Chris,
 Is there a new version? Is it in the same link?


Best wishes
Mohammad


On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 5:27 PM clutterstack <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mohammad,
>
> Hmm. That is disappointing!
>
> Did you try it after my last post here? The newer iteration is much faster
> than the first. (A peripheral lesson here is: update version numbers no
> matter what! I was in a rush to upload the faster version.)
>
> I see my latest version is returning duplicate results in the dropdown
> though, so there's at least one major bug. Maybe it'll be fast after I fix
> that! Haha. I will look some more at this later.
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> Best,
> Chris
> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 5:06:33 AM UTC-5 Mohammad wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>>
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