[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
If you haven't already considered it, but something clod based like Google Docs is intended for possible collaboration over the web so it is fairly easy to include it in a TW (eg via an iframe). Edit- permissions are set from within the service itself. :-) On Apr 17, 10:42 pm, Måns humam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Skye And sklpns...thnks for those directions about OpenOfficeI´ll check that out imediately. I've just tried it with Iceweasel (Firefox on Debian) LibreOffice on Debian Squeeze (Linux) - It behaves as if it *should* work - opens a new tab and blanks the browser window etc - however I'm still not getting it to show a doc or docx documents... It would be quite fantasic, so I keep on trying... I wonder if the much lighter yet very capable AbiWord might be able to do the trick And in fact I starting to use TW itself as my presentation package which makes life even easier...and TW as a presenter has some great advantages.. I followed many of your questions related to your work with TW as a presenter.. Will you consider to publish an example of what you've accomplished at some point?? I believe it would be very usefull for everyone here... There is some demand for predesigned/taylored webapps based on TiddlyWiki - and I believe that examples, which have proven their quality in real life use, ought to find their way to these threads ... I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on how TiddlyWiki as a presenter has some great advantages - and (if possible) with TW- examples... Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Hi all I use a lot TW to link local editable files (CAD, pictures...) FileDropPlugin is my best tool Your TW should be then at the root level of your files regards Julien On Apr 16, 4:30 pm, Måns humam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Julie Is there a way to have TiddlyWiki open a Word file directly from the local folder where someone can click on the file and have it open automatically (not save as)? Eric madehttp://www.tiddlytools.com/#ShowLocalDirectorywhich is very capable of browsing files and directories (in Windows and Linux - I guess it will work on a Mac as well).. When you click a file link - it will try to open it in an iframe. It works well for images and plain textfiles - and as Skye says, some browsers support pdf's as well... If you want to open an application (Word for example) directly from your TW there's a plugin for that as well (http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html#Lau... ), however the macro parameter needs some tweaking to open a file with an application - and I'm no expert You'll have to test it out yourself to find out which parameters are neccesary... A combination of ShowLocalDirectory LaunchApplicationPlugin (w. automatic recognition of mime-types would be awesome...) Happy hacking :-) Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
hey all this might be of some use as far as linking to files / folders within a tw goes (at least under win xp) http://blog.verg.es/2007/08/sendto-clipboard-coolness-tiddlywiki.html it creates two new items in the Send To menu (accessible with right click on the desired file in windows explorer). The first (clipboard - file url) copies the file (or folder) url to the clipboard so it can then be pasted to tiddler as a link to the selected file/folder. it can also be customized to one's liking: in my case I've set a target attribute in the .hta file code, so that all the linked files open within an i-frame embedded in the tw. @skye maybe exporting open office files to pdf just for the shake of making them browser readable could be avoided. For me the following seem to work: in the open office options menu (think you can find that in any of the oo applications) there's a tab called network or internet (can't say for sure as mine's not an english installation). Under that you should see the option to use the open office plugin for firefox by checking the relevant checkbox. Having done that, in the firefox options menu and in the applications tab make sure that all the open office related entries (or the ones you want i suppose) are set to open with the open office plugin (if they aren't try setting them manually using the scroll menu on the right). This should result in open office files being viewed within firefox. If the relevant links are set to open in an iframe embedded in the tw one doesn't even have to exit the tw environment at all. Only problem is that recent firefox versions have some visibility problems with open office files, especially within an i-frame, but nothing too dreary I suppose. In any case and until this gets somehow resolved I;m using ff portable version 3.6.24 for a project that relies heavily on showing oo files within an i-frame. I'm suspecting that showing the files in a new tab would not present major visibility issues. Furthermore: these guys here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=d5644fc05b95a88eea5d17e70d694d87t=94384 explain how to use the open office firefox plugin to also view Microsoft office files within firefox! (see both pages of the thread) hope this makes sense and is somewhat useful cheers sklpns -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Hi sklpns e