- Just a single huge commit. This has been developed over too long a
time, required many tiny changes across too many files and has seen too
many iterations to be separated into separate commits.
The original branch with all the messy commits will be kept around for
posterity
bb220ad0f2...adomasven:feature/react-item-tree
- Replaces XUL <tree> element across the whole zotero client codebase
with a custom supermegafast virtualized-table inspired by
react-virtualized yet mimicking old XUL treeview API. The
virtualized-table sits on top on a raw-to-the-metal,
interpreted-at-runtime JS based windowing solution inspired by
react-window. React-based solutions could not be used because they were
slow and Zotero UI needs to be responsive and be able to
display thousands of rows in a treeview without any slowdowns.
- Attempts were made at making this screen-reader friendly, but yet to
be tested with something like JAWS
- RTL-friendly
- Styling and behaviour across all platforms was copied as closely as
possible to the original XUL tree
- Instead of row-based scroll snapping this has smooth-scrolling. If
you're using arrow keys to browse through the tree then it effectively
snap-scrolls. Current CSS snap scroll attributes do not seem to work in
the way we would require even on up-to-date browsers, yet alone the ESR
version of FX that Zotero is on. JS solutions are either terrible for
performance or produce inexcusable jitter.
- When dragging-and-dropping items the initial drag freezes the UI for
a fairly jarring amount of time. Does not seem to be fixable due to
the synchronous code that needs to be run in the dragstart handler.
Used to be possible to run that code async with the XUL tree.
- Item tree column picker no longer has a dedicated button. Just
right-click the columns. The column preferences (width, order, etc) are
no longer handled by XUL, which required a custom serialization and
storage solution that throws warnings in the developer console due to
the amount of data being stored. Might cause temporary freezing on HDDs
upon column resize/reorder/visibility toggling.
- Context menu handling code basically unchanged, but any UI changes
that plugins may have wanted to do (including adding new columns) will
have to be redone by them. No serious thought has gone into how plugin
developers would achieve that yet.
- Opens up the possibility for awesome alternative ways to render the
tree items, including things like multiple-row view for the item tree,
which has been requested for a long while especially by users switching
from other referencing software
zotero://open-pdf/library/items/AABBCCDD?annotation=[annotation-key]
Fallback to a page if annotation is missing:
zotero://open-pdf/library/items/AABBCCDD?page=123&annotation=[annotation-key]
Fixes#2125
- Limit field autocomplete to current library in item pane (previously
only done for creator and access date)
- Improve positional parameter usage to avoid duplicate parameters
- Code cleanup
And use when opening PDFs in My Library from items list and
zotero://open-pdf
This also adds "Zotero" to the main PDF reader pref, which will be the
real way to set this, but that option is hidden for now so that group
library items will still open with the configured reader.
But skip it at startup, even if flagged on, if there are schema update
steps to perform, to avoid creating tables that aren't expected to exist
yet.
Originally added in 5b9e6497a but disabled in c4cc44528 and 7a434df53
I'm not totally sure why we didn't do this years ago, but this fixes
performances problems in the new React tags box, and should improve
autocomplete performance generally in large libraries.
- The Mozilla CommonJS loader is no longer available, so bundle the
Fx52 version of it
- Strict mode is enforced
- `this` is only defined as a global object in .jsm files, not .js files
- `this` can't be converted to a string for BackstagePass test, so check
for presence of Components.utils.import instead
- The return value from import() is no longer available
- Check for retracted items using data from Retraction Watch
- Show an X next to retracted items in the items list, and show a
scary message at the top of the item pane with more info and links.
- Lookup is done in a privacy-preserving manner using k-anonymity --
the server is unable to determine the specific items that exist in
the client, so people who don't sync don't need to share any library
data (though the server doesn't log the lookups anyway).
TODO:
- Pop up an alert when new items are found
- Show a confirmation prompt when citing a retracted item
- Support items without DOIs or PMIDs
- Add a proper PMID field and expand DOI to more item types so these
values don't need to be parsed out of Extra
- Clear the banner immediately when all possible fields are cleared
instead of waiting a few seconds
- Support items within collections and searches:
zotero://select/library/collections/:collectionKey/items/:itemKey
zotero://select/groups/:groupID/collections/:collectionKey/items/:itemKey
- Fix the 'itemKey' parameter:
zotero://select/library/collections/:collectionKey/items?itemKey=:itemKey1,:itemKey2
- Select library root if collection/search not specified
This adds selectItems() to ZoteroPane and collectionTreeView and removes
the ancient, unused 'expand' argument to selectItem(), which didn't
really make sense there. It also includes a new
itemTreeView::ensureRowsAreVisible() that tries to scroll to an
appropriate place (or, better yet, not scroll at all) given the
specified rows and page size.
Currently only .status and .getResponseHeader() (for getting 'Location')
are available in the returned object, but we could make the body
available if necessary.
