TcMenu direction

[davetcc]

Importantly, TcMenu is being maintained, we need it for our projects. We've been quiet for a few months because we've been building out a new web based designer, and major improvements to the library that go hand in hand .

See https://www.thecoderscorner.com/team-blog/thoughts/tcmenu-designer-turbo-a-new-era/

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The web based designer: https://designer.thecoderscorner.com

[davetcc]

Release 4.5.1 of web designer was released this morning, it fixes a problem with all-in-one mode. This is a new mode where all the plugin code is written into the project's menu.cpp/h files. I suspect many will immediately move to this new way of working.

[davetcc]

Whereas we got on average one or two releases of desktop designer a year, I've done two releases in the same day! We're now on 4.5.2 with a fix in the library for fluent menus. I've now started rebuilding some of the examples from the Turbo web designer, and I have to say it has even shocked me just how much more usable it is.

[davetcc]

NOTE Using All-In-One or Fluent API mode requires at least TcMenu Library 4.5.x

[davetcc]

Everything is now brought up-to-date library wise, the latest released version of TcMenuLib is 4.5.0, which includes the dynamic rom and fluent menu API. I've gone through all the libraries making sure the right version is published, so both Arduino and PlatformIO should be correct for all within the next few hours!

[davetcc]

So, the last of the large changes has been done. We've left the documentation as open source (just as it was before) but moved it back to the main site: thecoderscorner.com. Why? Having documentation spread across multiple sites was both difficult for new users to work out where to find things, and it was also difficult to maintain. The template was out of date, and did not work properly with newer versions of Hugo. It now gets pulled in and built with the main site.

Further, with designer now a web application running on our site (it could not run on GitHub pages) it makes more sense to have everything on one site.

From today, all GitHub pages will redirect back the thecoderscorner.com, but you can still raise PRs against the documentation just as before.

On top of the above, there's no way to administer pages on GitHub pages.