Mans Hey guys thanks for those suggestions. As Mans said the LaunchApplicationPLugin is quite a handy plugin and I have it working well. As my students normally access the courses through DropboxI can put applications that they may not have installed (like Freemind mind-mapping) in a shared Dropbop folder and have LauchAppsopen itso now they can run the program, even though they dont have it installed in their computer. And sklpns...thnks for those directions about OpenOfficeI´ll check that out imediately. Although I am not worried about using the iframe/ pdf route...remember the TW is to be viewed by students...so a PDF is great for them...and at the same time means that they cant mess around with my original presentationso suits me. And in fact I starting to use TW itself as my presentation package which makes life even easier...and TW as a presenter has some great advantages.. Thanks Skye On 17 abr, 11:00, sklpns skl...@gmail.com wrote: hey all this might be of some use as far as linking to files / folders within a tw goes (at least under win xp) http://blog.verg.es/2007/08/sendto-clipboard-coolness-tiddlywiki.html it creates two new items in the Send To menu (accessible with right click on the desired file in windows explorer). The first (clipboard - file url) copies the file (or folder) url to the clipboard so it can then be pasted to tiddler as a link to the selected file/folder. it can also be customized to one's liking: in my case I've set a target attribute in the .hta file code, so that all the linked files open within an i-frame embedded in the tw. @skye maybe exporting open office files to pdf just for the shake of making them browser readable could be avoided. For me the following seem to work: in the open office options menu (think you can find that in any of the oo applications) there's a tab called network or internet (can't say for sure as mine's not an english installation). Under that you should see the option to use the open office plugin for firefox by checking the relevant checkbox. Having done that, in the firefox options menu and in the applications tab make sure that all the open office related entries (or the ones you want i suppose) are set to open with the open office plugin (if they aren't try setting them manually using the scroll menu on the right). This should result in open office files being viewed within firefox. If the relevant links are set to open in an iframe embedded in the tw one doesn't even have to exit the tw environment at all. Only problem is that recent firefox versions have some visibility problems with open office files, especially within an i-frame, but nothing too dreary I suppose. In any case and until this gets somehow resolved I;m using ff portable version 3.6.24 for a project that relies heavily on showing oo files within an i-frame. I'm suspecting that showing the files in a new tab would not present major visibility issues. Furthermore: these guys here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=d5644fc05b95a88eea5d17e70d69... explain how to use the open office firefox plugin to also view Microsoft office files within firefox! (see both pages of the thread) hope this makes sense and is somewhat useful cheers sklpns -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Hi Skye And sklpns...thnks for those directions about OpenOfficeI´ll check that out imediately. I've just tried it with Iceweasel (Firefox on Debian) LibreOffice on Debian Squeeze (Linux) - It behaves as if it *should* work - opens a new tab and blanks the browser window etc - however I'm still not getting it to show a doc or docx documents... It would be quite fantasic, so I keep on trying... I wonder if the much lighter yet very capable AbiWord might be able to do the trick And in fact I starting to use TW itself as my presentation package which makes life even easier...and TW as a presenter has some great advantages.. I followed many of your questions related to your work with TW as a presenter.. Will you consider to publish an example of what you've accomplished at some point?? I believe it would be very usefull for everyone here... There is some demand for predesigned/taylored webapps based on TiddlyWiki - and I believe that examples, which have proven their quality in real life use, ought to find their way to these threads ... I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on how TiddlyWiki as a presenter has some great advantages - and (if possible) with TW- examples... Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Thanks, Skye! I appreciate your response and at least I know how to make it find the file. :) I was hoping to do something in Word and have it open it because the file needs to stay editable, so maybe I'm going to try another avenue. On Saturday, April 14, 2012 2:15:49 PM UTC-4, skye riquelme wrote: Hi Julie I am not an expert, but maybe I can shed some light on this. Firstly, your syntax is ok. But the file address is not. You can use relative file addresses like /SubPasta/file.html - which gets the file.html in the sub-folder SubPasta...ou maybe ../ BrotherPasta/file.html - which gets the file.html from a folder parellel to one containing your TW. OR you can use full adresses...something like file:///C:/Users/Name/Documents/TWFolder/ file.html (obviously I am using a windows file