EgonTE 1.13.5 - Services n' tools 📶

clipboard (new standalone file)

Added

• Pinned items section
  • Dedicated “Pins” area rendered above history, not subject to capacity limits.
  • Pin/Unpin action via toolbar, context menu, and Ctrl+P shortcut.
  • “Clear Pins” action (button, context menu, and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace).
• Multi-select operations
  • Copy, Paste, Delete, Move Up/Down all support multiple selections.
  • Aggregated Copy/Paste behavior with newline-joined payloads.
• Drag-and-drop reordering
  • Reorder items by dragging within the same section (Pins or Items).
  • Disabled while a filter is active to avoid index confusion.
• System clipboard watcher
  • Lightweight polling that auto-adds new clipboard text to history while the popup is open.
  • Pause watcher toggle to temporarily stop ingesting new items.
• Live-refresh hook
  • app._clipboard_apply_filter is set while the popup is open and cleared on close, allowing external updates (e.g., from editor copy/cut) to refresh the UI instantly.
• Platform-friendly context menu
  • Right-click, middle-click, and Ctrl+Click (macOS) all open the context menu.
• UI details and controls
  • Selection counter and visible counts (Pins/Items).
  • “Auto-close on paste” option for fast workflows.

Changed/Improved

• Standalone architecture
  • Decoupled from the main window into a dedicated popup, created via your popup builders when available, or via a Toplevel fallback.
  • Transparently adopts global window transparency and other common behaviors.
• Robust indexing
  • View-to-model index mapping for all actions, resilient to duplicate items and active filters.
• History semantics
  • Move-to-front with deduplication for both pinned and unpinned items.
  • Capacity enforcement applies only to unpinned history.
• Filtering
  • Case-insensitive, instant filter across both sections.
  • Safe drag/reorder behavior by disabling reordering under filter conditions.
• UX polish
  • Clear item rendering with truncation for long entries (models store full text).
  • Cross-platform context triggers and consistent key bindings.
  • Status labels update on selection and drag operations for better feedback.
• Integration hygiene
  • Live-refresh hook and watcher lifecycle are cleaned up on window close.
  • Works with app-level builders, styles, and optional alpha without extra configuration.

Fixed

• Duplicate-handling pitfalls
  • Operations no longer rely on raw value matching that could target the wrong duplicate; all actions use exact index mapping.
• Filter-induced reorder bugs
  • Reordering is blocked while filtered to avoid inserting blocks at unexpected positions.
• Clipboard watcher spam
  • Last-seen guard plus dedup ensures new clipboard content doesn’t create redundant entries.
• Context menu discoverability on macOS
  • Ctrl+Click and middle-click support ensures the menu is accessible across devices and trackpads.
• UI update race conditions
  • All UI refreshes are scheduled on the Tk event loop; the live hook and watcher tear down cleanly on close.

Weather tool (new standalone file)

Added

• Standalone weather module and popup window with clear responsibilities and imports/constants located at the top of the file.
• City suggestions dropdown with accent- and case-insensitive matching and deduplicated results.
• Recent/Recommended cities panel with capacity control and stable deduplication across accents and casing.
• Notebook with tabs for Now, Hourly, Daily, and Textual summary, including a dedicated ‘Last city’ view to recall the previous city’s snapshot and quick-restore.
• Responsive Matplotlib charts for hourly and daily forecasts with automatic resize handling and minimum readable sizes for tabs.
• Textual forecast rendering fallback when plotting backends are unavailable.
• Icon rendering via OpenWeather icon codes using PIL (kept as soft-dependency with safe fallbacks).
• Asynchronous fetch pipeline with background thread, UI-safe scheduling, and graceful error dialogs.
• Multi-provider data sources: primary OpenWeather (when API key is available) and automatic fallback to wttr.in; synthetic forecast generation if needed.
• Numeric model normalized to metric units internally with local unit toggling (C/F and m/s vs mph) without re-fetching.
• Copy action for the current summary with optional paste-to-editor integration.
• Utility helpers: city normalization, robust key generation for dedupe, time formatting with timezone offsets (when provided), safe scheduling, and plotting helpers.

