Running a wiki inside tiddlydesktop will give you more local rights. I am confident others have solved this problem previously.
Regards Tones On Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 06:56:30 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > 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/b821c631-a877-4b69-84fc-f50b8463c25fn%40googlegroups.com.
