06-01-2021, 04:16 PM
Addressing this directly: I won't lie that Covid19 had a big effect on development here. We have had to make some major pivots the last eight months and all of our development effort has been geared towards that effort.
Everything we are developing on is on 4.8, so that is why you are seeing bug fixes. If something is not getting fixed at the moment, it is likely that we don't encounter that aspect (for example, we don't use "hidden row" in any of our products) and we don't really know about it. We only found out about issues there when Listy put an issue into Github.
A number of our projects recently have not been using the TACTIC UI except for administrative interfaces. The TACTIC backend has been connected to React front ends. As you may or may not have noticed, there have been a bunch of work recently getting better support TACTIC API to use REST calls. We have started documenting this, but it hasn't made it to the TACTIC core docs. For reference, you can look here: https://southpawtech.com/doc/API/
In particular, you can see that there are examples using React.
At the moment, most of the TACTIC Admin UI has been updated to use BMD (Bootstrap material design) and we are looking at upgrading this from V4 to V5. I still think BMD is a good choice as I have found React apps to be very good at simple clean interactive interfaces, but starts to become unwieldly when trying to do something complicated (like workflow editor, for example). I may be wrong with this, but this is my current experience.
One aspect that I think is pretty outdated is the VFX plugins, which is what I think Listy is referring to. Am I right about that assumption?
Everything we are developing on is on 4.8, so that is why you are seeing bug fixes. If something is not getting fixed at the moment, it is likely that we don't encounter that aspect (for example, we don't use "hidden row" in any of our products) and we don't really know about it. We only found out about issues there when Listy put an issue into Github.
A number of our projects recently have not been using the TACTIC UI except for administrative interfaces. The TACTIC backend has been connected to React front ends. As you may or may not have noticed, there have been a bunch of work recently getting better support TACTIC API to use REST calls. We have started documenting this, but it hasn't made it to the TACTIC core docs. For reference, you can look here: https://southpawtech.com/doc/API/
In particular, you can see that there are examples using React.
At the moment, most of the TACTIC Admin UI has been updated to use BMD (Bootstrap material design) and we are looking at upgrading this from V4 to V5. I still think BMD is a good choice as I have found React apps to be very good at simple clean interactive interfaces, but starts to become unwieldly when trying to do something complicated (like workflow editor, for example). I may be wrong with this, but this is my current experience.
One aspect that I think is pretty outdated is the VFX plugins, which is what I think Listy is referring to. Am I right about that assumption?