And there it is: A How To Prototype: An edit toolbar button to add
widgets to a tiddler <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/mPNm85b87-Q>
On Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 1:32:13 PM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> 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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