Clojurians Log v2
reveal 2021-04-12
how are you guys doing when you want to copy back a value from reveal to use in the code? sometimes selecting is hard when the structure is huge, wonder if there are other options
Hmm, I think I have enough structural navigation information in Reveal to allow selecting the whole data structure in a single keystroke..
extend/shrink selection would be lovely
yeah yeah that’s what I had in mind
at least extend
shrink requires some more state handling…
Yeah I'd imagine so
some of the built in views let you zoom in and navigate deeply structures
I still think there's room for more tools aimed at navigating and summarizing "medium" size data.
I regularly use my https://github.com/phronmophobic/reveal-treemap to zoom in on part of nested structure, but I think there's still lots of interesting, unexplored improvements available. I would love to hear more ideas about the subject
that looks really nice, thanks for sharing!
Am I getting it correctly that once you click an element then pressing enter will bring up the view selection dialog for that element?
Yes, although clicking only selects leaves of the tree. The pane on the right shows the keypath to the selected leaf node an you can use that to select parents of the leaf node, https://blog.phronemophobic.com/treemap/images/keypath-box-hover-shrunk.gif
It's still a work in progress. I wrote about the current approach and future work https://blog.phronemophobic.com/treemap/treemaps-are-awesome.html. Would love to hear if you have any suggestions or improvements.