Programmatic Get/Set/Submit Example (Comments Plugin)
perchance.org

(To be clear, since I realized just now that to non-devs the title might be misleading: This feature does not add AI bots to your comments plugin by default! The comments plugin and the AI plugins are completely distinct. But plugins can of course interact with one another, and this new feature of the comments plugin allows for some interesting interactions - the title just gives one of those as a fun example.)

You can now “programmatically” submit comments on behalf of the user, and you can also get/set the contents of the input text box.

If a comment was programmatically submitted, then a little icon is shown on the comment to indicate that the user didn’t personally click the submit button.

This feature, used alongside the onComment/onLoad feature can e.g. be used to create an AI bot that “lives in” your comments box, or create a multiplayer game of chess, or maybe add an auto-error-report log using window.onerror, and so on.

Edit: Also, you can now use c.comments to get an array/list of the comments - but make sure to do that only after onLoad has triggered, since c.comments only returns loaded comments - so if comments box hasn’t loaded yet, you’ll get an empty array.

Let me know if you find any bugs/issues!

https://perchance.org/programmatic-get-set-submit-comments-plugin-example#edit

I’ll probably create a little AI bot example at some point, but you’re welcome to beat me to it! (Please post it here on lemmy if you do)

  • BluePower@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In my advanced comments plugin demo, the upper input text (the one outside of the comments plugin box) doesn’t seem to immediately put the text into the lower comments (inside the frame) using the “send green box text to comment input box” method that fires every time someone types on the upper one. Is there something wrong with the code or something? It’s a textarea, though, not an input element.

    • VioneT@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      See this silly video

      Since you have a ‘mirror’ on the bottom one, the com.inputText is being applied on the last instance of the comments. Which is why it isn’t being mirrored on the top one.

      • BluePower@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Oh, I tried that, and it actually did, I definitely didn’t see that before. 😆 But I only assign the com variable to the first instance of the commentsPlugin(), so this could be kind of a strange bug. @perchance@lemmy.world

        Also a feature request, would there be a special event when the user clicks on the submit button? It’s like onComment() except it works only for the person who submits their own comment.