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Details of Issue

TrackViews should update in order for aesthetic reasons, ideally. However, when loading the track data, view refreshing happens very sporadically and is sometimes skipped altogether. Will update with more information once I investigate a bit

Helpful Information about Code Surrounding Issue

I don't remember all of the exact details surrounding when/where
TrackView pman.ui.pl.TrackView gets updated, but it's in response to changes made to the Track instance's data field, which is defined in the TrackData2 class. The data fields are loaded onto Track instances by the Player when added to the playback queue, in the addItemList method

keyword-searches performed on entire local media library replace playlist with new one built from search results. The new Playlist is supposed to have a backreference to the Playlist it replaced, but that's not working.
Besides that, unloading the user's queue and queuing up Tracks from a search that may yield 1,000s of results and may not have even been intentional is a terrible idea.

results should be displayed within their own discreet listview to preserve the playlist-view, and to allow the results-view to be dismissed or maximized, etc without affecting the user's playlist

There's really a lot of dead code floating about in this project, and it's cluttering the whole application. I need to prune as much of that away as possible, to make it more pleasant/less confusing to navigate the source code. Probably even some performance benefits.
So, goals are:

• Delete source files...
  • for modules that aren't being used ever
  • for modules that have been since replaced, or moved to a different package-path

I should put together a list of paths to files to be removed sometime soon.

(to whom it may concern, this issue description is incomplete, and will be completed soon)

The 'packer' script (located in dist/) is currently not very up-to-date with regards to project structure and resource files. Other than the recent breaking changes to structure, there were already a number of features that were either completely broken (wouldn't successfully execute) or resulted in a broken app at runtime.

Current feature set:

• can handle compilation of haxe source
• can perform post-compilation, pre-execution (postprocessing) tasks
• automates application bundling to generate standalone executables (Windows & Linux)
• automates creation of application installers (Linux only)(Windows issue)

Attempting a keyword-search on the current playback queue will fail and raise an exception

UPDATE

As of most recent release, this has been corrected.

The Windows installer generated by:

# in <pman project root>/dist/
./pack preprocess package installer
# or, even just:
./pack installer

The Goal

The end-goal here is to just generally improve session persistence and restoration, both computationally and visually. Visually, the experience of restoring a previous session is fairly jarring when there's visual media involved, and starts to approach frightening if multiple tabs are also involved. This tantrum will often last for as long as 20-30sec, and then everything normalizes.
I'm pretty confident that all of this weirdness can be fixed with a new algorithm for restoring a serialized session.

The Current Implementation

1. (repeat for each serialized Tab)
   1. create empty Tab
   2. build a media-queue for it
   3. attach restored queue to the blank Tab
   4. find and focus the Tab's active Track
2. shift focus to the active Tab
3. mount 'now-playing' track for playback
4. initiate loading of TrackDatas for all restored tracks, all at once, in alphabetical order

Specification for New Implementation