- the manage parser test panel now catches all network errors. error data back from the server is presented better, and the traceback is now viewable in a special new button on the network job control
- the edit shortcut set dialog now gives a veto text popup if you try to ok with a shortcut set twice (previously, it would ok and merge down to one command randomly). support for multiple commands per shortcut will come in future
- entering alt+number in the shortcut entry dialog on windows will no longer spam some errors about 'null character'
- fixed a 'this object is too huge' check in the database, which mostly affects gui sessions with millions of objects, to check against 1 billion bytes max size rather than 1GB, as here https://sqlite.org/limits.html (issue #816)
- fixed the 8chan.moe parser, which was pulling hash incorrectly. it should now save more bandwidth
- updated the e621 parser to pull their (new?) 'lore' tags, which all end in _(lore) and refer to canonical gender and some spice. they come with the 'lore' namespace for now, we'll see how it works out. a user reports these are useful for blacklists
- .
- new string processing sort step (for advanced users):
- string processing objects have a new processing step: String Sorter
- this sorter can sort the whole list of strings, either strict lexicographic or 'human sort' that does numbers properly, asc/desc
- it can also take a regex for the sort 'key', so you can sample just the number or name you want for sort purposes
- content parsers no longer have the 'sort formulae results' controls. any content parser with existing sort has been converted so its string processing object has a String Sort step appended
- the string processing UI is still built around single string processing, so the test UI here is essentially non-functional, but you can see the sort happen in the formula test parse panel
- I will add a String Slicer in future to sample the list of strings, so you'll be able to grab the top item etc...
- .
- boring code cleanup:
- refactored the refresh call in filename tagging dialog to nicer Qt signals
- the add/remove taglists on the simple panel are also moved to Qt signals
- and so are 'filter' taglists
- fixed some typos in new help text
- removed a 'needs restart' string in 'gui pages' options that no longer does
- .
- here is a hieroglyph falcon:
- 𓅃

next week

A thing I wanted to move forward this week, the network improvements, just got lost in the mix, fugg. I also fell way behind on some messages. I think I may simply be ill. Not the coof, and I am not dying or anything, but I'm a little low productivity at the moment. No worries, I'll make sure to rest enough and get back to it. Otherwise, I want to get this String Slicer sorted. Since network improvements are proving such a problem to break up and fold into 'normal' work, I may end up scheduling several weeks over March/April to do it in one go so I can move on multiple local file services, we'll see.

I am trying to contribute to making the PTR better by adding siblings/parent and removing garbage, but this doesn't help. In manage tags window, I sibling a tag like this:

tag1 (displays as tag2)

How do I now add parents to tag2? I can't. Also the sibling change does not appear until I commit the pending tags, which means I'll have to close the manage tags window and lose my place in the tag list (I often have thousands of files open at once so the list will be long). Annoying.

I had a great week. I caught up on some small fixes and improvements, finished off a new parsing tool for advanced users, improved behind the scenes server code, and reworked the tag sorting dropdown to be easier to use.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

>>1018
Thank you for your feedback. I will extend the tag menu when there is a sibling displayed like that to allow for commands on the sibling.

I would also like to work on the sibling/parent and general tag mapping edit logic, pulling it out of their specific dialogs, so I can better support quicker 'just do a quick change' actions for all these things. I don't like having to boot a big dialog just to add one thing either.