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View template: Present a single view of all layers according to some rules Tony On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 9:06:55 AM UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > 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/a80a5568-8cd4-45f5-8165-1b4668b209d3%40googlegroups.com.
