Hi guys,
Thanks again for the feedback. I've finally got around to updating the
plugin to incorporate several of your suggestions. Hopefully this helps
make the plugin more useful! I'm open to more ideas if anyone has any.
[Plugin Update to 1.0.8]
1. Made the "root tag" select-able to populate the right side of the
menu.
2. The height of grouped links on the right side of the menu is now
limited. If there are more links then the vertical space of the menu allows
for, a scrollbar will appear in that group to prevent them from growing
overly large.
3. Added sorting to all the lists by title.
- Note that in the right portion of the menu, the group name that
matches the current selection (which is for tiddlers tagged with only
that
tag) will still always be the last.
4. Changed the default state tiddler to be prefixed by $:\temp to
prevent the save button from lighting up while navigating the menu.
Github Repo: https://github.com/jc-ose/MegaMenu
Demo: https://jc-ose.github.io/MegaMenu/
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 2:13:33 PM UTC-4 History Buff wrote:
> I have a suggestion as far as scrolling goes. When using megamenu and the
> list of tiddlers is long, it would be nice to see individual scrollbars for
> each box on the right side instead of a single scroll bar and then have the
> "title" of each box "sticky" so that it is always on the top like you have
> on the left pane. This applies to simplemenu as well. I'm not sure how
> difficult that would be to implement, but thought I'd mention it.
>
> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 10:48:16 AM UTC-7 History Buff wrote:
>
>> I just started using simplemenu this morning and I like it. It does
>> exactly what I want when I put it in a template tidder and use the current
>> tiddler as the main tag. I don't have quite as much time on it as I do
>> megamenu so will continue to play around and comment further.
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 10:00:53 AM UTC-7 History Buff wrote:
>>
>>> I echo Mat's points as well. Showing the right panes for the primary tag
>>> would be very useful for me. I envision having this in a template tiddler
>>> where it would use the current tiddler as the primary tag.
>>>
>>> I played around some more with it. I have a primary tag that has 1813
>>> tiddlers tagged to it. There was some performance slow down, but a simple
>>> filter in the advanced search tab does performs similarly. I had no way to
>>> precisely time it, but it did seem a tad slower than putting a filter in
>>> the advanced search tab to list all 1813 tiddlers.
>>>
>>> I was able to play around with the speed of the animation and had some
>>> fun with that. I think it would also be helpful to have a tooltip show the
>>> meaning of the buttons when you hover over them.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 9:54:12 AM UTC-7 jc-ose wrote:
>>>
>>>> *History Buff, *
>>>>
>>>> That's a very good point about using $:/temp for the state tiddler.
>>>> When I get a chance I think I'll update the default state tiddler to use
>>>> that prefix, because the save button constantly lighting up is not ideal.
>>>>
>>>> *Mat, *
>>>>
>>>> To your first point, I completely understand where you are coming from.
>>>> I wasn't sure if it would make it confusing if that were also a clickable
>>>> option, but it probably makes more sense for it to be. I'll experiment
>>>> with
>>>> that some and make an update in the near future.
>>>>
>>>> To your second point, I like the look of that! I don't think changing
>>>> the styling of the tiddler containing the menu is within the scope of this
>>>> plugin, but I can consider taking away some of the outer borders like you
>>>> did to reduce the number of boxes. I'll consider that a bit as well.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for checking it out and for the feedback!
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 4:00:01 AM UTC-4 Mat wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is very interesting. A main wiki of mine is my "household wiki"
>>>>> which is very scattered in topics (shopping lists, reference lists,
>>>>> emergency stuff etc etc) and your creation might make it easier to
>>>>> navigate
>>>>> within one such space at a time.
>>>>> Two thoughts:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) After clicking a menu item (e.g Tiddler A) I don't find a way to go
>>>>> back to primary Tag level. I was expecting that clicking "Primary Tag" in
>>>>> the menu would trigger the view just like clicking "Tiddler A" in the
>>>>> menu.
>>>>> Also the breadcrumb "Primary Tag" does not bring back that view, which I
>>>>> also expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) This is a case where the default tiddler frame is a visually
>>>>> redundant, even distracting. Below is a mockup image of an alternative
>>>>> view. This is possible by styling backgrounds etc to be transparent, e.g
>>>>> conditionally for tiddlers tagged, say, MegaMenu.
>>>>>
>>>>> <:-)
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: mega2.png]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 1:55:59 AM UTC+2 jc-ose wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to introduce a plugin I’ve been working on called MegaMenu. It
>>>>>> provides a macro that generates a menu you can use for navigating your
>>>>>> wiki. It is inspired by "megamenu’s" used by websites that have very
>>>>>> large
>>>>>> catalogues and/or many pages that you can navigate to. My hope is that
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> your wiki grows, you can continue to use this menu and it should scale
>>>>>> well
>>>>>> without making navigation any more difficult. At its core, it captures
>>>>>> relationships between tiddlers (through tags) similarly to how the
>>>>>> built-in
>>>>>> tableofcontents macro works. However it does this in a neat interface
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> goes one step further by attempting to group links together that have
>>>>>> multiple tags in common.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: MegaMenuImg.png]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It shows three levels of links at any time with the possibility to
>>>>>> dive deeper using various controls.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is my first public plugin I’ve written for the community, so I’m
>>>>>> very interested in what you think and if you have ideas for how it could
>>>>>> potentially be improved. My hope is that this is intuitive to use. Also,
>>>>>> just keep in mind that this uses functionality in TW version 5.1.23, so
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> will need that version (or later) for the menu to work correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recommend giving it a try first on TiddlyWiki.com to see it in
>>>>>> action!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Github Repo: https://github.com/jc-ose/MegaMenu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Demo: https://jc-ose.github.io/MegaMenu/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some final thoughts: I am not a developer, so it’s possible that I’ve
>>>>>> missed some cross-browser compatibility bits to the css, but in my
>>>>>> limited
>>>>>> testing it seems to work well. It should work on mobile too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know what you think!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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