Thursday, November 21, 2019

Nightly inspiration

Yesterday I was almost decided to say that we “fix” #3348 by undoing Tonis’ change and leaving the security issue for later. But when waking up I had an idea how to make it. The ls_url of an ActionFormPanel must not be a class variable, it must be set by every instantiation. Simply:

Lino.users.MySettings.change_password = new Lino.WindowAction(
  { "autoHeight": true, "draggable": true, "maximizable": true,
    "maximized": false, "modal": true, "width": Lino.chars2width(50) },
  function() {
    var p = { "hide_top_toolbar": true, "is_main_window": true, "ls_url": "/users/UsersOverview" };
    return new Lino.users.AllUsers.change_password_ActionFormPanel(p);
});

It uses /users/UsersOverview (and not /users/MySettings) because UsersOverview is also visible to alice and happens to be the first actor that is visible to alice.

The name of the ActionFormPanel subclass uses AllUsers because that name is given by the first actor independently of its visibility.

I am talking about linoweb.js, i.e. in extjs. The problem maybe doesn’t even exist in React front end.

I also fixed an unknown bug: the JS code created a variable p when instantiating an ActionFormPanel, but then didn’t use it.

And lino.modlib.users.Users now has abstract = True so that Lino won’t show anything when a curious guy manually enters an AJAX request to it. Which means that complexity_factors() shows one view less.

While I was there I also fixed the old problem that you get signed out when you change your password (#2001). And the SignOut action now has show_in_bbar = False because it is probably irritating to have it in the toolbar of the “My preferences” window. It is available via the user menu only.

tox.ini causing problems

There were problems with the new tox.ini file of book.

I had again the problem I had on Tuesday, November 19, 2019: tox failed to run the tests, saying a long list of error messages (I reproduce those that seem relevant):

Running setup.py install for persistent: finished with status 'error'
...
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/regex_3
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -ffat-lto-objects -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.7m -I/home/luc/work/book/.tox/py37/include/python3.7m -c regex_3/_regex.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/regex_3/_regex.o
regex_3/_regex.c:48:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
 #include "Python.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

So the sudo apt install python-dev did not help…

I tried to delete the .tox directory and to run tox -r. No success yet. Let’s see what it says on travis.

Maybe also inv cov no longer calls inv prep ?

Python for kids

Inspired by Mustafa Anas’ post teach your kids to build their own game with Python - 1,

Mustafa’s script didn’t work out of the box for me, but it gave me the idea of having a collection of little examples for teaching programming to kids in the Lino newbies corner. After all Lino is meant to be sustainable, so why not publishing them. I started a section Python for kids.

I also remembered some never-published examples I wrote for a project with some village kids some years ago. But they are still in Python 2, so I’ll need some more work to convert them before publishing them.