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wavedrom / wavedrom.github.io

Digital timing diagram editor
https://wavedrom.com
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Enhancement: desktop editor--js source coming from external file, autoloading #12

Open itsayellow opened 8 years ago

itsayellow commented 8 years ago

This is definitely lower-priority than functional fixes, but it would be super useful for me:

I love to edit my waveform .js code in an external text editor. I then drag the .js file into the wavedrom source window to load my code to see how I'm doing. This gets a little time-consuming on updates, where I have to delete the current code in wavedrom and re-drag the file into the window with my mouse each time I want to view updates.

It would be great if there was a possibility in the stand-alone editor to point to a particular file, and even better if there was some sort of reload button or auto-reloading that would happen when the .js file changed.

drom commented 8 years ago

@itsayellow good idea. It is possible, but we have to handle the case when edits made in both places. Or we can run WaveDromEditor in viewer mode?

itsayellow commented 8 years ago

I agree it would be simplest for it to be in view-only mode. Then you wouldn't have to handle file saving from WaveDromEditor and keeping track of two sources of changes.

For my purposes, I would be very happy with even a viewer mode only. Depending on long-term plans for wavedrom, the other capabilities could always be added later.