There must be a way but I'm not sure how to get the path information when you drag and drop a file from a file manager. It doesn't seem to end up in <<actionTiddler>> like a URL/link drag from a browser does.
You also might have to fight with the normal import handler. Being able to import just the URI of the file rather than the file itself with a checkbox would be a useful RFE to the normal import mechanism but extending that is beyond me at the moment. /Mike On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 5:40:27 PM UTC-3 History Buff wrote: > 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/9f152f76-117a-45df-8416-c29825120a6bn%40googlegroups.com.
