Alvin, I see that Tones had offered you a *better* telmiger link than the one I sent. I didn't know about that one; it's more "public-facing" (and explicitly dedicated to the sharing plugins) than the site I had found (which had been shared here at some point earlier in its development).
So please forget the link I posted and use the one Tones posted: https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.html#DetailsWidget On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 10:11:34 AM UTC-5 springer wrote: > Alvin, it's true that telmiger's site has not been made neat for visitors, > and has elements that are distracting. The pop-up reminder/scheduling > window you see is not related to the details widget, but I understand why > you'd be apprehensive. > > Mohammad's plugins, by contrast, are very well-maintained and documented. > You can't go wrong with exploring Shiraz, which has many other functions > beyond the details ("show on demand") function. Shiraz is superb, and I > regularly use several functions in it, especially Dynamic Tables. > > I can no longer recall why I ended up relying on telmiger's details widget > -- it may simply be a matter of what I found and implemented first. (It > also may have been a worry about whether the Shiraz sliders "nest" and/or > have great flexibility in the "guts" of what's shown on demand.) > > Although it's a big effort to convert a large tiddlywiki that relies on > the old "Nested Sliders" syntax, I think you'll be impressed by the > responsiveness of TW5 once you get up and running. Cheers! > > -Springer > On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:54:07 AM UTC-5 Alvin wrote: > >> When I followed the link to DetailsWidget info, Springer, I found this. >> >> [image: screenshot 2020110701.jpg] >> >> I'm not fluent in TW5 yet, so that Save-Button Position box looks >> suspicious. >> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:09 PM springer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Alvin, others will have better answers, but I was in exactly your >>> position a year ago -- a late upgrader with quite a few plugin dependencies >>> worked into about 14 years'-worth of TiddlyWiki Classic projects. (Nested >>> Sliders, and the combination of aliases and Redirect Macro, were core to my >>> workflow.) >>> >>> I couldn't find anything that converted my existing tiddlers over to an >>> equivalent TW5 function; that is, all the +++ and === syntax in TWClassic >>> had to be reworked more or less manually, if I recall correctly. >>> >>> Also, I should warn you that the word "Slider" has gotten used for >>> multiple functions, so searching for it leads down some dead-ends. >>> >>> There are various solutions though. What I ended up choosing is >>> TElmiger's Details Widget, discussed in this thread: >>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/sRUVnlIaT3E >>> >>> You can find more info here: https://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#DetailsWidget >>> >>> It's not nearly as quick to deploy on the fly (in terms of typing out >>> markdown like +++ and ===), but the tradeoff is that it's more powerful, at >>> least for my purposes. >>> >>> I'll post this for now, in case you want to check that out. Meanwhile, >>> others might chime in with what works for them, and I'll also keep an eye >>> out for follow-up questions. >>> >>> -Springer >>> >>> On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 5:01:15 PM UTC-5 Alvin wrote: >>> >>>> I'm a long-time user of ClassicTW, and I'm trying to start using TW5. >>>> One of my favorite plugins was NestedSliderPlugin, but of course it >>>> doesn't >>>> work in TW5, and I'm not sure I would understand how to install it if it >>>> did. Is there a TW5 replacement? If so, how would I install it? And, for >>>> that matter, would I use it the same way? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/VJKh0H8N7eo/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c05bf8ea-a1b2-4e68-98e0-aa4c99105ed6n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c05bf8ea-a1b2-4e68-98e0-aa4c99105ed6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/31fea46e-5f7b-48ee-aa93-e12d8925559bn%40googlegroups.com.
