Implement support for an input modal

[kasper]

It has become clear that many use the modal for submitting text based input and commands to Phoenix. Since you need to bind every single key on your keyboard to make this work properly, it’s not really convenient. So we should really implement support for an input/prompt modal with relevant customising options and event callbacks for handling this use case.

[kasper]

Somewhat related to #158.

[apazzolini]

Would be awesome if this were able to behave like dmenu on Linux. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9m723tAurA for some inspiration.

[calebpeterson]

I got something to work using https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/choose (brew install choose-gui).

I use it to jump between open windows:

const OSASCRIPT_PATH = "/usr/bin/osascript";

const osascript = (script, callback = _.noop) =>
  Task.run(OSASCRIPT_PATH, ["-e", script], callback);

// Jump Between Open Windows
keys.push(
  new Key("j", ["cmd"], function () {
    const windows = Window.all({ visible: true });
    const titles = windows.map((window) => window.title()).join("\n");

    osascript(
      `do shell script "echo '${titles}' | /usr/local/bin/choose -c ff4a00 -n ${windows.length} -s 18 -m"`,
      (r) => {
        if (r.error) {
          Phoenix.log(`Choose failed ${r.status} ${r.error}`);
        } else {
          const selection = r.output.trim();
          const target = windows.find((window) => window.title() === selection);
          if (target) {
            Phoenix.log(`Focusing ${target.title()}`);
            target.app().focus();
            target.focus();
          }
        }
      }
    );
  })
);

cc @apazzolini

[kasper]

@calebpeterson Sounds cool!

[kasper]

Never too late! 😄 This will be released in the next version, available now for testing in master.