I would expand on my specific usage, but after the first response (I am definitely not at developer level) I modified my approach a little and discovered I can get most of what I want with a ShowTabsForTiddlers macro. I am probably going to have some questions about it later! Thanks for all the responses, and Tobias, I think your solution would work perfectly if I was still using that method.
Trey On Apr 26, 7:49 am, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > I think Jeremy has a nice approach in TW5 [1]. May be one could steal > from there :) It's an alpha, but anyway. It's about ideas. > > -m > > [1]http://tiddlywiki.com/tiddlywiki5/ > > On Apr 26, 10:46 am, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/4f23e836f... > > > > I would like to be able to define two or more displayAreas and then > > > tell each tiddler which one to open in via a tag. > > > For my project, I'd like to also be able to tell certain displayAreas > > > to only show one tiddler at a time, but that's gravy. > > > > Is this possible using modern tiddlyWiki technology? > > > Hello Trey, > > > This doesn't sound impossible. However, I don't think I have come a > > across a solution that provides this out of the box. > > > Would those second(ary) displayAreas (have to) be "full featured" > > ones? For example, would they also have (to have) a toolbar, a tagging > > box or a tags box, and would one have to ensure that it is being > > visible when opnened, etc... ? If not, it seems straight forward to > > implement a plugin/macro that would allow one to wikify any tiddler's > > content into a preconfigured DOM-node ...which would also cover your > > "only one at a time" scenario. > > > Something like... > > > <<ibox InfoTiddlerA infobox>> > > > ..which would render a link that when clicked wikifies "InfoTiddlerA" > > into a div or span with an ID of "infobox", which - if not specified - > > might fall back to some default called "ibox". > > > Would you mind expanding on your precise usecase? What I mean is not a > > description in TiddlyWiki lingo about how you think of implementing it > > but rather what exactly it is you are trying to achieve and why. For > > example, as in the example above, I could imagine a kind of "infobox" > > or "helpbox", into which related info were rendered upon clicking a > > certain link, or maybe automatically once a certain tagged tiddler > > opens, etc... > > > 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.