structure). SO the syntax becomes [[simulation 1|/folderName/file.html]] Secondly. in the above cases your browser (I use FF) will open file.html probably in a new window (depending on your browser settings) because it (the browser) knows about .html files and knows what to do with them. But does your browser know what to do with a .docx file??? You may be able to set your browser settings to recognise this file extension it depends on your browsers ability. For example, as a teacher I work a lot with presentations...but they are a pain in relation to TWas I have yet to figure out how to get FF to understand OpenOffice extensions. So my simple work-around is to export my completed presentations into PDF format. which all (?) browsers know how to read. So I can use [[myPresentation|Folder/ present.pdf]] which opens the PDF file in a separate window. Or, what I normally use is something like htmliframe src=Folder/ present.pdf width=100% height=500/iframe/html which opens the pdf file directly inside the tiddler.so I dont even have to leave the TW environment!!! Hope that is both useful and (at least basically) correct Yours Skye On 13 abr, 11:03, Julie radac...@gmail.com wrote: I've been playing with a code I found somewhere to open a Word file directly, which looks like this: [[Simulation 1|file//Simulation1.docx]] where Simulation 1 before the | is the Tiddler text and the information after file is the document I want to open. When I do this (with or without the extension), I get the error: File not found. Firefox can't find the file. Is there a way to have TiddlyWiki open a Word file directly from the local folder where someone can click on the file and have it open automatically (not save as)? Thanks in advance for your help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/-/behAsCLbbLcJ. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Hi Julie Is there a way to have TiddlyWiki open a Word file directly from the local folder where someone can click on the file and have it open automatically (not save as)? Eric made http://www.tiddlytools.com/#ShowLocalDirectory which is very capable of browsing files and directories (in Windows and Linux - I guess it will work on a Mac as well).. When you click a file link - it will try to open it in an iframe. It works well for images and plain textfiles - and as Skye says, some browsers support pdf's as well... If you want to open an application (Word for example) directly from your TW there's a plugin for that as well ( http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html#LaunchApplicationPlugin ), however the macro parameter needs some tweaking to open a file with an application - and I'm no expert You'll have to test it out yourself to find out which parameters are neccesary... A combination of ShowLocalDirectory LaunchApplicationPlugin (w. automatic recognition of mime-types would be awesome...) Happy hacking :-) Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: Opening Word file directly from local folder in TiddlyWiki?
Hi Julie I am not an expert, but maybe I can shed some light on this. Firstly, your syntax is ok. But the file address is not. You can use relative file addresses like /SubPasta/file.html - which gets the file.html in the sub-folder SubPasta...ou maybe ../ BrotherPasta/file.html - which gets the file.html from a folder parellel to one containing your TW. OR you can use full adresses...something like file:///C:/Users/Name/Documents/TWFolder/ file.html (obviously I am using a windows file structure). SO the syntax becomes [[simulation 1|/folderName/file.html]] Secondly. in the above cases your browser (I use FF) will open file.html probably in a new window (depending on your browser settings) because it (the browser) knows about .html files and knows what to do with them. But does your browser know what to do with a .docx file??? You may be able to set your browser settings to recognise this file extension it depends on your browsers ability. For example, as a teacher I work a lot with presentations...but they are a pain in relation to TWas I have yet to figure out how to get FF to understand OpenOffice extensions. So my simple work-around is to export my completed presentations into PDF format. which all (?) browsers know how to read. So I can use [[myPresentation|Folder/ present.pdf]] which opens the PDF file in a separate window. Or, what I normally use is something like htmliframe src=Folder/ present.pdf width=100% height=500/iframe/html which opens the pdf file directly inside the tiddler.so I dont even have to leave the TW environment!!! Hope that is both useful and (at least basically) correct Yours Skye On 13 abr, 11:03, Julie radac...@gmail.com wrote: I've been playing with a code I found somewhere to open a Word file directly, which looks like this: [[Simulation 1|file//Simulation1.docx]] where Simulation 1 before the | is the Tiddler text and the information after file is the document I want to open. When I do this (with or without the extension), I get the error: File not found. Firefox can't find the file. Is there a way to have TiddlyWiki open a Word file directly from the local folder where someone can click on the file and have it open automatically (not save as)? Thanks in advance for your help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
