Thanks for your reply Eric!
It seems to me that, except for your specific, narrowly-defined use
> case, most people will still use the "common/manual" method of
> embedding images.
>
You're right, people will still need the common/manual methods. But I think
my "quick'n dirty"proposal actually isn't that narrow if you consider how
often an image at the bottom would simply suffice... especially if appears
there almost automatically. Besides, it doesn't conflict with the existing
methods.
needing some kind of image viewer to differentiate the files.
>
Well, there is the built in image (thumbnail) display mode in folders.
Surely this is the case for all OS'es but I think even for the more popular
cloud storages.
> > Then, in //tiddler template//, perhaps at bottom, theres a
> > > {{{[img[localpath/tiddlername]]}}} where the localpath is hard coded
> but
> > > the tiddlername is a generic 'current' reference.
>
> It seems like you are proposing to embed local path information within
> the ViewTemplate. The purpose of the ViewTemplate is to control the
> *layout* of the rendered tiddler (and also sometimes to trigger macros
> that have side effects, so that programmed actions can occur whenever
> a tiddler is displayed). To define configuration values that are used
> throughout the document and need to persist across sessions, you
> should store them as slices within the SystemSettings tiddler. (see
> http://tiddlywiki.com/#PersistentOptions)
>
Thank you! Forgive a non-coder but I have some questions:
1) Why would the images in my suggestion need to 'persist across sessions'?
ViewTemplate is loaded each session and thereby the images, no?
2) For the simplest user case, as per my proposal, I guess there would be a
direct image link(?) ie: [img[file:///<path>/currenttiddlertitle.png]]
2a) ...is that a macro call? (I thought macro calls are in the format
<<macro>> ?)
2b) Is this what I should put in SystemSettings... and as a slice? I know
what a slice is but I don't understand how it applies here.
2c) How would I refer to the current tiddler title, generically?
Again, thank you.
I think
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