Hi Tobias Thank you for the offer of help, much appreciated.
I've found that the toughest parts of developing a Firefox extension are wading through obsolete documentation and getting set up for debugging. There's a lot of mechanisms in Firefox that are important to extension development (eg XUL and XPCOM) but don't feature in conventional web development, so there's a lot to learn, too. I've been avoiding getting to grips with dialogue box support, but TiddlyFox really needs a proper confirmation bar (rather than an alert) and a preferences dialogue. The approach I was thinking of for implementing snipping functionality in TiddlyFox is to take advantage of the fact that TiddlyFox can "see" all loaded TiddlyWiki documents, in any tab. Thus it would be possible for TiddlyFox to inject a tiddler into a chosen TiddlyWiki instance (triggering autosave if enabled). It could also automatically load the chosen TW file into a tab if needed. My understanding was that TiddlySnip worked differently, by modifying the chosen TW file directly. Personally I'd favour storing the plain text selection in the tiddler, along with a link, and not attempt to handle HTML. Best wishes Jeremy On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > If a window of opportunity opens up, I'd gladly (try to) join-in to create > a junction of TiddlyFox and TiddlySnip with options to... > > 1. snip while directly navigating to the target TW with the new > tiddler being opened in edit mode (in a new browser tab / window) > - preferably compatible to tiddlyspace / tiddlyweb > 2. silently snip using a datestamp and predefined tags, e.g. 'inbox' > 3. snip using a dialogue in the form of a page overlay > > I fear though that 'snipping' may either involve some form of html2tid > conversion or wrapping snipped html content using the *<html>* wiki > markup which may, after all, not be a bad design choice, especially not in > terms of agile development. Anyhow, a kind of live-preview, may be > beneficial (and thus likely require a TW for it to work). > > *Beware*: My current knowledge of Firefox/Chrome plugins equals zilch but > I imagine that being a matter of a 1h-10h tutorial (assuming some guidance > lurking about). > > Cheers, Tobias. > > > *NB*: If any creator of TiddlySnip is reading this thread: Have you > considered (yet) merging (the current) TiddlyFox (code)? > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
