Shavinder, Thanks for pointing out the link to Eric's site: http://www.tiddlytools.com/insideTW/
Very useful. Marl On Feb 11, 11:49 am, 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
