Preview first line of the next verse

charleswilliam

I’ve implemented a feature on the mediaitem.py file that appends the first line of the next verse as a “preview” to the last line of the current verse, except when the current verse type starts with "i" (intro), which in our use case, is used as the "Title" slide.
The preview line is wrapped in {preview}...{/preview} tags so it can be styled differently in the slide renderer.

Now my question is, should I try to make a plugin out of that? Or should I make an official contribution as a proposed feature? Or should I just keep it to myself or whoever requests it here?

There is an issue #118 reported in gitlab for that and I would like to know if this could be a valid contribution.

newidea

Hi Charles,
I'm searching for this feature. We need this function in OpenLP.
How can I use it?

A Plugin would be nice, until it is not implemented.

charleswilliam

I've checked out the project from Gitlab and implemented the feature locally for me.

I was waiting for some feedback from an active developer to see how to oficially contribute with this feature, but I can imagine there is more to it than simply updating the mediaitem.py in the songs plugin and starting a marge request.
I assume I would need to add a setting and than some type of configuration and make it gereral enough that it could cover many use cases, also add the formatting to the default formatting, and so on...

If @raoul or any other mod could would get in touch, I'd love to know how to make the contribution for the version 4.0.
Otherwise I can check to see how to share this with you newidea . But no promises.

-- Edit --

As an alternative, you can manually add the line you want to preview between any kind of annotation, like {preview} Line to preview {/preview} and add add this custom format to your formatting tags like this:

But it is a manual work that will be saved to the song, which I did not want.

charleswilliam

@newidea , since I did not get any answers, I will finisht the implementation of the feature and submit a merge request.
I was almost done, but I am having some challenges on getting the environment to work as I need (for example, the settings are not being saved). I also need to write some tests and so on.
In any case, once the feature is fully implemented, I will submit it to the version 4.0 and update this post.
Please, don't expect it for the next few weeks due to some private commitments, but I will finish it up.