Panel auto hide option, for when there is nothing to show

[supermario]

Adds a config option:

Which behaves like so:

Didn't presume to make it default: true as I'm unsure if this is a generally desired behavior, but I prefer to have the visual space when there are no errors, perhaps someone else would too? 😄

[varosi]

The same will be useful for auto-hiding Completion Hint Panel, too. If it is empty to be hidden.

[lierdakil]

First of, thank you for your work. It's greatly appreciated. I do have some reservations however.

Problem is, there are some control elements on the panel besides check results, f.ex., with ide-haskell-cabal:

What do you think about hiding only the output messages, but leaving panel header in place? In essence, something similar to this:

I know it still takes up valuable vertical space, which is a limited resource on smaller 16:9 screens (like a WXGA notebook), but I feel that there needs to be some sort of balance between that and control visibility.

Added complexity: special considerations would be needed in case panel is docked to left or right border.

[supermario]

@lierdakil great point. I think leaving the header panel intact is a great idea, living with a 20px reduction is definitely better than a permanent ~100-200px one IMO!

It would also have the added benefit that you could still see when the plugin is "thinking" on file save – something of which there is no indicator with my current solution.

Happy to give it a bash but unsure if my atom-foo (or js/coffee-foo for that matter) is strong enough 😬 might need some pointers.

[lierdakil]

Turns out, this was more involved than adding a couple lines here and there, so thank you for offering, but I decided it'd be easier if I do this myself. Most notably, some arcane css-foo was required to make this play nice with panel docked to left/right (see 6a9b1159f75fdd605ff6b7705b33770ec8d758ab if interested -- it does some other things besides that, though)

Published as v1.9.0. Please report any issues with output hiding you encounter (it might be a little bit wonky, especially in conjunction with ide-haskell-cabal or ide-haskell-repl). Also it assumes that you have switchTabOnCheck enabled. If you don't, output won't show automatically on new messages -- you'll have to click on tab you want explicitly.

[lierdakil]

@varosi, ac-h implements hiding completion hint panel in v0.7.0, see settings.

[varosi]

@lierdakil, 10x! I'm waiting for 0.7.0 to be available for download!

[lierdakil]

@varosi, it is already, but you need Atom 1.13.

[varosi]

Thanks for the hint! I now updated it from the site, because automatic update was not reporting this new version.

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@varosi https://github.com/varosi, it is already, but you need Atom 1.13.

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[varosi]

Just a small bug report:

1. Panel output is empty
2. Go to settings and enable auto-hiding
3. Output will not hide in this moment even it is empty. I have to click "Build" to hide it.

2017-01-16 12:36 GMT+02:00 Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev varosi@gmail.com:

Thanks for the hint! I now updated it from the site, because automatic update was not reporting this new version.

2017-01-16 12:30 GMT+02:00 Nikolay Yakimov notifications@github.com:

@varosi https://github.com/varosi, it is already, but you need Atom 1.13.

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[lierdakil]

I don't see this as a bug. You can manually open collapsed output if you click on any tab, and you can also collapse output manually by clicking on current tab again. So generally speaking, empty non-collapsed output is a perfectly valid state. Of course, I could add a hook to collapse output when setting is triggered, but I'd prefer to avoid this additional complexity.

[varosi]

Whatever you decide. It's not a big deal. I have just noticed this.

[supermario]

@lierdakil awesome, works well! 💯