Tips and Tricks for Building Tulip Apps

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Hi @danielpomeranz,

this is a great start. I like it :balloon:

I have two additions for the second one (jumping to a table).

  • Clicking the middle mouse Key always opens the link in a new tab (no context menu needed). If you hold shift while using the middle mouse key, it will open in front instead of in back

  • If you use Edge as a Browser, you can right click and choose to open in split screen. Then you have your table next to the App and you can resize the areas. On the top right you find a menu (ā€¦) to switch to a new tab or close the split screenā€¦

The one with the distribute widgets is one I donā€™t like, because it behaves weird. When the widgets are not equal sized, the distribution is not for equal gaps (as MS Office behaves) but for equal distance from the top left corners. That makes them partially overlapping and partially having huge gapsā€¦

Edit: This is a Trick, I often use and you might want to mention it:

If there is some calculation, that could need some bug fixing later or can get a bit special or so, I prefer adding a calculation step.
So the Button trigger is only a transformation to this calculation step, there I have ā€œon step enter triggersā€ and a transformation to a target step.
This has some benefits:

  • you can separate the precalculation and main calculations easily (preset in the button calculation on the step)
  • you have a Notes area on the step for these calculations only
  • you can copy the triggers from and to other widget triggers (workaround because they are no longer button level triggers)
  • you can show a message on the step, that will only be visible if something went wrong (otherwise you will never see the step)
    -ā€¦

What do you think?