Changed/Improved

• Split and refactored the previous monolithic weather logic from the main app into a dedicated drop-in module with snake_case naming and descriptive identifiers.
• All widgets are now stored in variables, ensuring reliable later access for updates, theming, and event handling.
• Suggestions and recents logic rewritten to be accent-insensitive, case-insensitive, and stable against duplicates; history capping is enforced.
• Unified conversion flow: fetches once in metric, then converts to the selected UI units instantly (no extra network calls on unit toggle).
• Forecast normalization strategy to a common, predictable structure; charts and text previews consume the same normalized format.
• Chart rendering is now responsive with debounced resize and minimum size enforcement for reliable readability.
• Error handling hardened across network, image, and plotting code paths with user-friendly messages; fallbacks prefer preserving UI continuity.
• Snapshotting of the previous city for the ‘Last city’ tab, including summary text and a small chart preview (when available).
• Improved code organization: constants, helpers, providers, numeric model, UI, and rendering are separated into sections to aid maintainability and testing.

Fixed

• Duplicate entries in recent and suggested cities caused by inconsistent casing/accents.
• Unit-toggle inconsistencies that previously required another fetch or lost precision across conversions.
• Occasional crashes occurred when plotting widgets were resized rapidly or when plotting backends were missing.
• Intermittent icon load issues due to image resource handling; now preloads and retains references safely.
• Edge cases where forecasts were missing or partial; fallback generation ensures charts and text remain populated.
• Suggestions panel lingering open with no results; it now hides predictably on empty or unmatched queries.
• Potential UI freezes from synchronous network calls; replaced with threaded fetch and safe UI updates.

Knowledge tool - Wiki and Dictionary (new standalone file)

Added

• Dedicated Knowledge popup window with tabbed UI:
  • Search tab for query and options
  • Results tab for article/definition content and actions
  • Images tab (Wiki only) with lazy, incremental loading
• Provider toggle and bridging:
  • Dictionary and Wikipedia providers with one-click bridge actions (Dict → Wiki summary, Wiki → Dict)
  • Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+1..4 for Wiki modes, Ctrl+Shift+D/W for bridging, Ctrl+./Ctrl+, for image nav
• Non-blocking networking:
  • Background threads for searches and image downloads
  • Run-id tracking to safely discard stale/out-of-order responses
• Debounced auto-search:
  • Configurable auto-search with minimum character threshold and provider-aware safeguards (never auto in images mode)
• Images pipeline:
  • URL filtering (safe scheme/hosts, raster-only, drop SVG, de-duplication)
  • Parallel downloads with a configurable worker pool
  • Two-stage sizing (coarse clamp on fetch + precise fit to container at paint time)
  • First-ready rendering with responsive navigation controls
  • Image source actions (copy/open URL)
• Robust output actions:
  • Paste to editor (preserving cursor location)
  • Copy all / copy selection
  • Open article in browser / copy article URL (Wiki)
• Status and metrics:
  • Status bar for long-running tasks
  • Result stats (length, non-space chars, lines, paragraphs, sentences)
• Soft preference persistence:
  • Auto-search, auto-pick (Wiki), auto-bridge (Dict), max images per session
• UX polish:
  • Mode feedback, clean whitespace normalization for results
  • Safe URL validation
  • Pre-filling search from editor selection when available

Changed/Improved

• Extracted from the main window into a self-contained, reusable popup module:
  • Cleaner separation of concerns; no UI blocking; better error isolation
• Resilient UI composition:
  • Consistent notebook layout; stable min-sizes per provider; flexible grid/pack usage
  • Better centering and size-change behavior (keeps window centered on resize)
• Safer state transitions:
  • Explicit run lifecycle: start-run, busy state, completion with ready state
  • Always updates UI on the main thread (using after callbacks)
• Wikipedia modes:
  • Summary, Related, Content, Images each with tailored output and actions
  • Auto-pick for Related mode (optional) and disambiguation guidance with tips
• Dictionary mode:
  • Enriched output with grouped definitions; optional synonyms/antonyms
  • Auto-bridge to Wikipedia when no definitions found (optional)
• Images handling:
  • First-success flow automatically brings up the Images tab; avoids blank tab if nothing loads
  • Accurate navigation info (index and original image size when known)
  • Container-aware fitting reduces flicker/overflow and saves memory
• Usability:
  • Debounce tuned to reduce premature network calls while typing
  • Safer, normalized search terms (trimmed, squashed whitespace, length-limited)
  • Keyboard-first usage (Enter to search; shortcuts for modes and nav)
  • Copy/paste integration and clear enabled/disabled button states

Fixed

• Eliminated UI freezes and race conditions by removing blocking calls from the main thread
• Prevented stale result overwrites via run-id guard (e.g., typing fast or switching modes mid-search)
• Resolved images tab edge cases:
  • No auto-switch when no images were found
  • Avoids premature tab switching before the first image is actually ready
  • Properly clamps and converts images to renderable formats (P/RGBA) with graceful fallbacks
• Hardened error handling:
  • Disambiguation errors present choices with tips
  • Network/timeout failures show clear, non-fatal messages and restore ready state
• URL safety checks:
  • Only opens valid, safe http(s) URLs; stricter checks for Wiki actions
• Whitespace and content normalization:
  • Tidier output (no duplicate blank lines, trailing spaces, or platform-specific line issues)
• Consistent state reset:
  • Clears previous results, resets button states, and updates status correctly when re-running searches or changing modes.

