link about tab to menu

[Sebastian-ubs]

This change is 

fixes #977

[Sebastian-ubs]

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https://discord.com/channels/1064938364597436416/1271145823807475785/1271428696162435133

[Sebastian-ubs]

Now this works.

TODOs:

• rename "about" to "showAboutDialog" to adher to the code style guide
• check if layout works without a last single tab (in here switched to "test tab 1", but if possible remove this)
• get a PR review

So either keep this pr open until I am back in September or work on those remaining things on your own :-)

[Sebastian-ubs]

Also without tabs Platform can be started and new tabs can be added via "Open Scripture Editor" or "Open Resource Viewer"

Completely idependent of this change: Throwing away the last tab produces an error, but everything seems to continue to work

react-dom.development.js:86 Warning: Attempted to synchronously unmount a root while React was already rendering. React cannot finish unmounting the root until the current render has completed, which may lead to a race condition.
at div
at DockBox (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:54158:9)
at div
at DockLayout (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:54706:9)
at DockLayoutWrapper (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:113249:106)
at PlatformDockLayout (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:113999:72)
at Main
at RenderedRoute (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:102295:5)
at Routes (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:102985:5)
at Router (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:102919:15)
at MemoryRouter (http://localhost:1212/renderer.dev.js:102814:5)
at App

[Sebastian-ubs]

Note that new dialogs open up each time, that you click the menu entry, but I think this is fine for now - maybe even good for playing with many windows.
Also min size for dialogs and tabs is something to consider in a future user story independent of this.

[tjcouch-sil]

Thanks for the hard work on this! Looks like a good improvement! Few things to adjust.

Sadly, for some reason, when I delete dock-saved-layout from localstorage, refresh, open the about tab, then open the scripture editor, the about tab disappears and no scripture editor appears. Things get even weirder after that. I haven't seen this problem before, but I also pretty much haven't ever closed all my tabs since I discovered long ago the problem with not being able to dock things once you close all tabs. Because this seems to make more apparent the unstable situation with no tabs, I think we will need to wait to merge this til after we make the demo branch.

Reviewed 2 of 10 files at r2, 9 of 10 files at r4, 1 of 1 files at r5, all commit messages.
Reviewable status: all files reviewed, 4 unresolved discussions (waiting on @Sebastian-ubs)

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extensions/src/platform-scripture/src/main.ts line 146 at r5 (raw file):

  );

  const showAboutDialogPromise = papi.commands.registerCommand('platform.about', async () =>

This command belongs in core, not in an extension. Could you maybe move this to the dialog service? Maybe similar to how these web view service commands are registered https://github.com/paranext/paranext-core/blob/link-about-tab-to-menu/src/renderer/services/web-view.service-host.ts#L1344

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extensions/src/platform-scripture/src/main.ts line 147 at r5 (raw file):

  const showAboutDialogPromise = papi.commands.registerCommand('platform.about', async () =>
    papi.dialogs.showAboutDialog(),

I believe this needs to be returned in order to make this command function properly wait on the dialog.

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extensions/src/platform-scripture/src/types/platform-scripture.d.ts line 653 at r5 (raw file):

  export interface CommandHandlers {
    'platform.about': (projectId?: string | undefined) => Promise<string | undefined>;

This would also move to papi-shared-types.ts when moving the command. Also please add a JSDoc :)

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src/shared/services/dialog.service-model.ts line 37 at r5 (raw file):

   *
   * @param options Various options for configuring the dialog that shows
   * @returns Returns the user's selected project id or `undefined` if the user cancels

Is anything returned from the about dialog? Should this be changed?

[tjcouch-sil]

Maybe the disappearing is somehow related to it being a dialog. We should probably adjust things so opening a dialog doesn't change the latest place a tab was opened. That way, new tabs won't open as a tab in the same group as dialogs.

Reviewable status: all files reviewed, 4 unresolved discussions (waiting on @Sebastian-ubs)

[irahopkinson]

@Sebastian-ubs nudge on this PR. If you aren't finishing this soon then perhaps close it?

[Sebastian-ubs]

Thanks, I wanted to work on it, but has no prio right now. Changes done in here are still valid, but seem not enough. Will wait until https://github.com/paranext/ux/issues/94 gets priority.

[Sebastian-ubs]

@tjcouch-sil when we have the home screen, could we switch the default "about" tab out with the "home" and finish putting about in a dialog?