[ENH] On the Export window: Consider adding a blockquote containing the macro in "Raw Edit" format

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[ENH] On the Export window: Consider adding a blockquote containing the macro in "Raw Edit" format

xan2622 opened this issue 3 years ago · 7 comments

xan2622 commented 3 years ago

🟢 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I browsed the WLM forum and noticed that some GSE users complained about the lack of option to export a macro as plain text:

https://wowlazymacros.com/t/gses-new-exporting-method-timothy/4617
https://wowlazymacros.com/t/plain-text-export-request/4532

Currently, when players browse a topic on the WLM forum, they can't read/see what spells are inside the posted GSE 3 macro.
The only way to browse the macro (to read it) is only after importing the macro in GSE 3, in game.

After writting this short "tutorial": https://wowlazymacros.com/t/plain-text-export-request/4532/3
... I thought that it would make sense if the Export window could also feature a new blockquote containing the macro in a readable way.

The "Raw Edit" button already does the job but it seems that GSE 3 users don't always think of using it to copy+paste the Raw version in their WLM topic.

IMO, it would make sense to add an extra checkbox on the Export window to let the GSE user choose to include (or not) a blockquote containing the "Raw version" of the macro.

🟢 Describe the solution you'd like
Consider adding a new checkbox (on the Export window) that would let add a new blockquote in the Export window, a blockquote that would contain the Raw version of the macro.

🟢 Mock-up

As an example, let's take this WLM thread:
https://wowlazymacros.com/t/scarylarrygames-modded-shirk-mm-macros-updated-1-30-2021/22078

Here is what it would look like with this new blockquote containing the macro in plain text:

GSE 3 users would be able to read macros in plain text on the WLM forum.

TimothyLuke · Answer 1 · 2021-07-20T21:55:16.000Z

This is never going to happen. I did this before and it was a disaster. In GSE1 I spent forever dealing with copy and paste issues so this was removed in GSE2.

TimothyLuke · Answer 2 · 2021-07-20T22:01:40.000Z

Something to be aware of Xan, WLM users also consist in total of less than 20% of GSE users.

xan2622 · Answer 3 · 2021-07-21T03:34:17.000Z

This is never going to happen. I did this before and it was a disaster. In GSE1 I spent forever dealing with copy and paste issues so this was removed in GSE2.

OK, I respect your decision not to bring back this option since you got "Copy&Paste issues".

Your words are strong ("disaster"). 😲
Could you please elaborate (or point me to the changelog or forum message that explains why it caused you so much trouble)? TIA

xan2622 · Answer 4 · 2021-07-21T03:57:27.000Z

😲 oh, wow. Indeed. I didn't know it caused you all these problems in the past.

Really sorry for bringing back bad memories with this suggestion.

TimothyLuke · Answer 5 · 2021-07-21T03:49:13.000Z

Think every 5 minutes getting "Why cant i import this" messages on discord. simply because of the difference between “ and " - Windows browsers changed every " to “ and you couldn't code around it. I now maybe get one every 60 days as opposed to 10 seconds. (BTW you need to look close to see the difference. this was one of a few quirks with copying and pasting) https://wowlazymacros.com/search?q=cant%20import #129 <-- this is the initial attempt to fix #175 #201 #202 #306 #247 #363 BTW none of these fixes actually solved the problem. When you send a macro between clients ingame it uses this serialised format and was error free. Using this for import and export eliminated these errors The thing that actually fixed things was #342

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TimothyLuke · Answer 6 · 2021-07-21T03:52:43.000Z

So from inception until #342 it was like you are describing. Then it might have been at the launch of BFA the old format was removed and there was just the compressed version from this point on.

TimothyLuke · Answer 7 · 2021-07-21T04:03:09.000Z

Nah not an issue bringing it up at all. I put the Raw Edit button in as a concession but if anyone tries to copy and paste to it from the browser it's going to have all the same issues. Its fine from Notepad, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Atom.io and Sublime etc.

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