Thanks, Tones. I will be interested to hear it when you are ready to make
your plans public.
I've been working on the "edit in a temp tiddler" thing and made some big
ugly macros that do the job swimmingly. I should be able to get the app
converted over to using temp tiddlers for editing, in general, soon.
On Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 3:43:11 AM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote:
> Ed,
> A long answer is there are ways to edit the current tiddler, even without
> a temp tiddler. I am building a solution which does this now, it involves a
> little gymnastics and is hard to explain with too many different aspects to
> it. I will eventually publish something.
>
> One handy way is to have a tiddler dedicated to editing other tiddlers. In
> there you select the tiddler you want to edit, and all your editing takes
> place on the not visible selected tiddler.
>
> Regards
> Tones
>
> On Wednesday, 7 July 2021 at 23:25:01 UTC+10 Ed Heil wrote:
>
>> This is all great info, and clearly what I need to do. I didn't realize
>> that there was special behavior for $:/temp tiddlers with respect to
>> saving. (The only mention I can find on tiddlywiki.com is in "Naming of
>> System Tiddlers" which I thought was just about naming conventions, not
>> names which trigger special behavior.) Now I've got to figure out whether
>> it's doable to fix my app piecemeal -- which has tons of editing fields
>> which act directly on the tiddler they're on -- or whether I need to
>> somehow start over with a temp-tiddler-based editing flow. Ah well. You
>> live and learn.
>>
>> Thanks again for pointing me at $:/temp.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 2:09:13 AM UTC-4 PMario wrote:
>>
>>> uups forgot something,
>>> Clicking the [OK] button will work the other way around. Clone temp ->
>>> form and delete the temp.
>>> The edittext-widgets tiddler parameter will need to be a variable. ...
>>> depending on which tiddler is active atm. form or temp
>>> -m
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8:06:28 AM UTC+2 PMario wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 4:29:30 AM UTC+2 Ed Heil wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, TW, PMario. What defines a temporary tiddler for these
>>>>> purposes? Being under $:/temp/ ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. ... It depends how your form looks like and how the tiddler you
>>>> need looks like. I would define a view-mode for the form, where the edit
>>>> fields are not active, but show the content of the "form tiddler". This
>>>> can be done with the "disabled" parameter since 5.1.23. ...
>>>>
>>>> A button eg: [Config] will copy the "form tiddler" into the "temp
>>>> tiddler". If the temp tiddler exists, the "disabled" state will be
>>>> switched
>>>> to "no" and the values can be changed. [OK] [Cancel] buttons that replaces
>>>> the [Config] button will be shown.
>>>>
>>>> Cloning the "form tiddler" can be done with ActionCreateTiddlerWidget,
>>>> which has $template and $overwrite params since 5.1.22
>>>>
>>>> A disabled filter can look like this: disabled={{{
>>>> [[$:/temp/form]is[tiddler]then[no]else[yes]] }}}
>>>>
>>>> hope that helps
>>>> -mario
>>>>
>>>>
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