Addresses #260, Add auto-complete to search window
- New XPCOM autocomplete component for Zotero data -- can be used by setting the autocompletesearch attribute of a textbox to 'zotero' and passing a search scope with the autocompletesearchparam attribute. Additional parameters can be passed by appending them to the autocompletesearchparam value with a '/', e.g. 'tag/2732' (to exclude tags that show up in item 2732)
- Tag entry now uses more or less the same interface as metadata -- no more popup window -- note that tab isn't working properly yet, and there's no way to quickly enter multiple tags (though it's now considerably quicker than it was before)
- Autocomplete for tags, excluding any tags already set for the current item
- Standalone note windows now register with the Notifier (since tags needed item modification notifications to work properly), which will help with #282, "Notes opened in separate windows need item notification"
- Tags are now retrieved in alphabetical order
- Scholar.Item.replaceTag(oldTagID, newTag), with a single notify
- Scholar.getAncestorByTagName(elem, tagName) -- walk up the DOM tree from an element until an element with the specified tag name is found (also checks with 'xul:' prefix, for use in XBL), or false if not found -- probably shouldn't be used too widely, since it's doing string comparisons, but better than specifying, say, nine '.parentNode' properties, and makes for more resilient code
A few notes:
- Autocomplete in Minefield seems to self-destruct after using it in the same field a few times, taking down saving of the field with it -- this may or may not be my fault, but it makes Zotero more or less unusable in 3.0 at the moment. Sorry. (I use 3.0 myself for development, so I'll work on it.)
- This would have been much, much easier if having an autocomplete textbox (which uses an XBL-generated popup for the suggestions) within a popup (as it is in the independent note edit panes) didn't introduce all sorts of crazy bugs that had to be defeated with annoying hackery -- one side effect of this is that at the moment you can't close the tags popup with the Escape key
- Independent note windows now need to pull in itemPane.js to function properly, which is a bit messy and not ideal, but less messy and more ideal than duplicating all the dual-state editor and tabindex logic would be
- Hitting tab in a tag field not only doesn't work but also breaks things until the next window refresh.
- There are undoubtedly other bugs.
- import translators no longer fail when trying to import an item with no name
- the T2/BT field becomes the publication title when no JO/JF field is available (fixes newspaper issues)
- Y2 is now treated as part of the date if and only if it is improperly formatted (seriously, why can't Thomson get their own specs straight?)
- work around EndNote's strange behavior of putting article titles into notes for no apparent reason
- RIS export gives dates as per specification
- fixed a bug that could have (potentially) caused problems formatting "January"
- allow translators to access strToDate function
MODS uses the encoding as specified in the <?xml tag, or else UTF-8
RIS uses IBM850, since the spec says "IBM Extended Character Set" and it's the only code page Mozilla supports. (should I do this? or just use unicode?)
MARC uses UTF-8, since I don't think there's any way to get full MARC-8 support, and UTF-8 is now the preferred encoding anyway
- improved bibliography (especially Chicago Manual of Style)
- improved error handling for import/export/bibliography
- bibliographic export now ignores notes and standalone attachment (before, they made export silently fail). an error appears if you try to generate a bibliography from only notes or standalone attachments.
positions "saving item" window in a slightly better place on Windows
the UMich bug was actually bigger than I though. as it turns out, the HiddenDOMWindow in Windows is not a chrome window, so i had to modify createHiddenBrowser() to attach the hidden browser object to an existing browser window. i don't believe this should have any adverse effects for snapshots, etc., but Dan, correct me if i'm wrong. it would be nice to be able to create a real chrome instance instead of a XUL element, but all of my attempts at doing so have failed.
i've fixed the Amazon.com bug (i think) and made the translator show a "Could Not Save Item" prompt rather than show an empty list, but if you see any other pages where this happens, let me know
- make EBSCO scraper work better through a proxy
- shorten Accession Number -> Accession No, Journal Abbreviation -> Journal Abbr, Publication Title -> Publication. it does look a bit stranger, but it also makes the interface more functional (especially for those of us without giant widescreen LCDs ;-)
(Apparently 'columnName NONE' in SQLite is functionally equivalent to 'columnName ILUVTIDDLYWINKS' in setting column affinity--as in, they both use the default of NUMERIC--which frankly I feel the docs could've been slightly more clear on, since they scatter the word NONE in capital letters all about the page with the other affinity keywords...)
