Thanks Eric. You have solved the problem and anticipated any further requirements I was thinking about.
I am exploring Pattern languages using a TW (thanks to FND's delicious links, and Mr Mahoff's enthusiasm.) I aim to clarify the presentation of the ideas using patterns in the context of the text and the TW inwhich it is embeded I thought that help might be useful in the toolbar. Alex 2009/8/26 Eric Shulman <[email protected]> > > > 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 > > > > -- http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
