I have had Firebug installed for over a year, and only used it a few times. . . (no real success or understanding) Recently got some advise for inspecting elements (CSS) and it was very handy
regretfully I don't have an example to explore, my thought was that my confusion / lack of knowledge in Firebug might be a good learning experience for everyone. . . I have recently seen an increase in posts referencing Firebug usage, which sparked my interest, possibly indicating that a few of the power users are using it and getting useful results. Thanks for the feedback / interest :P Mike On Feb 11, 3:15 am, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a firebug screencast or two would be helpful. > I've used it to in pretty much the same way as points 1-4, but 5 is beyond > me. > > Could do a screencast about hanging the color of an element of a tiddler. > I've got the energy and am interested in the TiddlyComunity as some kind of > self organizing emergent knowledge structure. > > Mike, you asked the original question. Is there a real problem we could > start with as an example for "Shavinder's five uses" ? > > Alex > > On 11 February 2010 02:49, shavinder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have used firebug in past some years. Some of the uses are: > > > 1. to inspect DOM in order to find out what div.class and div.id I > > need to target and manipulate for formatting TW. > > 2. to actually try out changing the css attribute values in the live > > DOM before including them in a Styling tiddler. > > 3. to inspect DOM in order to find out what divs and their classes do > > what in a TW interface, like what is a displayArea and what is a > > tiddlylinkExisting etc > > 4. to run short lines of javascript code from console line just to see > > their effect before actually including them into an inline script > > 5. to debug inline script by sending flag values to console.log of > > firebug. > > > Besides firebug another tool which is indispensible when it comes to > > any coding in TW is Eric Shulman'shttp://www.tiddlytools.com/insideTW/ > > > -shavinder > > > On Feb 11, 2:26 am, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just thinking out loud. So much of the code that you're likely to want > > > to edit is stored in tiddlers as plugins or systemConfig code which > > > gets evaluated *after* the core code has loaded. So I don't think you > > > can find it in the FireBug code window. Anyway, I wasn't able to use > > > FireBug on any of the code I was writing. But maybe there's some > > > special technique. I suppose it would be possible to temporarily park > > > code in the Markup section so that it would get evaluated like "real" > > > javascript. Then move it to its containing tiddler once its been > > > debugged. > > > > Mostly I've used FB to help me see what styles TW is applying. In the > > > code itself I use alerts to let me know where the code is executing, > > > and what key variables have been set to. I've found in other > > > environments that debuggers often gets in your way more than they > > > help. > > > > Mark > > > > On Feb 11, 4:09 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Looking for a TW experts point of view on how to use Firebug with > > > > TW. . . > > > > > Not sure if anyone has the time or energy to put something together, > > > > but I think it would be a good contribution to the general knowledge > > > > base. This also would be a good resource for people learning how to > > > > troubleshoot and write their own scripts / macros / plugins. > > > > > Slowly making all of us users into mini experts :P > > > > > Any Thoughts? > > > > > Mike > > > -- > > 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]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > --http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- 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.
