I've got this idea festering:
Add a select widget to the Editor Toolbar, a "insert a widget" widget.
Populate this select widget with a list of "canned" wikitext for
pre-configured widgets.
Every single item in the select widget will insert, at the cursor location,
the wikitext for the relevant pre-configured widget.
Each pre-configured widget will have "tiddler" parameter set to the macro
<<GetDataTid>>
The code for the GetDataTid macro:
\define GetDataTid()
{{{ [<dataTid>is[tiddler]] [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[ Data]] +[first[]] }}}
\end
For any widget in a tiddler without the variable <dataTid> defined,
GetDataTid will say the Data Tiddler for whatever widget is the title of a
tiddler = the current tiddler with suffix " Data" added.
If <dataTid> is defined and is a valid tiddler, then GetDataTid will say
the Data Tiddler for whatever widget is the title specified by <dataTid>.
So as long as I always use the "select widget" widget in the editor
toolbar, I should stop running into problems.
Maybe?
On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 10:50:54 PM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> I have been bitten by this one too many times. This wouldn't happen if I
> did not so stubbornly preferred data tiddlers for storing data values,
> instead of using tiddler fields.
>
> But, dang it: I really like data tiddlers for some strange reason.
>
> As I setup EditText widgets in some tiddler (let's call this a "Form"
> tiddler) to maintain values stored in a data tiddler, I often make a
> mistake setting up one or more widgets in a way that winds up blowing away
> the content of the "Form" tiddler.
>
> As a trivial/ridiculous simulation that duplicates my regular
> self-inflicted drop-kick through the goalposts of life, create a new
> tiddler with the following content:
>
> [image: Screenshot 2021-04-16 10.41.02 PM.png]
>
> Save that tiddler and type some letter key on your keyboard in this text
> field. Wham. Now the tiddler looks something like the following (with
> the field "bub" set to whatever key ):
>
> [image: Screenshot 2021-04-16 10.25.18 PM.png]
>
> Is there some way for me to tell TiddlyWiki: never allow "index" to be
> used with tiddler = currentTiddler (either explicitly set or implicitly
> assumed) for any widget?
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