Thanks Mike, I'll take a look at what you've done and will see if it can be adapted to my needs. One question I have right off the bat is can I change the macro so that I can drag from a Windows Explorer window and not a browser window? It's not a huge inconvenience, but am curious as to whether that could be done.
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 12:00:59 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > There is some complications with a tiddlywiki on an http:// site and > displaying file:// type URLs but so long as the tiddlywiki is on your > filesystem, it can display both http:// and file:// URIs. > > I put together a convenience tool > <https://sextant.space/#DropCanonicalURI> for making canonical_uri > tiddlers and tagging them for future sorting. So just open up the local > directory of images in a browser window (file:///<home directory of > pictures>) and then you can drag and drop the links one at a time into the > zone that DropCanonicalURI sets up. It will assign the mime-type that you > set and tag the resulting tiddler with the name of the tidder that contains > the macro. Browsers are not picky about the specific image type so long as > you select one with the "image/" prefix ... so with a mix of jpgs and pngs, > you should be able to just pick one and go with it. If I had the time, I > could likely make it more clever and pick a good guess at a mime-type based > on file extension ... but for now it is manual. > > The ListHere <https://sextant.space/#ListHere> macro and DropHere > <https://sextant.space/#DropHere> functionality might be useful to use in > conjunction with this for further sorting/tagging/displaying. The DropHere > isn't a macro unto itself since you would want to wrap it around some > element that you want to make into a dropzone. But the example inside > should get to going. > > Hope you can put these to some use. > > /Mike > > On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 2:33:51 PM UTC-3 History Buff wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am building a TW to organize all of our family photos. So far, I've >> been doing everything by hand which is a tad tedious. I'm wondering if >> there might be a way to use the import mechanism a little differently than >> what I think is currently available (at least as far as I have found). >> >> What I would like to do is to click an import button which would pull up >> a file picker. I would then pick my image that I wanted to use, but instead >> of importing the image as an external image tiddler, I would like to >> basically only import a path to the image such that I can use that path in >> creating my own external links and formatting them any way that I choose. I >> don't know enough about the import mechanism yet to understand if this is >> even possible or how to go about it. >> >> Any thoughts or ideas? >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> > -- 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/8ea1d7b5-31ee-4b31-8297-88de78fcd553n%40googlegroups.com.
