Hi Chris, Great to see you are improving macro-variable ! I tried to experiment with Sample <https://clutterstack.github.io/can-tw/clutterstack-TW5-com/#%24%3A%2FCommander:%24%3A%2FCommander%20%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fcan%2Fshowmacrodef%20%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fcan%2Fselector> you provided
To reproduce 1. In commander Combo Search I entered \define 2. Commander returned 60 matches 3. Under the Defs tab I entered testCreate 4. After a while I see the dropdown returns some outputs and let me choose a variable to show Yes, as you wrote in your post it is pretty slow! Best wishes Mohammad On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:06 AM clutterstack <[email protected]> wrote: > For Mohammad: I am still wading through the mess I made, but I made a tab > for Tiddler Commander you can try here > <https://clutterstack.github.io/can-tw/clutterstack-TW5-com/#%24%3A%2FCommander:%24%3A%2FCommander%20%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fcan%2Fshowmacrodef%20%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fcan%2Fselector>. > This is *totally not ready for prime time and will probably not stay in > this wiki *but I'd be interested in your feedback as to how you'd like > something like this to work. > > There are two plugins at the moment, to make this work: "selector" and > "showmacrodef". One gives me a macro for a dropdown selector. The other > gives me a JavaScript widget and a JS macro, for displaying a variable's > definition/value and a sample macrocall (if applicable), respectively, as > well as a tool that makes a tab for Tiddler Commander to inspect for > variable definitions within a filtered list of tiddlers. There is a tiddler > that will do something similar without having Commander installed, but it's > not finished. > > The Commander tab does something like this, starting with the searchfilter > from the top part of the Commander UI: > > You type into the selector and it looks through those tiddlers for lines > with "\define ", followed by something that contains the user input, > followed by "(". From that, it rebuilds the macro name on that line. Each > macro name it deduces from this, it lists in the dropdown as a selection > option. > > Once you select a macro name, it returns a list of the tiddlers that > contain a "\define" line for that macro name. Note that it's possible for a > tiddler to have a line like that, but NOT be defining anything (e.g. within > a code block). To check, you choose the tiddler with a radio button, and > the macro gives you a display. > > Here's where it checks that there's a macro definition in the selected > tiddler: it redefines that macro using a set widget, then imports the > variables from the candidate source tiddler. If the macro now has a > definition, then that tiddler had a real definition in it, and this is > displayed using the aforementioned JS widget. > > I note that the filter in the dropdown interface is pretty slow. Right now > it's showing all candidate source tiddlers in the dropdown...maybe not a > good tradeoff performance- and space-wise. > > Any feedback welcome. > > Best, > Chris > > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 11:27:10 AM UTC-5 clutterstack wrote: > >> Thanks, David. >> >> On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 6:09:13 PM UTC-5 David Gifford wrote: >> >>> Added this to the toolmap, both in the "Understanding TiddlyWiki" >>> section and the "Advanced / developer" section >>> >>> On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 2:17:25 PM UTC-6 clutterstack wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I was playing with dropdowns and...things...and I built something that >>>> I wished I had last summer, and which will help me keep track of current >>>> variable and macro definitions/values. >>>> >>>> A first version to play with is at >>>> https://clutterstack.github.io/can-tw/clutterstack-TW5-com/#Inspect%20variable%20and%20macro%20definitions >>>> >>>> It's not perfect, but I'm kind of pleased. Also not documented or >>>> packaged. >>>> >>>> I ended up writing two javascript macros to access variables and their >>>> properties -- if I could have done this using filters, I'd love to know >>>> what I missed! I didn't just want to search tiddlers for "\define" etc, >>>> because sometimes I put that stuff in code blocks as content. >>>> >>>> Also, if there was a pre-existing public solution for this, I'd also >>>> like to see it. There must be a few out there, at least in private wikis. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Chris >>>> >>> -- > 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/439a2708-886a-4d28-9988-1e14678c11f9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/439a2708-886a-4d28-9988-1e14678c11f9n%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/CAAV1gMARupxrpw8VTS7ESoDpSq%3DmJwi-RhFAnO4k77Km%2BZSdCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