EgonTE

• Added forwarders to the new standalone tools’ files and replaced the old methods with them.
• Improved method call for the “load_links” method, causing less lag.
• Added methods that ensure the services’ availability and connect them to the methods they are part of.
• Fixed information root’s text-box being blank when trying to view patch notes in “.txt” file format.
• Fixed class’ call references names in various methods.
• Fixed text-twisters menu’s GUI representation of available shortcuts.
• Fixed variable’s type assignment in the status-bar management method.
• Improved the “saved_settings” method file’s saving process.
• Improved code writing quality for various methods.
• Improved “emoji_detection” conditioning.

Services (new):

ThemeService

• Smarter colors: Automatically picks a readable text color against your chosen background.
• Live preview: Try color changes safely and cancel if you don’t like them.
• Presets: Save your favorite theme setups, load them later, or delete them.
• Full app coverage: Applies your palette to editor, menus, toolbars, popups (search, options, etc.) consistently.
• Works with Night Mode: Warns you before changing colors while night mode is active (optional).

SearchService

• Regex searches: Turn on regex to search by patterns (e.g., words, numbers, formats).
• Search within selection: Limit find/replace to just the highlighted text.
• Easy navigation: Jump to next/previous result with clear highlighting of the current match.
• Replace options: Replace one, replace all, or replace only the current match.
• Counts: Quickly see how many matches were found.

FileService

• Reliable open/save: Uses UTF‑8, with fallback for older encodings, and protects against accidental data loss.
• Open last file: Respects your “open last file” setting and restores state safely.
• HTML polish: Automatically prettifies HTML files when opened (when available).
• Print support: One-click print on Windows; opens the file on other systems to print from there.
• Extras:
  • New File creates a clean workspace.
  • The Merge files appends multiple files into the editor.
  • Delete file asks for confirmation and clears the state properly.
  • File info shows size, type, and timestamps in a simple summary.

ui builders:

Added

• Popup builder features
  • Title derivation from the function name with app title prefix.
  • Optional singleton windows per tool; registry-backed.
  • Modal/topmost flags, geometry, resizable hints, app icon, transparency.
  • Theming hook integration (make_tm) and centered placement.
• Tooltip system
  • One-time backend selection (tktooltip preferred, Tix fallback).
  • Shared Tix Balloon instance with configurable delay.
  • Version-tolerant attachment for tktooltip; graceful no-op if none available.
• Rich-textbox factory
  • Scrollable text container with HTML rendering when available; safe fallback to Text.
  • Flexible placement (pack/grid), size hints, app-relief/cursor defaults.
• Window management
  • Open-windows controller: duplicate suppression with bring-to-front, stale-window pruning, optional warning on excessive windows.

Changed / Improved

• Owner resolution is robust (root/master/_root/app/default-root) without low-level tk access.
• Key binding system
  • Canonicalizes event patterns (e.g., Control-b -> Control-Key-b).
  • Guarantees bracketed sequences; uses add='+' to preserve existing bindings.
  • Group-based binds with pattern lists and smart fallbacks; prefers binding to the main editor widget.
  • Restores bindings_dict to the expected shape; honors ‘autol’ variable semantics.
  • Adds helpful “initial” one-off bindings when not present (e.g., F5, Alt+F4, Ctrl+Delete, Ctrl+D).
  • Binds editor ‘<>’ to status handler when present.
• Safer UI guards around transient, grab_set, iconphoto, attributes, focus, and geometry.

Fixed

• Duplicate popups and stale registry entries by tracking and pruning open windows reliably.
• Event binding pitfalls: missing brackets, clobbered handlers, and inconsistent normalization.
• Tooltip double-binding and backend collisions (single backend per session).
• Close/cleanup handling to remove entries from app lists and builder registry.
• Owner resolution failures when parent/root are absent (clear error only as last resort).