Hi Chris My idea of porting Twine to TiddlyWiki is a bit pretentious I know... (especially because I'm no programmer myself) You have made a very elegant and nice (crossplatform!!) gui in python, which works very well as it is now.
My point is that TiddlyWiki seems to be able to do *almost* all the things you're Twine does already. And I'm very "into" using TiddlyWiki for as many things as possible... I have designed/tranlated/modified all sorts of writing tools and notetakingvariants of tiddlywiki for students and collegues and the idea of having a TiddlyWiki which is dedicated to hypertextwriting (which it already is - to some extent) is a very compelling one... (Ybabel (Yoann) has made a plugin Ideia, which needs just a little work to be very usefull - and here's an oppertunity to "show-off") I must digg deeper into the "inner workings" of Twine/Twee and how to build these hypertextstories, with code: <<options>> history (backwards - forward) etc - to make my own TiddlyWiki-version. Again the whole idea of doing this is to end up with a tool, simple enough - and as "transparent" as possible, making it accessible for someone new to TiddlyWiki to interact with... What strikes me as an advantage using TW is the fact that TiddlyWiki offers an oppertunity to make the documentation, the writing and the publishing of hypertextstories - very interactive, because every phase of it could be done in one place - in one TiddlyWiki document (a single html) - just shifting "interface" by themeswitches... Thank you very much for answering my post - and if it has made any inspirational thought pass the mind of a gifted javasciptprogrammer out in the TwVerse (or a HyperscriptStoryWriter) - I would be happy to put some work into the devellopment of a Twine for TiddlyWiki... Ps: When Twine is ready for translation - I'm ready to make a Danish tranlation, which I and my students could use - as soon as possible. (My TiddlyWikiTwineVision isn't the most important one - it's the writing of hypertextstories in my own language which has first priority ...) YS Måns Mårtensson On 3 Okt., 22:22, Chris Klimas <[email protected]> wrote: > To help explain things a little further, I developed two templates > based on the TiddlyWiki source code for displaying hypertext stories. > One is called Sugarcane, the other Jonah. These only have the relevant > parts of the TW API included, are designed to be used in a read-only > mode, and have some extra macros to help authors. It sounds like it > would be relatively easy to use exportTiddlersPlugin to transform a > regular TiddlyWiki into Sugarcane or Jonah format. > > The other part of the setup is a GUI desktop app named Twine that > manipulates linked nodes and can save output to Sugarcane, Jonah, or > regular TiddlyWiki format. It displays a story file as a map, so you > can see the structure of the story graphically. It's not really a > general-purpose tool, though it could be used as such in theory. I > think Måns is talking about the possibility of porting the app, which > is written in Python and uses a cross-platform GUI library, to a pure > JavaScript solution using TiddlyWiki macros. On that score, I don't > know how feasible this idea is. It strikes me as requiring a lot of > work, though, and given that Twine's already cross-platform I don't > see a ton of benefit in it. > > That said -- Twine is open source (as are Sugarcane and Jonah) and I'd > be happy to offer whatever advice/guidance I can to anyone interested > in porting it. > > chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
