Control Space 1.0 Beta 14 and 14.1

Improvements with focus, cancelling, UI options, keyboard shortcuts and additional tools.

Version 1.0.14.1 committed on Sep 28 2021

Release notes

Focus

Tabs

• Focus is now retained after dragging tabs to other windows
• Focus is now retained after closing tabs or saved tabs

Modals

• Save dialog now correctly tabs to active item
• Modals and context menus now return focus to app after closing
• Resource panel now stays open when showing modals

Cancelling

• Modals and optional messageboxes (confirm, prompt) are now cancellable via esc or click off
• Mandatory messageboxes (alert, success) are not cancelable and prevent esc and click off
• Options Page is now cancelable via esc
• Global cancelling / closing order (via esc) now works as expected:
  • close modals
  • clear search
  • clear clipboard
  • clear selection
  • focus search
  • hide resources
  • hide Control Space

Tools

• Added slight delay to closing sidebars when rolling off toolbar buttons
• Tools panel now closes after using a tool

Hotkeys

Search

• Enter now picks the best tab in this order: Workspace > Resources > Google Search
• Cmd+Enter will now instantly open a Google search

Selection

• "Select All" is now "Select all / none" (and "Select None" has been removed)

Choose Folder dialog

• Hotkey Cmd+R has been added to "Rename / Edit Tabs"
• Hotkey Cmd+Enter has been added to "Save and Close"

Saved Tabs

• Added hotkeys for all context menu commands
• Added hotkey Cmd+A to "Select all / none"
• Added hotkey Cmd+N and context entry to add new workspaces and folders

Workspace

• Added "Nudge" shortcut (Alt+Arrows) for tabs and windows

Help

• Added all keyboard and mouse shortcuts
• Added keyboard shortcuts for Help and Shortcuts pages
• Added Cmd+Click action to jump directly to shortcuts
• Added help shortcuts tip to help toggle component
• The panel now remembers pages / sections between opens
• The panel is now lockable

Workspace

Icons

• Added item-specific, 2-color icons throughout the UI
• Rearranged context menu item order to go: save > tools > modify > close

Moving items

• Fixed moving tab selections
• Tabs can now be nudged using Alt+Arrows
• Windows can now be nudged using Shift+Alt+Left/Right

Misc

• Better "New Tab" functionality when using keyboard shortcut
• Courtesy notification when dragging undraggable items

Tools

• Added "Find similar" shortcut (Cmd+F)
• Added "Rename tab" shortcut (Cmd+R)
• Added "Undo close" shortcut (Cmd+Z)
• Added "Arrange windows" tool

Website tracking

• Open tabs display URLs stripped of tracking parameters
• When sharing or saving, URLs tracking parameters are stripped for good

Sleep

• On first sleep, the application shows a note about waking tabs before uninstalling
• Added global "Sleep unused tabs" tool
• Added global "Wake tabs slowly" tool

Choose Folder

• "Edit Tabs" link has been changed to an inline button
• "Rename" modals now show "Edit" buttons and spawn "Edit details" modals

Locating Items

• The action "Reveal" has been renamed to "Locate"
• If a Tab or Window isn't already saved, the notification shows "save" and "filter" options
  • Clicking "save" opens the Save dialog
  • Clicking "filter" filters Saved Tabs to the same domain (i.e. google.com)

Fixes

• Added "Existing folder" warning when window name is the same as existing folder
• "Select All" toggle now respects ui.highlight
• The select "select tabs" action now longer shows when saving new folders
• Fixed a bug where detaching a single tab would fail
• Fixed moving tab to same window
• Fixed flickering in the UI when multiple tabs are detached
• Fixed contrast of checkbox icon in context menus
• Fixed shortcuts panel not showing full-height when interface is zoomed
• Drag and drop bug where tabs dragged to an empty area can't be re-dragged

Data

Sharing tabs

• Overhauled sharing (removed close options, added formatting options)
• Formatting options are now URLs, Text, Markdown, Paragraphs, Bullets and JSON
• JSON format enables full import and export of any data structure
• Sharing slept tabs now shares the unslept URLs

Importing

• When pasting a single URL, it is sanitised and used as filter
• When pasting multiple URLs, they are opened in a new window
• When importing text, an attempt is made to parse the window title from the text
• When importing files, the window title is taken from the file name
• When importing JSON the user is taken straight to the save dialog

Development

• Added "Copy title data" development tool
• Added "Reload extension" functionality (hotkey Shift+Cmd+R)

UI

Added

• Added new UiTabs component
• UiMessagebox now splits text with newlines in to paragraphs
• UiInput now has a secondary "action" button
• UiDialog is now lockable
• UiModal now picks up on alternative submit actions
• UiForm now emits submit event and passes the keyboard event, so we can test for modifier keys
• UiIcon now has [data-name] hooks
• UiIcon color defaults to auto which respects 2+ color icons
• UiTabs now handles content via default slot

Changed

• Modals are now cancellable by default
• Refactored UiLinks to use the same API as UiMenu
• Moved panel state to Panel subclass
• UiLinks now emits action and done events
• UiNotifications was refactored:
  • signature is now only object or title, text, icon / type
  • actions, icon, name and id are now top-level properties
  • removed name property in favour of id
  • durations are now in seconds

Fixed

• UiColumns now won't focus disabled columns
• Fixed missing validation check in UiMessagebox prompt

System

Hotkeys

• Wrote new hotkey handling system
• Added mac:|win: preset to filter by platform
• Improved getShortcutText() to handle platform and multiple shortcuts
• Added getMouseText() to handle mouse shortcuts
• Added more data-* hooks on HTML
• Added "Export Hotkeys" tool
• Modals now block document-level hotkeys
• Added all mouse and keyboard shortcut configurations
• Updated handleEvent() algorithm to prevent browser defaults in inputs if a hotkey would have handled it
• Added "global" hotkey *

Architecture

• Refactored App to @/modules/app
• Refactored core to be more lightweight
• Updated app-wide aliased paths
• Simplified ContentContext and all module install functions
• Tidied up main content/* entry points
• Separated application and vendor style injection

Navigator

• Enable Navigator focus transitions to work from unmanaged elements
• Simplified Navigator setup and mounting
• Added refocus functionality

Settings

• Added deep watch
• Added syncSettings() helper to quickly bind arbitrary sub-properties

Utils

• Add isMounted() DOM helper

Data

• Added new universal Data Transfer (DTO) format

Packages

• Added Refocus package
• Added arrows filter to Hotkeys package
• Changed Setting to store as settings/<name>

Assets

• Added Outliner service

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