> A 'Help Popup' or link to a "help tiddler' from the toolbar might be a > good way to display the help while they are editing their tiddlers.
To add a custom *popup* to the toolbar, you can use http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ShowPopup This little tiddler isn't a plugin, and it isn't an inline script either... it's just a bit of 'pure' HTML that renders a link with an 'onclick' handler that fires up a TW popup and fills it with content from a specified tiddler. You use it by embedding in in another tiddler, passing 'substitution parameters' via the <<tiddler>> macro syntax, like this: <<tiddler ShowPopup with: TiddlerName label tooltip class width popupclass>> (see ShowPopup tiddler for more details) For your purposes, you want to add the popup link directly into the ViewTemplate, so that it will appear in all tiddlers automatically, without having to embed the above macro into each one individually. To do this, edit the ViewTemplate and locate this line: <div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::ViewToolbar]]'></div> and replace it with: <div class='toolbar'> <span macro='tiddler ShowPopup with: Help help "show help" button'></span> <span macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::ViewToolbar]]'></span> </div> Note: if you want to implement 'context sensitive' help for each tiddler, you could tweak the above to use a 'computed parameter' for the TiddlerName, by writing: <span macro='tiddler ShowPopup with: {{tiddler.title+"Help"}} help "show help" button'></span> Then, for each tiddler in the document, create a second tiddler with an added "Help" suffix, so that when the 'help' link is clicked in tiddler [[SomeTitle]], the popup will automatically display content from the corresponding [[SomeTitleHelp]] tiddler. Of course, this would mean having twice as many tiddlers in the document, so that each one would have a matching [[...Help]] tiddler (and don't even get started about SomeTitleHelpHelp, etc.). Here's a further refinement that adds fallback handling for a document-wide generic [[Help]] tiddler if a corresponding context-sensitive [[...Help]] tiddler does not exist: <span macro='tiddler ShowPopup with: {{ (tiddler&&store.tiddlerExists(tiddler.title+"Help")? tiddler.title:"")+"Help"; }} help "show help" button'></span> That should do it! If you get stuck, let me know... enjoy, -e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
