Submitted by Red-R Developme... on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 21:12
For Red-R1.90 template searching functionality will be reimplemented in the search-bar as will web searching.
Templates are collections of widgets that are pre-connected and load onto a single tab. We think that our changes will make using templates more convenient for users and will encourage their use, submission and expansion in the Red-R framework.
Red-R does not have the ability to parse all directories on the users machine (or at least not to do this efficiently enough to make doing it worth while). Red-R searches for templates in two locations.
1) The Templates directory. This is in the Documents/Red-R/Templates location or equivalent depending on the operating system.
2) The templates directories of each of the installed packages.
Users are free to save templates to any location, but these must be loaded manually using the "Open" dialog.
We would appreciate feedback on a feature that would allow users to set one or more additional locations to search for templates.
We have also added the ability to use the search bar as a web query tool to search the Red-R website. Simply add the tag !@ to the beginning of a search, ex; "!@ read files" to query the Red-R website allowing users to have rapid access to help and features. This feature was added to prevent the loading of matching widgets when the user wishes to get help for those terms.
Again we always appreciate feedback on features and welcome suggestions.
Kyle R. Covington
Red-R Core Development Team