Hi Dave, Thanks for the fast reply. I'll have a look at your 5notes. It is one of the best ways to learn: looking at others solutions.
Cheers, Ton On Monday, September 30, 2013 4:31:23 PM UTC+2, David Gifford wrote: > > I will only address the last item. It is already possible to do a topmenu. > See here: http://giffmex.org/5notes.htm > > The three tiddlers I adjusted were $:/TopSideBar, > $:/core/ui/PageTemplate<http://giffmex.org/5notes.htm#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FPageTemplate>and > > $:/StyleSheet <http://giffmex.org/5notes.htm#%24%3A%2FStyleSheet> > > Cheers! > > Dave > > On Monday, September 30, 2013 9:21:54 AM UTC-5, Ton Gerner wrote: >> >> When I first started with TW5 I thought: "What a waste of space". >> When you open TW5 fullscreen on a widescreen monitor you see the open >> tiddlers at the left (the "story river"), the Sidebar in the middle and a >> very empty gray space at the right. >> >> For sure I am biased. In all my TWc wikis there is no left sidebar ("main >> menu") visible, the right sidebar can be toggled invisible/visible , I use >> a "top menu" containing a search box and the most used commands and the >> rest of the space is for tiddler content. And I use often nested tabs, >> where these tabs are "part of my TWs TOC". >> Some use cases are given in the thread about my question about a 'tabs' >> macro in TW5: >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/fA23Z6qtQE8/VWCSE-vcWA0J >> >> So I am playing around with TW5, digging in the styles and so on trying >> to mimic my TWc wikis. >> >> The layout of TW5 looks like 2 'frames' besides each other: left the >> "story river" and at the right the Sidebar with "page controls" that can be >> scrolled separately. >> In $:/ControlPanel/ThemeTweaks the Story right and Story width are set >> at 770px. This gives the behavior as mentioned in the first paragraph. >> Here you can e.g. reverse the right sidebar and the story river. >> >> This brings up the following questions: >> 1) Is it or will it be possible in future to do it the other way around: >> counting from the right side instead of counting from the left side? >> 2) Is it or will it be possible in future to do it more "dynamically", >> e.g. at the right a fixed width for the right sidebar (counting from the >> right) and the rest of the screen window filled automatically (tiddler >> width = screen width minus right sidebar)? >> 3) Is it or will it be possible in future to toggle the right sidebar >> on/off (dynamically adjusting the story river)? >> >> Looking at the $:/core/ui/PageTemplate I saw 2 optional bars: >> {{$:/TopSideBar}} >> {{$:/LeftSideBar}} >> >> So I tried to make a top menu with the new tiddler, control panel and >> save buttons in it, by copying the button code from the >> $:/core/ui/PageTemplate >> into the $:/TopSideBar tiddler. >> Thus the $:/TopSideBar contains: >> <div class="tw-page-controls"> >> <$button message="tw-new-tiddler" >> class="btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/new-button}}</$button><$link >> to="$:/ControlPanel">{{$:/core/images/options-button}}</$link><$button >> message="tw-save-wiki" >> class="btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/save-button}}</$button> >> </div> >> >> The buttons are shown and do work in the $:/TopSideBar tiddler itself. >> Via the transclusion of $:/TopSideBar in the $:/core/ui/PageTemplate the >> "button images" show up in the top left corner of the screen but they do >> not work as buttons. >> I also noted the button images scroll together with the open tiddlers and >> not with the sidebar as I expected. >> After fiddling with styles (copied from the >> $:/core/templates/static.template.css) I ended with a working set of >> buttons at the top of the page but then I could not access the tiddlers >> and/or right sidebar anymore! >> So at the moment it is beyond my (very basic) knowledge of CSS ;) >> >> Question: Is it or will it be possible in future to add a top menu - in >> an easy way? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ton >> > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