modifies scrapers to use dates in the format that comes out of the page, rather than converting to SQL
adds Scholar.Date.formatDate() to provide a pretty representation of dates
- Scholar.strToDate() accepts a string date and returns an object containing year, month, day, and part
- capture access date whenever URL is captured
- updated Zotero.dot to use new namespaces
Closes#208, tags overflow pane
This is kind of cheating, but it works, and as long as we can live with a 170px min-height, I'm not going to take the time to figure out how (and whether) this can be fixed.
- About panel now gets version number automatically
- Change version from 1.0a1 to 1.0b1
* Important: If you're on an SVN install, you need to rename the scholar@chnm.gmu.edu text file in your profile extension directory to zotero@chnm.gmu.edu *
XPI installs will (I think) update automatically, since I kept an entry in updates.rdf with the old GUID
This needs to be replaced with a 24-bit PNG with a transparent (rather than white) background -- Dan, you can either send that to me or go ahead and replace it yourself (I'd do it but I don't know the kerning, etc.)
Using a -1px bottom margin to get infinite height (a la Fitts's Law) when maximized, though I haven't tested on Windows or Linux -- let me know if clicking the screen edge doesn't work for you
Proper labels for saved searches, hiding rather than disabling irrelevant menu options, added "New Saved Search..." to menu, made file and bibliography export work with saved searches, added "Export Library..." option to Library drop-down
addresses #214, add footnote support to word integration
- the third icon on the Zotero Word toolbar is now reserved for "Document Options," which, for now, means on the selection of styles
- the Document Options window will, for now, appear the first time you create a citation. the default style probably belongs in the Scholar preferences window.
- you can now generate citations in both footnote and in-text citation formats. you can't yet switch between them on the fly, but that should be coming soon...
- Ibid is not yet implemented. again, coming soon.
- select() new collections and saved searches on creation
- Show all collections in search dialog Collection condition drop-down, not just top-level ones -- eventually there should probably be some sort of level indication to show hierarchy
- Don't allow a search to define itself as a savedSearchID condition. Right.
- Fixed a couple bugs in Collection condition creation that would've made such searches often not work
- Added saved search 'add' support to collectionTreeView notify(), and send the right trigger from Scholar.Search
Implemented isBefore and isAfter operators and added to date conditions -- currently have to type dates in SQL format, but we'll have a chooser or something by Beta 2 (this should probably be a known issue)
Added isLessThan and isGreaterThan to 'pages', 'section', 'accessionNumber', 'seriesNumber', and 'issue' fields, though somebody should probably check me on that list
Removed JS strict warning on empty search results
- Added support for tabbing between fields, which unfortunately we don't get for free from tabindex because of what we're doing with labels and textboxes. (The textbox being tabbed away from is deleted before the blur() completes, so it doesn't know where it's supposed to go next.) Basically replicated the built-in functionality for all the text fields -- can add on special tricks for creator adding/removing later.
- Increased spacing between rows slightly and adjusted margins to get rid of shifting when switching between label and textbox -- this also fixes the annoying clicking-off-a-textbox-to-the-lower-portion-of-a-label-below-it-doesn't-select-the-label problem.
not yet implemented:
- formatted in-text citations, rather than placeholders
- footnotes
- selection of citation style (for now, only APA is available)
- support for non-ASCII characters
- exclusion of notes from select items window
- Windows support (although it shouldn't be difficult)
- probably much more...
"Notes" column changed to "#" and combined with the attachment count. "#" isn't exactly immediately self-explanatory, but "Notes/attachments" would be way too long, and once you realize what it's for (i.e. the first time you create a child item), you really don't want the column taking up any more room than that... If people have a better suggestion, do share.
The notes/attachment count wasn't going down on an attachment deletion because it's not actually a notes/attachment count at all--it's a notes count, and new attachments were incorrectly incrementing it.
This technically either fixes or invalidates #202 ("attachments categorized as notes"), depending on how you look at it, but I'll change that to reflect the desired goal of having a combined notes/attachments count.
Refs #202
