Thanks for your replies. >Would you mind sharing what specifically you use this for?
Sure, there are a few things including 1. embed an Excel spreadsheet (and the actual Excel application) in a tiddler, not just to have a realtime editable table but also a) use Excel interface & functions (my preferred interface for tabular data, colleagues already know Excel) b) access to custom VBA code, formulas, macros & forms (which I have a lot of) without having to recreate them c) access all of Excel's other native functionality (existing charts, reports, etc.) d) spreadsheet can be treated just like any other tiddler (taggable, can save in StorySaver plugin, etc.) e) spreadsheet would be searchable as a tiddler: I think TW has a plugin to search various file types including Excel. However it returns a list of matching files. I would prefer it to return a list of tiddlers, where each tiddler has the associated spreadsheet embedded in it. f) it will be convenient for spreadsheet to show up in the same window as inline editable content along with the other tiddlers 2. ditto for Access. a) be able to create a tiddler as a "view" - ie link a tiddler to a certain SQL query, or a certain form in Access, etc, and attach tags to it. b) use TiddlyWiki as the front end for Access DB c) people interacting with Access through some other interface can update TiddlyWiki from their app d) TiddlyWiki becomes another data source for some external app (people can query tiddlers or other data in TiddlyWiki from their app) e) ability to reuse already written VBA code for TiddlyWiki, instead of having to rewrite in JavaScript 3. embed WAV, flash, etc. files in TiddlyWiki. However I think the PlayerPlugin should work fine for this, though I have some questions I can put in a separate post. 4. Specify some custom editor for a specific tiddler's content. I found the Externalize plug-in which would be a solution for simple text, but can't get it 100% working, and I'm not sure how to get it to do everything I want (I will post separately about that). For security purposes I think you should be able to specify that the browser should ONLY run or embed "myprogram.exe" for "mytiddlywiki.html" on the user's local machine? Hope this helps... Thanks again. PS this is not Tony, I only quoted Tony's post in my own because it was an earlier discussion related to my question : ) 0 On Oct 11, 5:56 pm, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > For obvious security reasons, this really should not work in any > browser that gives a damn about your computer's health. I really > wonder how come it does. > > At first, clicking on any of the links when looking at... > > http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html > > ...did one of two things: > > in Firefox: absolutely nothing > in Internet Explorer: hello bluescreen > > But now that I have rebooted, downloaded that wiki and locally > modified the paths in the macro tiddler to the correct locations on my > xp installation ...it actually does start the processes! > > Big ouch! I mean, how terrifying is that?! > > This is so inviting to anything malicious that it's rather painful to > see it work. At least, thinking that a dynamically loaded library > could run stuff on my machine with this is not what I would call > comforting ...or can it not? > > So, topmost priority for any TiddlyWiki that you run locally and which > makes use of this is to NEVER load any javascript from a remote server > into such a TiddlyWiki or to have plugins installed that contact > remote servers to load stuff on demand. > > Other than that, if you're 100% certain about what you're > doing ...this is really cool stuff allowing you to mix and match > TiddlyWiki information management with your local files and > applications corresponding to your tiddlers content, esp. in > combination with FileDropPlugin [1]. > > As for your question, I simply created a windows link that runs a > program with certain parameters and, of course, shudder, it executed. > > When it comes to white spaces or other special characters in a path/ > filename ...well, don't use them. > > Would you mind sharing what specifically you use this for? > > Cheers, Tobias. > > [1]http://tiddlytools.com/#FileDropPlugin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
