The past few days have been filled with some exciting new features for AstraNOS.
I am adding things as I am using AstraNOS and certain features are missing.

Changes to the IDE

The IDE received a direct integration of the online help for QooxDoo as well as the ability to run your JS application windows directly from within the IDE.

Creating new application, and dialogs has never been that easy for me. This will be very helpful when I continue to work through the next few training videos for QooxDoo and AstraNOS.

Another add-on to the IDE is the “New Class” menu item which will now bring up the following dialog to select the type of class you want to create.
You can take the IDE for a spin using this link : https://www.AstraNOS.org/MiyamotoMusashi/BattleGround.php?course=1

Changes to the FolderView

Finally I added “Download”, “Copy”, and “Rename” to the context menu items in the Folder View, and “Paste” if you right click on an empty space.

This way you can now use the FolderView to work with files which is faster. Previously you would have to go to the ContentBrowser to achieve the same.

The ContenView is still the main dialog to work on / with files as it supports working on files sitting in your box or DropBox accounts.

Dropbox Kaput :

Well, the ContenView WAS able to use Dropbox, until September this year. Here is DropBox’s announcement :
“In June 2016, we announced the deprecation timeline for API v1. When API v1 is retired in September 2017, any further API v1 calls will fail with a 400 error with the body:”

and sure enough …

Uncaught exception 'Dropbox\Exception_BadRequest' with message 'HTTP status 400
{"error": "v1_retired"}'

So I went ahead and I chose https://github.com/kunalvarma05/dropbox-php-sdk to replace the older library I was using. I am planning in completing the port within the next two days.