Mat/TT, I will keep the details under my hat until I develop the idea in my head a little but I am playing with an idea I call Ghost tiddlers, since Shadows is a term already taken. I am raising it now because it sounds it could for part of these discussions with image layers. My terminology is all mixed up as I explore these ideas.
Ghosts are almost like 3D tiddlers. - Basically you use a namespace such as $:/ghosts under which for every tiddler "tiddlername" you can you can have another tiddler $:/ghosts/tiddlername. - When I finalise my Tiddler Serial Number tools this will also be rename independant. - My idea was so I could annotate the primary tiddler without even editing it, and add number of other cool features. - With appropriate design the number of Ghosts for a single tiddler could be infinite. - The serial number can have a depth/layer/level number SN/0 SN/1... and even this could be reordered with drag and drop. - The result the user can see can be programed in the view template as desired from a combination of the depth tiddlers. Why mention them now? - Such a facility would be helpful for text, however with smart design a ghost/or layer tiddler could have a background, that's displayed behind the foreground content, and one could edit the image on the midground tiddler. Which layer is for edit now could be a simple switch like layered image editors. - Keeping such a design in mind provides guidance to the way we should provide an image editor for tiddlers, where the result has an invisible background that we could stack layers or include a fixed background. Just thinking Tony On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 4:11:42 AM UTC+11, Mat wrote: > > TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Regarding the issue of being able to "overlay" (I think you are working >> on something like that?). >> > > Actually, that overlay thing <http://overlay.tiddlyspot.com/> is not what > I'm talking about and is not something I'm working on. (The thing I'm > referring to is what I posted about privately to you some weeks back.) But, > regarding layers, I'm *not* sure it is an appropriate solution for > integrating images in the text because if you rearrange the text, you'll > want your image to move accordingly. A layer image would stay fixed, I > assume. > > Now, layers would be really neat for use cases like the above referenced > overlay thing. I created it after some one here described he was an MD and > wanted to doodle on top of x-ray images or something similar. This is an > interesting use case but what I'm after in my OP here is the much more > basic case to just be able to easily type and doodle in the one and same > tiddler as you make notes. > > <:-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a09ad65e-e8f3-4372-b1b5-b6b8b7d888af%40googlegroups.com.
