FR: exposed popover feature api

[Quorafind]

Maybe we need a way to exposed this.plugins.plugins.hoverEdtior.api.createPopover(view, x, y) for creating popover view.

[Taitava]

Hi! 🙂 I'd be interested in this too! I'll try to describe how I'd like to use the API in my plugin, but for that I think it's best for me to first tell shortly about the features of my plugin so you can see how they relate to this.

My plugin Shell commands can be used to execute system commands from Obsidian (via the command palette, hotkeys, or certain automated events) and it can also handle the output of the executed shell commands via a few different ways (e.g. display output in a notification balloon or write to the current file).

One output channel the SC plugin has is Open a file, which reads a file name/path from shell command output and opens it in Obsidian. It supports also optional features such as defining caret position and opening into a new pane.

For example, the following output from a shell command will open a note in a new pane, and place the caret at line 3, column 5:

MyFolder/MyNote.md:3:5:new-pane

(The shell command outputting this can be whatever, e.g. an advanced search script outputting the file name it has found, or just simply an echo command for testing purposes: echo "MyFolder/MyNote.md:3:5:new-pane").

I'd like to include an ability to write e.g. :hover-editor instead of :new-pane to make my plugin call your plugin's API to open the file in a new popover. 🌻

Thank you! I haven't tried this plugin yet, but the demo video looks cool! 🙂👍

Edit: And just a link to a discussion in SC's side about developing support for this: Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands#186 . The suggestion came from @FelipeRearden.

[nothingislost]

Just to follow up. I'm open to this but I'd like to iterate on the plugin a bit more before committing to an official API. I'll be sure to update this issue as we get closer to being ready for that.

[Taitava]

Yea that's the best way to go! Thanks ! 🙂