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makenai / robotnik

Drag and drop robotics educational library starring Johnny Five and Blockly (crowd goes wild)
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Save state #4

Closed makenai closed 9 years ago

makenai commented 9 years ago

It would be great if we saved state between sessions, so that if something unexpected happens, people can resume their block / code states. Dragging blocks is tedious, so its not fun to recreate something you lost. This could be saved on the client side using window.name or cookies or html 5 storage. It could also be saved to the filesystem.

BrianGenisio commented 9 years ago

Agreed. This platform has the potential to be a very rich robotics IDE. Blockly is just one way to write code, but a more advanced, professional interface in addition to Blockly would be awesome.

With that, I think that we should be able to create entire project spaces with multiple files. All of this would save to the file system. Every new project has a folder with assets. These assets would include code snippets, or Blockly layouts, configuration, etc.

And sorry if I am just spewing out my thoughts and assertions here on your project. I'm in brainstorming mode. Lots of ideas :)

Resseguie commented 9 years ago

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but looks like blockly supports local storage saving of sessions with just a couple lines of code? https://developers.google.com/blockly/installation/cloud-storage#local_storage

makenai commented 9 years ago

Yay, @BrianGenisio implemented saving of blockly states, and I moved it from filesystem to pouchdb in the last merge.