Time stamp with serial module

[WoodenNautilus]

Hello,

First of all, I would like to thank you for the great work you did with this software !

I have a question. Do you plan on adding an option to add a timestamp when a new line appears on the serial link ? It would be a great addition !

Thanks for your answer !

Greetings

[Eugeny]

This is something that a plugin could do easily by providing a SessionMiddleware :)

[WoodenNautilus]

Hello,

I haven't been able to develop this plugin. Though, I will have time in the incoming weeks and hope to be able to develop this feature. I will let you know I soon as I start this project,

[Eugeny]

@WoodenNautilus let me know if you'll have questions. The cleanest way to add timestamps to the output would be implementing a SessionMiddleware which can read and change the output

[WoodenNautilus]

Hello guys,

I wanted to let you know that I just released the first version of this plugin called serial-timestamp. It is available under the Plugins menu of Tabby.

Let me know on the Github repos of this plugin if you have any issue.

A huge thank you to @Eugeny. Without him I wouldn't have been able to create this plugin.

[Eugeny]

tested and works nicely, great job 👌

[WoodenNautilus]

Thanks @Eugeny. Thank you for helping me, for developing Tabby and for making it an easily customizable tool !

[WoodenNautilus]

Hello @Eugeny ,

I have started this project. Until now I have been able to create a settings tab to configure the serial timestamp (none, dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy).

On the settings tab of the Clippy plugin, I have a question. I do not understand where the "paperclip" icon declared inside the ClippySettingsTabProvider class is located. How does the program knows where to find it ? After digging some more, I found icons.json

I am looking into the documentation and examples of the SessionMiddleware (and the class extending it TerminalStreamProcessor and oscProcessor). I am struggling to understand how I would "connect" to tabby-serial once I will be done writing my SessionMiddleware.
Until now, I failed to import SessionMiddleware from the tabby-core api.
I tried to declare a prodiver in my index.ts but I am not sur this is how it should be done.
You can a look a the code here.
If you could point me to some examples or give me some explanations, it would be much appreciated !

I hope my questions are not dumb questions. If so, please forgive me, I don't know much about Web technologies and Electron applications.

Thanks for your help.

[WoodenNautilus]

I feel one more time stupid as I looked into this and failed to understand properly the syntax ^1.0.147. I thought it meant npm would fetch the latest version available higher or equal to 1.0.147 and lower than 2.0.0.

Thanks to your help, I am now able to add a dummy message at the beginning of each line on a terminal.
My next step will be to actually display a timestamp in the format provided by the settings.

I tried to found a way to attach to the session if it is a serial session only but could not find a way to do it. Would you have some hints on how to do this ?

[Eugeny]

Yes, you can check whether terminal instanceof SerialTabComponent in your TerminalDecorator

[WoodenNautilus]

I just tried and face a problem. SerialTabComponent is not exported by tabby modules. How can I reference it in my plugin ?

[Eugeny]

True - I've added the exports to master, but to make the plugin work with the existing Tabby versions, I suggest using a different approach at least in the beginning - try terminal.constructor.name === 'SerialTabComponent'

[WoodenNautilus]

Thanks a lot, it works like a charm !
When the new release will roll out, I will make the code evolve to use the more elegant methods suggested earlier.

[WoodenNautilus]

As this plugin seems to work, I am closing this discussion. Thanks again for your help.