Hallo everyone I've searched around and couldn't find a solution for this one:
I keep my blog at http://thetwilightkid.tiddlyspot.com/ It's default view is a number of tiddlers (''posts''), arranged chronologically. Each of them contains one, or more, embedded media players (wmp, flash, real), under a nested slider tipped ''open / close player'', which, by the way, I hope you'll enjoy listening to. The problem: if a visitor opens a player at the bottom of the page and then decides to open another one at the top, he/she'll have to scroll the entire document up and down looking for the first player, in order to close it, so as to avoid listening to nonsense produced by both players being open at the same time. SinglePageModePlugin would not be an option in my case, as I'm interested in having all tiddlers open at all times, so that a user could listen to a stream while reading the other posts at the same time. The Question: Is it possible to send tiddler content from the main page - display area (ie from each post) directly to the MainMenu Bar? To be more specific: can you get the tiddler content under the nested slider button (open/ close player) to open in a fixed area in the MainMenu Bar? or, having created separate tiddlers with media players in them, is it possible to have tiddly-links to them (inside the ''posts'' tiddlers), that would open to a fixed target area placed in the MainMenu Bar? That area would then act as a ''universal'' media player area - a sort of a widget, so to speak, inside which one stream would be open at a time, according to the visitors selection from the posts area. I've setup a test page trying to demonstrate what I'm talking about at http://thetwilightkid.r.tiddlyspot.com/ (password: 12345), where an iframe, named and id'd ''PlayerTarget'' is inserted into a tiddler with the same name. (instructions: http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com/#TargetIframe). The PlayerTarget tiddler is then inserted into the MainMenu by adding the line <span id='PlayerTarget' refresh='content' tiddler='PlayerTarget'></ span> into the MainMenu section of the PageTemplate. The MainMenu is then set as fixed by adding the line position:fixed !important; in the appropriate section of the StyleSheet so it ''floats'' along with the the page and is always visible. That way you can get players to open in the display area, by setting links to them to open in the target frame, provided the media players are embeded in pages hosted outside the tiddlywiki file. (see the links play Kendra Smith_external and play Sofia Zerva_external in the ''PlayerTest'' tiddler). And that is of course a major problem: it undermines the tiddlywiki autonomy and simplicity I fell in love with in the first place, as one has to exit the tw environment and is in need of external applications (html editors) to set up and format separate web pages that look ok in the main tiddlywiki page (fonts, colors etc) and external hosting services to host these pages, which may or may not always work and so on. Plus: the iframe approach has problems of it's own if the tw contains other iframes, as mine does: the player pages will sometimes open in another Firefox tab and not in the target area and the iframes will quite often open the wrong startup page, and not the one they're set to, both for no apparent (or at least not apparent to me), reason. Besides, as I found out having already written the previous paragraph, this approach doesn't really work if you need nested sliders in your mainmenu. You can get the target area to display media players hosted outside the tiddlywiki file. But you can't use the mainmenu nested sliders (Timeline, Music and Resources in my case) cause each time you do the media player page in the target frame gets refreshed and everyone gets to listen track 1 of each stream. For ever. I've set the target frame at a very low height to show just that. Setting links to the desired tiddler content using the each tiddlers permalink ( see the links play Kendra Smith_permalink and play Sofia Zerva_permalink in the Player Test tiddler) doesn't really work either cause it opens the entire tw page and not the specific content in the target area, rendering it unusable. Plus the permalink approach only allows you to open one permalink per session (if you open one, none of the others will open in the same session). So the whole problem would be how to get the Player Test tiddler links Kendra Smith Sofia Zerva or the buttons open / close Kendra Smith player open / close Sofia Zerva player to open in the PlayerTarget tiddler / iframe that's embedded in the MainMenu Bar or, possibly, in some other, non iframe dependent, display area that would be fixed into the MainMenu Bar. Really sorry this had to be this long. And since this is my first post in the group, thank you all for all the advice I took from it over the last couple of years. Being in total ignorance of javascript (or any other coding or scripting language for that matter) this group's been a treasure vault for the tw world. Thanks sklpns --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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