[2024-03-04] GUI Team Demo Day

[farmaazon]

We have one PR particularly interesting (still in progress):

[MichaelMauderer]

• Add docs to highlight order of processing dirty nodes. #9141 ("fixes" Auto layout doesn't take the connections into account when placing nodes #8963 )
• Dropdown widget improvements. #9186

Peek.2024-03-01.16-06.webm

• Remove gui1 codebase #9242

[farmaazon]

I was working mostly fixing regressions, adding more tests and fixing existing one (or the bugs they sometimes catch)

• Fix interfering click handlers #9127 - an interesting case of transient test failure which pointed to existing issues in our event handling.
• Fix escaping \ #9155 - it was a problem when handling with Windows paths.
• Proper fix for editing node #9153 - a fix for our shortcut system, which didn't handle click or pointerup events.
• Fix area select regression #9197 - also includes tests for selection.
• Attached workflow breaks in GUI2 #9198 - A fix for large, unstable project of @jdunkerley.
• E2E test fixing and bring back reports #9238 - Some further test fixes, and add HTML reports with trace to make debugging transient failures easier.

In the meantime, slowly progressed with Drop-down filtering.

[vitvakatu]

These weeks I was mostly progressing with two issues:

• Imports conflict resolution #9093
• Small visualization fixes #9130

visualization.shortctus.mp4

Also I few minor things were finished just before the demo:

• Add imports on editing nodes #9253
• Add delete node icon to circular menu #9264

delete.node.icon.mp4

[kazcw]

UI Feature	Before	After
Top bar (#8672, #8673)
Self-argument arrows (#9064)
Comments (#9162)	Screen.Recording.2024-02-29.at.18.41.39.mov
Hide placeholders (#9208)	Screen.Recording.2024-03-01.at.10.01.11.mov
Add-node menu button (#9219)	Screen.Recording.2024-03-01.at.14.40.48.mov
Viz types in CB (#8570)	viz-previews.1.mov

Enso Language Advancement	PR
Refine else-block definition	#8671

API design	Tracker
Proposed new widget-selection design	📐 #9145

🎉 Feature / ✅ bugfix / 📋 chore	PR
Show checkbox names (#9002)	🎉 #9146
Display matched aliases (Pt.1 of #9107)	🎉 #9148
Closing dropdowns (#7562, #7477)	🎉 #9206
Fix flickering when resizing visualization (#9136)	✅ #9147
Y.Js immutable data type safety	✅ #9217
Fix CB reloading	✅ #9192
Quickfix for node edits	✅ #9144
Code Editor property tests	📋 #9131

[mwu-tow]

• Fixed notarization following the GraalVM bump.
• Updated the release template to advertise the new IDE.
• Started work on refactoring the Engine CI. Still in progresss.
  • Measuring current CI times.
  • Splitting the Engine CI into a few smaller jobs to start with.

[Frizi]

• Implemented Render quote characters outside of the text pills #9161, fixed text escape/unescape to be fully inline with current parser implementation. Implemented automatic quote style change when necessary.

• Improved behavior of "Compiler error" popups. Now only one can be shown at a time, and it automatically closes once the code runs successfuly.
• Improved performance of various edit scenarios when multiple nodes were affected, mostly relevant for group moving. All edits are batched both on Vue computed and Yjs transaction level.

move-batch.mp4

• Fixed interactions of node widths and visualizations. No more random weird node resizes or temporarily incorrect widths.
• Updated Vue to new version 3.4.*, which improved performance and introduced a bunch of new useful features (e.g. defineModel).

[JaroslavTulach]

• Project manager API for basic file system operations #9245
  • need to be used by dashboard
• Autoscoped constructors #9190
  • Use autoscoping when constructing tag values of suggestion arguments #9259

[farmaazon]

Next iteration plan highlights:

• Merge hiding placeholders and "add component" button under node.
• Finish Engine reconnection and drop-down filtering
• Finish GUI1 removal
• Add API for visualizations allowing adding nodes from them.
• File Browser widget - a simple one, using system File Browser