Tinderbox for Mac

Action Code:

• The List.size() operator failed to count empty elements in lists.
• Code colouring: when editing code, var declarations such as var:number x=5; are coloured green. However, if the type of the variable was string, the word 'string' was coloured blue because there is also a string() operator. Variables of type 'date' and 'list' suffered a related issue. This has been corrected.
• Code colouring: in code fields, illegal var expressions are no longer highlighted as keywords. For example, 'var:tensor' is ignored because 'tensor' is not a valid data type.
• Code colouring: in code fields, the "if" in operators such as sum_if() is no longer coloured as if it were an if() statement.
• Compound designators that refer to notes which have parentheses in their names are now handled correctly. For example, $Color(nextSibling(/Romans/Cato (the younger))) is now handled correctly.
• When evaluating an expression with a conditional that lacks an else clause, Tinderbox parsed the token following the if statement incorrectly.
• Evaluating $DisplayName could easily deadlock or crash if the DisplayExpression referred to $DisplayName. Tinderbox catches this in the most common case: $DisplayName(this). There remain problems when referring to the $DisplayName of other notes if those notes themselves refer back to this note's $DisplayName, but that is likely to be less common.
• Some actions, like .substr(), anticipate numeric arguments. In the past, these were unable to extract their numeric values from list variables. These operators should now work as expected.
• .extract() could crash if the text string could not be represented in utf8 or if the pattern was invalid regex.
• collect(…) allows more indirection. For example, collect(siblings($MyString),$Name) is now supported. (Issue #4543 fixed)

AI/Natural Language Processing:

• Revised the AI Built-In Hints text as well as the tool descriptions visible to AI clients in order to provide more useful information to AI users.
• Improved MCP detection that an instance of Tinderbox is already running, and improved error messages in MCP-tinderbox logs.
• MCP could disconnect if its output pipe filled up. That will not happen again.
• MCP: Tinderbox now adopts protocol version 2025-03-26 rather than 2024-11-05.

Attribute Browser view:

• Standard system colours (for light or dark modes) are used for drawing the Attribute Browser; the view should behave better in Dark Mode.
• The view maintains an index of its rows, significantly improving performance.
• Selecting notes for the browser is once again performed in the background.
• When using the Font Picker in attribute browser, the picker’s font size reflects the actual size in use.
• The text field in Attribute Browser is better aligned with the URL button.
• When using tabs to switch from Attribute Browser to a conventional view, if the slider position is moved in the tab switch, the clicked tab could be converted to become an attribute browser. This should no longer occur.
• The TbxBinPopover for attribute browser now adjusts its height to avoid obscuring more of the window than is necessary.

Full list of changes available here