> lines?). in the plugins, i have been able to successfully edit some > basic things like the background color of the hover menu buttons, but > have been unable to figure out other things that i want to change > (like how to get the togo text field to be the same pixel length as > the search text field). Dont change the plugins for changing 'appearances'. What you need is to learn a bit of CSS. and then you can put your CSS in stylesheet and change your backgrounds, colors, size of text everything. Most of everything that need a different look can be changed using CSS. Learning CSS is quite fun actually. But you need a tool like firefox plugin firebug for that (to do it easily and in fun way). I am not sure what available for your OS, but google around, there must be something web-developers are using on MACs which is akin to firebug. In addition to this, if you have too much on your hands put off learning javascript right now. Much can be accomplished by using various plugins and asking for help on this group.
Another suggestion, if you are stuck with an old operating system you can try something different without touching your hard disk. Have you thought of installing a linux on a pen drive? There are many linuxes which can be installed on a 2GB pen drive and you can boot up from the pen drive and benefit from the latest distro. Ubuntu, Puppylinux are 2 which are quite easy to install. Ubuntu comes bundled with Firefox and you can work on your tiddlywiki easily. You can continue saving your files on your hard disk as well as your pen drive. Almost all linuxes come with live CDs. Thats a CD which you can try-run before.installing the operating system to a drive. hope this helps On Oct 25, 12:38 am, sanna <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, lovely people - > > i'm quite new to the tiddlywiki community. i've already thanked jeremy > ruston, but would like to take a moment to thank all of you who have > made so many plugins, macros, written so much documentation, answered > questions i didn't even know i had on your various websites, showed me > so many things that tiddlywiki can do, welcomed me into this community > without even knowing i was here yet, and so on. i love how tiddlywiki > basically solves all the issues of what i want a computer to do for me > all in one place, and i love that there are so many ways to tweak the > file to make it even more how i want it to look and work. > > i started my first tiddlywiki file (and now have two already!) 20 days > ago, and have read through a lot of the tw beginner documentation all > over to have a pretty good base to be starting from. i've fiddled with > my tiddlywikis to the point where i've been through every shadowed > tiddler and tweaked the contents (except for the don't-mess-with > stylesheets) such that the layout and the aesthetics are basically to > my liking. > > but(!), and you could probably see this coming, now i want more! i > feel like at this point that i want to be able to do things to my > tiddlywiki that i'm not finding how to do in the beginner > documentation websites. i've been to tiddlywiki.org and have not been > able to find the answers to the now-current questions i have, so i > thought i would post them here, and see what answers you all might > have. > > first off, i am currently (sadly) running OS X 10.3.9 and will be able > to get to my update discs soon, (to be running at least 10.4 or maybe > 10.5) but for the moment i am traveling, and am not able to update > this computer yet. because of the old OS, i've been running into some > script problems when i visit some of your sites... for instance, when > i go to tiddlytools, i get a warning error saying one of the scripts > won't work, and do i want to continue or stop the script? either way i > do it, i am still able to view the site and find the plugins i am > looking for, but that is one example of how some javascript stuff > isn't working for me on this old OS. google docs also can be read, but > not edited, for instance. > > second off, i have basic html skills/knowledge, and have built > websites from scratch before, but am totally unfamiliar with > javascript coding (except that i think that it is the coding that has > a lot of if/then variables, and has periods in front of command > lines?). in the plugins, i have been able to successfully edit some > basic things like the background color of the hover menu buttons, but > have been unable to figure out other things that i want to change > (like how to get the togo text field to be the same pixel length as > the search text field). even when i don't touch the plugin to try to > change anything, i've only been able to get some plugins and macros to > successfully work for me (is this possibly due to the old OS?). > > [plugins i have been able to get to work: Goto, HoverMenu, > IntelliTagger, SuppressEmtpyTags, TagCloud, Tagger (kind of), > TiddlersBar, ToggleSideBar, and FontSize ... plugins i have not been > able to get to work ForEachTiddler, Calendar, Drag, Splashscreen, and > some others i don't remember because i deleted them when i couldn't > get them to work.] > > so, with all of that in mind, my questions are: > > + can anyone recommend good tutorials or documentation for a total > (but reasonably bright and interested) javascript beginner to better > understand what (the heck) she's looking at when she is in the back of > the plugins and source codes? at this point i'm not really interested > in trying to write my own plugins, but would like to be able to know > what they mean, at least generally. > > + does anyone know about any good tiddlywiki intermediate > documentation? the tiddlywiki for the rest of us 'advanced users' > information is already stuff that makes sense and is familiar to me, > and i am having a hard time navigating the tiddlywiki.org site to find > what i am looking for... my plan is to (continue to) go through the > table of contents there, and just skim or read each entry for new > information, but that will be a mishmash of beginner, intermediate, > and advanced documentation, as well as beyond-advanced (developer) > documentation... so it would be nice to find a spot that is > specifically for people who understand the tiddly toddler stage, but > who aren't playing tiddly basketball yet. as it were. > > + i am wanting to get my new tiddlers to open with no text prompt in > them. i can't find a way to do that in the shadowed tiddlers, though i > found the command that seems to reference the text prompt. where can i > edit that command? the search function didn't find it for me... is > that something i would have to do from the source code? i have yet to > look at the source code... can i open my local tiddlywiki file in an > html editor so as to change the source code without messing with my > text content? or ?? > > + i am also wanting to get certain new tiddlers to open with certain > text prompting already in it (basically an 'open new worksheet' link > that would open a new tiddler that already had certain text i'd > written, and then blanks i could fill in, which would not be text > field form boxes, but would just start a new line, if that makes > sense). i assume i would have to do something like find where the 'new > journal' command lives, copy that, call it something else like 'new > worksheet,' copy the code but change the default text to have the > content i want, and then put a <<newWorksheet>> command in the > sidebar. is this in the source code also? is there a plugin that does > this for me? i kind of thought i'd seen something that does this the > first time i was perusing tiddly vault, but since then, i haven't been > able to find it. i guess the 'add contact info' plugin(s?) would also > be similar, but twab seems pretty complicated, at least in that it has > multiple tiddlers to import. > > + i am able to get the sidebar to toggle, but am unable to get it to > default to 'hide.' i followed what i understood of the documentation, > but it hasn't worked for me so far. is this the kind of thing i should > ask about here, or is it better protocol to email the person who wrote > the plugin code directly? > > + i'm not getting the 'embed twitter feed' script to work, even though > i am using exactly what twitter spit out for me when i followed their > instructions... is this likely due to my old OS, or do i need a > special plugin to get something like that to work properly? > > + i am sure i have loads of other questions, but for the moment, that > seems like a plenty long enough start. :) > > hope you all are well! thanks so much! > > sanna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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