On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 5:15:34 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Here's yet another version. This one skips the Google search input page,
and goes directly to the search results.
<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/google" tag="input" placeholder="enter search
text" default="" />
<$vars keywords={{{ [<currentTiddler>] +[addsuffix[+]]
+[addsuffix{$:/temp/google}] +[split[ ]join[+]] }}}>
<$vars URL={{{ [[https://www.google.com/search?q=]]
+[addsuffix<keywords>] }}}>
<$button message="tm-open-external-window" param=<<URL>>>
{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}} </$button>
</$vars>
</$vars>
Note that this version uses $vars widgets to construct the desired search
keywords and the URL before opening the external window.
This was not, strictly speaking, *necessary*, but was done to make the code
more readable.
enjoy,
-e
>
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
> On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 10:00:56 AM UTC+10, Eric Shulman wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 1:17:55 PM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote:
>>>
>>> This might help get you in the right direction:
>>> \define google(term)
>>> <a href={{{ [[https://www.google.com?q=$(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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