Hi Eric, Is there an easy way to set FileDropPluginConfig, so that it always links and never embeds -- even for text files? Basically, I just want to drag and drop links to files (preferably with a relative path so that it will work anywhere.) I guess having intelligent drag-and-drop links (e.g. formatted as links for files but as images for images) would be cool, but even just having not to type the path by hand would be a good start.
The concept of embedding files is really cool, but the only benefit over file linking is that its a bit simpler to carry everything as one file on your thumbdrive. Without a synchronization tool (e.g. rsync) it might be a bit tedious to carry along a set of files rather than one file. So .... thinking out loud. What about dragging and dropping a file, which creates a batch file script in the tiddler? Then the actual human being could copy the tiddler out to a bat file (or sh, depending on system), and run the code which would set up directories, copy the files, etc. This would bypass the sensible security limitations on javascript, handing-off the responsibility to a human who, hopefully, knows that its OK to copy file "B" to new location "Z". -- Mark On Feb 9, 8:57 am, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > moderate sized image and got a new tiddler with the following info: > > > plot2.jpg type=image/jpeg, size=128810 bytes, encoded=174431 bytes > > > But every time when I try to open that tiddler, there will be a long > > delay and FF3 will report a unresponsive script. The tiddler will > > eventually open and the full size image show in the tiddler. But this > > is not so usable with even larger size image. > > > Did I missed anything? I read some people also have issues with > > several MB video file. So I guess the embedding process slow it > > down. > > In general, photos and other media files are, for practical use, too > big to embed as base64-encoded content, primarily due to performance > issues. Encoded images are best used for relatively small graphics, > such as icons, logos, and background textures. > > > I wonder if it is possible to NOT embedded the file into a tiddler but > > AttachFilePlugin supports *three* different ways to attach a file: > * embedded base64-encoded data > * a local file/path reference > * a URL > > If there is no embedded data in the attachment tiddler, then the local > path/file is used (if any). If there is no local file information (or > the file does not actually exist), then the attachment falls back to > using a remote URL (if specified). > > There is a Configuration section in FileDropPluginConfig that you can > use to control whether or not *encoded* data will be included in the > attachment tiddler. > > > Since the main headache of using external file are maintaining the > > relative link and file storage. > > Using TiddlyWiki to automatically copy/create new directories and > files in your filesystem is not a good idea: file and directory I/O > functions from javascript are subject to security restrictions > (especially for writing *binary* files), and there are significant > browser-specific and OS-specific limitations that make reliable > implementation extremely difficult. At best, it's a large, complex > chunk of code... at worst, there's just too many ways that the > functions can fail, with the potential for filesystem corruption > (badly formed directories/files) or loss of data (from deleting the > wrong file). > > However, even without automatic manipulation of the external > filesystem, you can still use AttachFilePlugin/FileDropPlugin much as > you have described... except that you will still have to manually > create and maintain the external folder of images, rather than having > the plugin do it for you. > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
