Eric,
Once again inspired by you work, I recall that on https://www.w3schools.com/ a
search is "enhanced by Google" and the results appear in a drop down.
I wonder if we could develop this for tiddlywiki?
Regards
Tony
On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 10:00:56 AM UTC+10, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 1:17:55 PM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote:
>>
>> This might help get you in the right direction:
>> \define google(term)
>> <a href={{{ [[https://www.google.com?q=$(currentTiddler)$+$term$]split[
>> ]join[+]] }}} target="_blank">$term$</a>
>> \end
>>
>
> Here's another version that doesn't need to define a macro and also
> provides an input field for the search term:
> <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/google" tag="input" placeholder="enter search
> text" default="" />
> <$button message="tm-open-external-window" param={{{ [[
> https://www.google.com?q=]] +[addsuffix<currentTiddler>] +[addsuffix[+]]
> +[addsuffix{$:/temp/google}] +[split[ ]join[+]] }}}>
> search
> </$button>
>
> 1) Define a tiddler (e.g., "Google") containing the above code
> 2) Create any other tiddler containing the following:
> {{||Google}}
>
> How it works:
> * As with the previous macro version, the desired URL is constructed using
> the currentTiddler value
> * Instead of using a macro parameter to insert the search term, and
> $edit-text widget is used to save the term input into a temporary tiddler,
> $:/temp/google
> * The contents of $:/temp/google are appended to the constructed URL
> * A $button widget is used to open a new 'external' browser window with
> the fully constructed URL
>
> To use it:
> * Instead of invoking a macro (i.e., <<google ...>>), transclusion is used
> (i.e., {{||Google}} to display the input field and button
> * Note the use of || in the transclusion. This allows the *context* of
> the containing tiddler to be applied, which means that the value of
> currentTiddler is the title of the tiddler in which the transclusion
> occurs, rather than the title of the tiddler in which the input field and
> button are defined.
>
> Again, let me know how it goes...
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
>
>
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