“Missing Stuff: It's Not Me!”

For the last two days I've been looking at some of Frontier's (and Radio's) newest features. Things that I didn't have time for until now, like WindowTypes and NodeTypes.

Putting a bit of polish on a small tool for a client, I wanted to create a pretty "nodeTyped" outline. (I'll say more on that in a separate entry.)

I spun my wheels for a couple hours figuring out how to implement nodeTypes in Frontier. First, there's very very little documentation. Second, I couldn't find some of the scripts that I knew had to be there somewhere.

For example, double click on a collapsed line in an outline, and the opExpand callbacks runs Frontier.tools.nodeTypes.expand. Bing! Yep, that works nicely. Double click on the line again to collapse it, the opCollapse callbacks should run, including Frontier.tools.nodeTypes.collapse.

Bong. Unfortunately, there's no such script.

In frustration, I talked to Brent to find out if my installation was hosed somehow, or if they'd forgotten to include scripts in Frontier that have been part of Radio for almost a year. I thought it had to be something about my setup, since I can be a little hard on the software at times.

Nope. Turns out that there are a number of scripts and 'trinkets' that never crossed over from Radio to Frontier.

This can make it difficult to write scripts in one place that will automatically work in both.

I've promised Brent that I'll document any more missing objects I come across.