WIX Nice, has many options. Not so easy to use like the one built-in VS but has many much better features. The only problem - I spend a few hours trying to convince that thing to run my code written in c#. I failed. Nothing helped and I give up.
Now. Please, please my fellow experts, all knowing developers. Help me. What should I do? What's the best way to solve my problem (believe me my boss will kill me, he likes to achieve results over dead bodies of his employees).
Tell me is there any better way to edit .wid files. Using Orca tool, isn't an easy solution.
Or show me a real example of setup project built with WIX which can run managed c# code.
Thank you!
I implemented a custom dialog by simply displaying a form in my custom action. This is a straightforward thing to do.
I don't suggest using either "Setup Projects" ( aka Visual Studio Deployment Projects ) or Managed Custom Actions ( in your context you are referring to InstalUtil custom actions ).
For managed custom actions I use Windows Installer XML - DTF ( Deployment Tools Framework ). This builds and packages your CA to look and feel to MSI like a C++ CA which means you can then consume it using InstallShield, WiX, Wise and so on.
I also don't suggest using CA's as fake dialogs. If you want a fancier UI write an external UI handler ( not a simple task ). I suspect your real problem though is that VDRPOJ doesn't expose this very well, that WiX is lot's of writing in XML. InstallShield gives you a drag drop IDE for working on custom dialogs. But then that would be one of the many reasons it isn't free.