Project-Specific Action Bar

[JoelProminic]

I talked with @JustinProminic about adding a second row to the Workspace sidebar that shows the name of the currently selected project and some common actions for the project:

The buttons would be configured based on the project type, with an option to override the actions using a configuration file for the project. The buttons should be icons with tooltips, to save space. We could allow arbitrary actions, or focus on common actions like:

• Build - compilation
• Launch - Build & Run, or other actions focused on loading a running instance of the project.

The configuration file would be something like moonshine-actions.xml. We could use different formats (JSON, YML, etc. if desired), but I chose XML here to match moonshine-dependencies.xml.

We discussed using a combobox instead of the selected project, but we want to stick with the simple solution for now. We could revisit this later:

• Advantages:
  • the user can change the project here without needing to scroll or collapse the project tree in the sidebar
• Disadvantages:
  • This is inconsistent with the current behavior for project actions
  • In my experience with similar interface, I found I sometimes clicked the button without paying noticing that my current project/file was not selected (or I was paranoid about doing that when checking the interface)

[JoelProminic]

The initial implementation looks like this:

Here is an example of the action configuration. This is currently in the code only:

Moonshine-IDE/ide/MoonshineSharedCore/src/actionScripts/plugin/haxe/hxproject/HaxeProjectPlugin.as

Lines 102 to 104 in a9b13c3

	new ActionItemVO(resourceManager.getString('resources', 'BUILD_PROJECT'), ActionItemTypes.BUILD, HaxeBuildEvent.BUILD_DEBUG),
	new ActionItemVO(resourceManager.getString('resources', 'BUILD_AND_RUN'), ActionItemTypes.RUN, HaxeBuildEvent.BUILD_AND_RUN),
	new ActionItemVO("Debug", ActionItemTypes.DEBUG, HaxeBuildEvent.BUILD_DEBUG)

We were also talking about highlighting the selected project in the project tree.