Hi David What you are trying to accomplish sounds very nice and usefull indeed... Eric (TiddlyTools) has made a nice newsapplet for TiddlyTools updates and in the UnaMesa applicationform http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://academy.unamesa.org/Application&usg=AFQjCNEq7IMewKZYys2ZCE-eot-IUj57jw he added a button to different tiddlers: the "apply now" button, which seems to overflow the boundaries of a normal tiddler.. I recon you could use it as a template for all sorts of buttons...
I've made my own version of Erics quicknotes transclusion and put it permanently inside the right sidebar here: http://notestormproject.tiddlyspot.com/#NewNote (You'll have to click edit online to see the "newNote" button - and insert a username to edit) I'm sure it's possible to tweak the quicknotes transclusion to always edit the same tiddler and put the transclusion anywhere - as I did in a nested slider or as a popup (maybe using Eric's ShowPopup transclusion) or whatever. Next challenge would be to find a place to wikify it's content - again it could be a slide, a popup or even a moveable panel, which you could place anywhere you like (needs Eric's moveablePanelPlugin + panelmanager). Eric (TiddlyTools) has made a "quickstartdocument" basics.html, which has some nicely placed div elements - his storymenu and the goto- searchbox are both well documented in the pagetemplate and in the StyleSheet. - please investigate: http://tiddlytools.com/quickstart/basics.html If you want complete control of where every element on the page - try out his moveable.html - it's really great!! http://tiddlytools.com/quickstart/moveable.html regards Måns Mårtensson On 3 Jan., 05:56, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mario > > Thank you so much for your very detailed explanation. Ask a lot of > questions, and you get a lot of answers! :-) You do a wonderful job > with explaining things very clearly, as I also see by the > documentation in your a-pm sites. I've visited there before and am > interested in looking further at using TW as a presentation tool. > > Let me see if I can be just a little bit more explicit about my > "tiddler in a div". I think I have a good grasp of the PageLayout and > ViewTemplate and the StyleSheetLayout in TW. I also can use > transclusion (it's a lot of fun!) to bring content from one tiddler > into another. So far so good. > > Now here's the scenario: Suppose I want a fixed box to appear > somewhere on the page to display news, announcements, an image, or > whatever content it may be (could be anything, really). I can create > the box by adding a div to the PageLayout in the appropriate place, > and style and position it with CSS in the StyleSheet. I can transclude > the content of SomeTiddler into that box using something like: > > <div id="someDiv" macro="tiddler someTiddler"></div> > > Of course what I get with that is only the *content portion* of the > transcluded tiddler. I do not get the toolbar, the title, the > dateline, or the tag elements. What I am hoping to do is to display a > complete, normal-looking tiddler with all of its parts in a div > somewhere else on the page other than the normal "story" (is that the > right word?). If I can't get all of the elements, I would at least > like to be able to display the title of the tiddler within the div > along with the tiddler contents. The closest I have gotten is to put > this in the someTiddler content: > > {{title{This will look like the title}}} /% Temporary title hack %/ > This is the normal content of the tiddler. blah blah blah > > Using transclusion in the div shown above, this displays a tiddler > title and tiddler content, but the title is not actually the real > title of the tiddler, just whatever title is typed in to the first > line. Of course there may be situations where this is useful, but I'd > still like to know how to pull the actual title of the tiddler into > the div. > > By the way, editing the contents within the div is not necessary, > since someTiddler can be opened and edited easily in the normal story. > I'm just trying to get the display of someTiddler and all of its > elements to appear in the div. > > Hopefully this is a little better focused than my first posting. > Thanks for all your help! > > David > > On Jan 2, 2:02 pm, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > The PageTemplate defines the overall structure of the page. > > *PageTemplate:displayArea:tiddlerDisplay .. is responsible for the > > tiddler stuff > > > The tiddler display is defined in the ViewTemplate > > *ViewTemplate: > > toolbar .. defines the tiddler toolbar with edit, close ... > > title .. defines the tiddler title > > subtitle .. modifier, date ... > > ... > > viewer .. "macro='view text wikified' renders the tiddler content > > > The style definitions are in StyleSheetLayout which is a "protected / > > shadow" tiddler which defines the default values > > If you want to make changes, use StyleSheet to define your values. > > > On Jan 2, 1:33 am, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've dug through these posts but I'm still not clear on this. I want > > > to put a div somewhere on my PageTemplate and have one single tiddler > > > appear in that div. I can get the contents of the tiddler to do so, > > > but I can't seem to get the other elements (such as the title and the > > > date line) to appear also. > > > As I mentioned above, if you want to have titel, modifieer, date .. it > > needs title, subtitel div also. > > > >I've seen bits here and there about the > > > with: params, but I'm still not clear on the syntax. Editing is not > > > necessary in the div element, just rendering the tiddler and all of > > > its parts as it would appear in the main story. > > > I think it need a new / extended viewTemplate > > > > Also, I'm not clear on whether there is any difference between > > > <div id="someDiv" macro="tiddler someTiddler"></div> > > > macro= "anyMacro anyMacroParameter" .. will execute the anyMacro with > > its anyMacroParameters, if the content is rendered by the core. > > > > or > > > <div id="someDiv" tiddler="someTiddler"></div> > > > eg: <div id='mainMenu' refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div> > > if the tiddler='MainMenu' is changed/edited the div id='mainMenu' will > > be refreshed automatically by the core. > > > > And at the risk of asking too many questions at once, the standard > > > layout in PageTemplate uses several divs that do not have an obvious > > > function on their own, such as #mainMenu, #sidebar and #displayArea. > > > the div ids are used by the core. the default style is defined in > > StyleSheetLayout. If you want to change it use StyleSheet which > > overwrites StyleSheetLayout. > > > > Are these just wrappers used for positioning their containing > > > elements, or does the core code or plugins expect them to be there for > > > a specific purpose? > > > you can remove most of them in PageTemplate if you want. But I would > > suggest to hide them if you don't need them. Because in the future you > > may want them back :) There are a lot of plugins/transclusions [1] > > which can be used. > > > > Thanks for giving up part of your holiday to help me with this. Happy > > > New Year! > > > A Happy New Year > > > I made a step by step howTo which deals with plugins and some aspects > > of the TW layout. May be it can answere some questions. [2-4] > > > AND: If you tell us a little more details about your "permanent" > > tiddler. What it should do, or display and where it should appear, may > > be, there is already a solution. > > > regards Mario > > [1]http://a-pm.tiddlyspot.com ... see the top menue > > > see:http://www.tiddlytools.com.. search for "transclusion" > > > [2]http://a-pm-part1.tiddlyspot.com... start of a 3 part howto > > [3]http://a-pm-part2.tiddlyspot.com... inserting some additional > > plugis + StyleSheet + Template > > [4]http://a-pm-part3.tiddlyspot.com... 3rd part of the howto -- 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.
