Thanks for your reply. Let's see... >A) Which parts of what you wrote exist and which are in the "I would love >that" category?
Everything exists in VBA. Lots of stuff. >B) Are you sure you're setting the right scope for TiddlyWiki? >You seem to be setting very high (/way too high?!) expectations >as to what you want to do with TiddlyWiki. Maybe. It's a Web page and a front end. Increasingly I am seeing more and more things done in Web pages (and software/tech in general) that people just assumed couldn't be done. So my approach this time around is no to worry about if it *can* be done, but to focus on what would I *like* the app to do, and then worry about how to make that happen. It's kind of dumb and counter-intuitive but how else do people come up with these new capabilities? :-) >C) When you say 'embedding', you would not mean in binary form, would >you? I guess what you mean is some form of "application frame" >loading, for example, a Spreadsheet (stored on your filesystem) into >the display area above or below a tiddler, right? By embedding I mean inside a tiddler. Example tiddly ml for the body might be: <BODY> !Expenses Some text<br> <<MyExcelPlugin width="100%" height="600px" file="c:\mypath \myfile.xls">> !Abstract more text </BODY> and Excel, with the document open, shows up inbetween "Some text" and "Abstract" at the size specified. I am not sure what you mean by binary form or application frame - whatever works! :-) >D) I have never heard of anything like that. Do you have that working? >Is there a browser plugin required that allows you to run Excel or >Word or Access in ...IE, FF, where? You could embed Active-X controls in IE pages, not sure how it would be done in Firefox (or even if). >E) There are adaptors that allow TiddlyWiki to search in Excel >spreadsheets, really? I could swear I saw some kind of "search local files" plugin that included support for Word (DOC, RTF), Excel, and some other file types. I was tearing through sites trying to find some info so I don't know where I may have seen this and won't have time to backtrack. In any case, Javascript in TiddlyWiki can read & write files on the local system right? So it would just be a case of writing code to do binary read or write to a file, and support the file type (Excel, Word or whatever). But to embed an Excel file I think I am looking more to somehow embed the existing application at the specified point in the tiddler in the browser. Keep in mind I've hacked around with TiddlyWiki but am in no way an expert on this or modern Web programming. I have seen a lot of stuff done however that would make me think it should be possible. Thanks again! On Oct 12, 7:21 pm, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > A) Which parts of what you wrote exist and which are in the "I would > love that" category? > > B) Are you sure you're setting the right scope for TiddlyWiki? You > seem to be setting very high (/way too high?!) expectations as to what > you want to do with TiddlyWiki. > > C) When you say 'embedding', you would not mean in binary form, would > you? I guess what you mean is some form of "application frame" > loading, for example, a Spreadsheet (stored on your filesystem) into > the display area above or below a tiddler, right? > > D) I have never heard of anything like that. Do you have that working? > Is there a browser plugin required that allows you to run Excel or > Word or Access in ...IE, FF, where? > > E) There are adaptors that allow TiddlyWiki to search in Excel > spreadsheets, really? > > Cheers, Tobias. -- 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.
