Hi David, I'm glad the quick integration was helpful. I suggest we move beyond that but take a little time to discuss exactly which functionality and behaviour we want. After which I can help identify the necessary bits and even tweak things if necessary.
Agreed on the dropzones, I never use them. So the functionality you want is: - shift click to open in the second story - shift click edit button to open in second story in edit template? - divert buttons A couple of other things to consider: - the second story is currently set to classic storyview as there were issues with the one you are using for TiddlyBlink. This allows for more than one tiddler to be open in the second story. Is that OK or do you want to limit that to one? Perhaps allow more tiddlers but have a different view template that makes it easier to fold them? - I personally like the idea of being able to hide the second story even if there is a tiddler(s) open it, and be able to restore it later and pick up where you were. Is this behaviour something you want? I sometimes use the second story a bit like a "to do" list and like being able to come back to it when needed. Also if you give me a little time, I can go through the components we would be adding to TiddlyBlink to see if they can be optimized or cleaned up. As I mentioned I wrote this when first getting to know TW5 and I am sure there are tricks I missed and core improvements since that we can leverage. I am happy to help just please keep in mind that my schedule is a bit crazy at the moment, as I am volunteering at the local hospital. So I go from having a fair bit of time to some very busy days. Keep in mind that everything about the appearance of the story, the settings at which it becomes visible etc is all done via CSS which we can customize as much as necessary to fit your workflow and vision. Perhaps we can look up some screen resolution stats to see what a good cut off point for showing two stories should be. But I also feel like with a horizontal resolution of less than 1270, there just isn't enough screen space for two stories. You could maybe push it down to 1024 but then show the sidebar overlapping the second story? The idea being to show it when needed and otherwise keep it hidden. Note that the divert buttons are already in that prototype I posted, they just aren't visible until two stories are active, which from what I remember is purely css based. Making that visible at all times would therefore not be difficult. $:/_sq/Stories/divertTiddlerMacro I haven't looked into packaging things as a plugin for TW5 but if necessary we can go that route. Alternatively creating a button people can drag is easy. We either tag all the tiddlers or just use a filter as below: <$button class="tc-tag-label tc-btn-invisible" dragFilter="[prefix[$:/_sq/Stories]] $:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions $:/config/_sq/Stories/story2 $:/config/Tiddlers/TitleLinks $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/options/sidebarlayout">Drag me to install</$button> Button widgets support a dragFilter attribute so we can make the payload for drag and drop whatever we need it to be. Regards, Saq On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 5:55:54 PM UTC+2, David Gifford wrote: > > I agree with Diego, the TiddlyBlink with two columns, for those using > laptops, is the way to go. Coincidentally, it means you could have a list > of links in the parallel tab, and two story columns, so THREE tiddlers open > side by side. > > Also, I think you said it, and I just want to concur, the drop zones are > superfluous and unnecessary if you have shift-click and divert buttons. > > I would like to update TiddlyBlink with this, or else make a special > version of TiddlyBlink for this. But I want users to be able to drag it in > with a tag pill into their own files. Would I need to tag each of those > tiddlers individually? Or could this be a plugin? > > Also, what would be the optimal settings so that most laptop users would > see two columns upon arriving? I had to change it to 1270 to see them > because your files appear as one column for me. But would 1270 be > sufficient for most users? > > Finally, what tiddlers would be needed for the divert buttons? I like that > functionality. > > This is really great, Saq. You sure came back with a grand gesture of > generosity and genius! > > On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 9:57:39 AM UTC-5, Saq Imtiaz wrote: >> >> For those that are interested, here a few variations to play with that I >> hope you might find useful. These are all quick integrations that will >> hopefully serve as a starting point for anyone that finds this useful. >> >> - Alternate behaviour where the second story is automatically shown when >> there is at least one tiddler open it. Shift click a tiddler link: >> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/two-story-alt.html >> >> The above behaviour applies to the next two as well: >> >> - TiddlyBlink with a substory in the parallel tab: >> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/tiddlyblink-with-tab-story.html >> >> - TiddlyBlink with two parallel stories (not in a tab): >> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/tiddlyblink-two-story-saq.html >> >> Original version of my two story implementation: >> http://sq-twostories.tiddlyspot.com/ >> >> Regards, >> Saq >> > -- 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/12b390ee-4d1b-470e-976c-bb0fe4e827a0%40googlegroups.com.
