Not maintained ?

[cedvan]

Hi,

The work done is great! But these repositories are no longer maintained? If yes, why !?

[ejvindh]

Strut was a one-person project -- probably the developer (tantaman) got busy doing other stuff, or simply lost interest :)

[cedvan]

Shit, it's already a great job and there is still a lot of room for improvement :)

[tantaman]

After a 4 year break, I'm coming back to the project.

[MohannadNaj]

Hi @tantaman

It's great seeing you back to the project!

I was learning while trying to enhance many aspects of Strut, my code is a mess, I admit it, but the end user-facing results may looks good. It's my first-and-only backbone/requirejs/,,, project, but I tried as much as I can to follow your structure.

You can check it out here:
https://github.com/MohannadNaj/Strut

and the dist version at gh-pages:
https://mohannadnaj.github.io/Strut/

Mainly the newly added features:

• Migrated to Bootstrap 3 (only this part is included in this PR Migrating to Bootstrap v3.3.7 #375 although I remember it's not completed and I had to modify some files here and there after the latest commit on that PR).

• Ability to paste images directly from the keyboard in the "Image" modal!

• Ability to move components using the keyboard (with/without Shift for larger movement, right /left /up /down)

• Adding substeps support!

With a z-index to increase/decrease, a feature for better arrangement of components inside the slide and showing one substep before the other. This controls in the upper left corner:

• Adding and using "Settings" control button
  

As a control modal for some user settings

using this modal, the options for now:
[ ] Upload Images to Imgur.com (ability to use base64 instead)
[ ] Show usage hint at presentation beginning (the first hint in the generated presentation)
[ ] Hide other slides while navigating (before this, excluding the active slide all slides in impress had a opacity high degree, this setting will hide it completely).

[ ] Hide substeps only before the first time they enter the slide, then keep it shown (prevents hiding the newly showed substeps after stepping out of a slide)

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I'm not confident enough to submit all of these changes as a PR. it's alot of changes.

If there is some specific features up there you want me to extract and submit alone, I'm happy to do it. otherwise, there is a possibility that my ideas may inspire you. and I'm really excited seeing you back here, I do believe in your project/philosophy!

[tantaman]

MohannadNaj - the substep feature is really cool. I'll see if I can merge your changes back into the main repo.

[tantaman]

After refreshing my memory on both codebases (strut and strut2) further development will be happening on Strut2.

You can see the vision for Strut2 as it comes together here: https://github.com/tantaman/strut/blob/master/strut2.md

[tantaman]

Strut2 is being deployed here: https://tantaman.com/strut2/ (only supports authoring slides at the moment)

until it's ready for release. Note that the editor is markdown based.

[MohannadNaj]

@tantaman That's Awesome!

Wish I can do more to this project -Just to let you know, I used it to generate my graduation project presentation back at the end of 2017, which means I'll never forget Strut-.. the time will come when I'll be able to do more -I mean Frontend contributions-.

I guess now I'll just take the backseat and cheer: Go Matthew, Go!

Also, I think you already have a better plans for the backend subscription service. If not and if you are ok with PHP -Laravel framework- I'll be more than happy to work on that to take away some of the Backend work.

[tantaman]

Just a heads up that a new version has been deployed which allows:

• saving
• undo/redo
• linking slides to one another via @ mentioning content from a slide
• different styles
• canned layouts and transitions for presenting
• reordering slides

https://strut2.pages.dev/present

[TempleOfTemplar]

what's the current progress about Strut 2?

[tantaman]

Was working on offline support as well as multiplayer & collaborative editing and fell down a rabbithole.

tldr is that there isn't great existing tech to support those features. The opportunity was too good to pass up and I've been building https://vlcn.io/ for the last ~4-5 months to solve that problem.

Strut will resume as a use case of vlcn after the vlcn.io launch.